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Arohanui to you Hilary, and many thanks for sharing this.
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Speaker: Christchurch: how did it come…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
In the long run (i.e beyond the 2019 debt hump that we’re being massaged through at the moment) though, turning productive capital into unproductive capital (i.e a white elephant stadium etc) will mean that rates will inevitably have to rise to cover the loss of income. Asset sales aren’t magic – they just hide the cost for the time being.
This.
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Speaker: Christchurch: how did it come…, in reply to Hebe,
my understanding is that the council legal advice is that CCC cannot backtrack on the cost-sharing agreement with the government, no matter how much it and Christchurch people want to renegotiate it.
Gerry Brownlee could wave his hand and it would all go away. Except he won’t, that’s why he’s there. He has emergency powers to assist the people and the city, and he’s using those powers to do exactly the opposite.
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Speaker: Christchurch: how did it come…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
all points many have been making since day one
It's not like any of this has crept up on us. The National government cancelled our regional democracy and effectively also our city council via Gerry Brownlee, CERA, and the CCDU.
Anyone with half a brain can see the slow-motion trainwreck that's coming to the central city. The Central City "Blueprint" is poised to unleash even greater economic and civic disaster on the crippled city.
And while Dunedenites are screaming about rates rises from Dunedin's disastrous stadium project, no one in power seems able to hear.
Who benefits from asset sales in Chch? The same people who benefited from the sale of our power companies. Rich investors.
Chch is being forced to build facilities that Chch people don't want and haven't agreed to, with money they don't have.
Fuck that.
I love my beautiful hometown so much. The impotent rage I feel about what John Key's government is doing to it is beyond words.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Russell Brown,
I thought it was both. “What are the legitimate stories of genuine broad public inerest the other bastards aren’t telling, or telling well and in-depth?” Not only sounds like a good editorial imperative, but identifying a gap in the market you can fill.
The rest of the country had lost interest in Christchurch’s problems. Campbell used to actually get complaints about doing so much on Christchurch.
One of those times where important is not the same as popular.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Michael Meyers,
You’d think from reading the comments on PA that everyone in NZ believes Dirty Politics
Which parts of it do you think are untrue? To my knowledge no-one has ever shown Nicky Hager to be anything but totally rigorous. All his material is backed by a verifiable paper trail.
And that includes the book that embarrassed Helen Clark’s government, Seeds of Distrust . -
I'd also mention KidsCan and the recent txt-fundraising for Vanuatu. This shit is IMPORTANT.
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Without Campbell, who would know about the suffering and the struggles of people in post-eqnz Christchurch?
How can we quantify what it did for Chch people to be told "We haven't forgotten you"? -
I can’t understand why Gareth Morgan has taken this line about urban moggies. Feral cats, cats in reserve areas (or adjoining reserves) are one thing, but city cats are another. Why antagonise people like this? We know there’s evidence of net benefit to birdlife from pet cats in some urban areas because they kill rats. Even if they didn’t, do the cats do more harm to the native ecology and environment than the humans who live there?
Urban development and industrial-style monocultural farming have to take their share of blame for wrecking habitats and creating conditions hostile to our remaining native creatures.
Water pollution and the increased siphoning of available freshwater for irrigation signs the death warrant for species who need that habitat.
Not to mention 4WD enthusiasts who insist on driving on beaches and in riverbeds.
Humans are quite the pest species.
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Envirologue: The Power of N – Nutrient…, in reply to Mary,
Thanks Mary, I know it's been happening for a while. But once the Central Plains Water scheme gets going, things will get much, much worse for Canterbury land and water.