Housing: Rental market Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Forget first-home buyers, the metric of success in the housing crisis is rental prices Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): New Zealanders react after Finance Minister Grant Robertson says tenants will ‘go looking elsewhere’ if landlords hike rents Rachel Sadler (Newshub): Housing crisis: Social media users
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23rd March 2021 Below is the latest tally of deaths recorded in Myanmar. The real death toll is actually much more than this due to the new tactics employed by the police and the Tatmadaw. Where possible, they are dragging the bodies away and disposing of them, not reporting back
Housing announcement Bryce Edwards (The Guardian): Targeting New Zealand’s property speculators is popular, but won’t fix the housing crisis Henry Cooke (Stuff): The bets the Government is making with its sprawling housing package Luke Malpass (Stuff): Labour takes its first big majority gambles on housing changes Bernard Hickey:
rt.com A Canadian man, involved in a legal battle over his right to object to hormone treatment for his teenage trans child, has reportedly been jailed and denied bail for violating a gag order banning him from discussing the story. Robert Hoogland was denied bail by the Vancouver Supreme
22nd March 2021 We start today with a T-shirt that has been designed to be worn, initially in private, but in public once the protestors win. Optimistic I know, but it makes its point. Below are some of the weapons employed against the civilians involved in the protest movement.
Housing Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): D-day for the Government’s plan to fix housing, with few easy options Rachel Sadler (Newshub): ‘Radical’ change needed to tackle New Zealand’s severe housing deprivation – political commentator David Hargreaves (Interest): Govt housing changes ‘won’t address the central problem in the housing crisis’
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Housing Jason Walls (Herald): Remedies for the hot housing market: What does Grant Robertson have up his sleeve? (paywalled) Jenee Tibshraeny (Interest): Treasury defends pace of Govt response to soaring house prices Michael Reddell (BusinessDesk): Revealed: The real cause of high house prices Richard Klipin (Herald): We need to change
On Monday the Prime Minister had a chance to do the right thing and announce a date when the trans-Tasman safe travel bubble will be open. She chose not to. Instead, she announced that she will soon announce an announcement of a date. Her Ministers don’t appear to
19th March 2021 I am a little short of information today, but I reproduce an article below in full which underlines what I have been saying would be a major cause of trouble for the coup leaders. If they manage to get the concept of a federal Burma off the
Government Inaction Will Cost Jobs and Livelihoods New Zealand’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell 2.9% over the year to Dec 2020. The largest annual fall ever in New Zealand. GDP per capita over the same period declined by 4.9%. In the last quarter of 2020 alone GDP
