Posts by Hilary Stace
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I think this is a good time to remember NZ's welfare state, particularly Giovanni's consideration of it.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
My understanding is that Luke is only about 11 or 12, so it's a pretty astute summary of the situation from a young person.
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How many people have tax accountants?
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Trevor Mallard seems to be enjoying the media response in a way that suggests the 'leak' was carefully stage managed.
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There's a Justice for Arie Smith Facebook Group. Also been a suggestion that we bombard Police National HQ with lightbulbs and remind them that it was an aspie who invented them. Michael Laws has written another of his sub-human diatribes.
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Just a reminder to watch the documentary on leaky homes tonight. My sister is the producer. It was her idea to document the saga and raise the funds to do so, and she has been working for years getting all the right people in front of the camera and getting it to screen. (It would have been nice to have her on Media7 as producers aren't often in front of the camera, but that's just family loyalty.)
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yes like a sloppy basin of water, after the harbour floor rose a few feet. And a tsunami on the south coast. Also lots of liquifaction (which is not a new word) on low lying parts of Wgtn. His new book, The Visitation (VUP) is about the 1848 Wgtn earthquake and probably just as fascinating. Of course it wasn't that easy for the people to leave in those days, so they just had to make the best of it. But they didn't build in brick or stone until that generation's memory had past.
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Just to go back in time - Rodney Grapes has a new book almost out on 'The visitation: the earthquakes of 1848 and the destruction of Wellington'. Promises lots of eyewitness accounts, geological context and consideration of possible future movement of the Wellington fault. Victoria University Press, $40. Heard him speak on Saturday about the 1855 Wellington earthquakes (Wairarapa fault). That one was over 8 and aftershocks, including large ones, went on for a year. Changed the shoreline. Fascinating. He has been studying this topic for decades.
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One thing that annoys me is that opponents of MMP also seem to want to get rid of a system whereby those not voted in on the electorate vote 'come back in again by the back door' meaning they come to parliament on the list. In Ohariu, for example, Peter Dunne won the FPP part of the election but three other candidates also became MPs on their party lists: Charles Chauvel, Gareth Hughes and Katrina Shanks (and which actually gives constituents a nice range of people to turn to for help if they need it). Under SM with its much smaller list, surely this could still happen if the candidates were also high on the much more limited party list. So they are deluded if they think voting out MMP for SM will change that. Am I right there?
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Sofie, re leaky homes, my sister has been working on a documentary on that issue (for years) which will be screened on TV1 on Wed 6 July, 9.30. Even the making of the doco has been an endless saga.