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2 days ago
Excellent cartoon by @rodemmerson | As I keep saying. David’s Shearer’s speech last November was a game-changer. We are now talking about how rather than if the government intervenes in the housing market.
National have made some baby steps towards intervention, which is great to see, as well as taking some counter-productive steps - but nobody can deny the debate has changed.
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2 days agoThe most powerful man in Christchurch, the most oblivious man on twitter | @edmuzik
Key was in the city today, visiting rebuild sites, and announcing the winner of a design competition for a playground. Across on the other side of town, the Phillipstown community was protesting the government’s decision to merge them with Woolston school. There were a number of politicians there – including Port Hills MP Ruth Dyson (Woolston school is in Port Hills), Lianne Dalziel, councillors Yani Johanson and Glenn Livingstone, as well as political studies lecturer Bronwyn Hayward. Notable by her absence was the MP who actually represents the area, Nick Wagner. She was tagging as though she was John Key’s mullet – slightly behind, decades out of date, completely useless.
A justifiably angry and frustrated post from James Dann, who articulates how I think a growing number of Cantabrians are feeling.
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2 days ago
#Chch SCIRT works notice: replacing sections of stormwater main along Centaurus Road between number 193 and number 207.
Work will start on Monday 27 May and continue until Saturday 22 June 2013.
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3 days agoHuntsbury Avenue - Huntsbury #Chch - drainage installation
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3 days agoCanCern's Open letter to Gerry Brownlee
I was moved to tears watching the Campbell Live piece on the EQC caravan. It was supposed to make us better off than the rest of the world when it came to natural disasters, but instead we are held captive.
CanCERN has solutions but they’ve never been seriously listened to.
Remember, it’s Gerry Brownlee who is actually in charge of EQC - he is the Minister responsible.
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3 days agoJohn Key wants to sell our assets #Chch
It is the Government (and the NZRFU insisting on the giant covered stadium, not the Council or the people of Christchurch.
The CERA legislation means the Council has to support (by not doing anything inconsistent with the Blueprint) the anchor projects, so it is the government’s fault that the Council is mortgaging our future in such a big way.
Rather than imposing a rate rise directly on the city, the government is using the CERA legislation to force the Council to either sell assets or raise rates.
The only fair option is to let the Council have complete freedom to decide - but that means the ball rests in the court of Brownlee and Key.
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5 days ago"Relationship to other instruments
(1)The instruments to which this subsection applies, so far as they relate to greater Christchurch, must not be inconsistent with a Recovery Plan approved by the Minister.
(2)Subsection (1) applies to—
(a)annual plans, long-term plans, and triennial agreements under the Local Government Act 2002, except a funding impact statement in an annual plan or a long-term plan:
(b)regional land transport strategies and regional land transport programmes under the Land Transport Management Act 2003:"- Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act, Section 26 #Chch #EQNZ -
6 days agoOn the Press frontpage re Waltham Housing Development
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1 week ago"
[I am asking] New Zealanders right across the country actually to go without so that money can go into Christchurch as a priority.
At a micro level yes there are always hard luck stories and they are very genuine but I think you’ve also got to take a step back and say at an overall level, because it’s not always possible to address every single point and when you look at precedent risk and everything else, the government really has truly stepped up.
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1 week agoBallooning CERA costs
Keith Ngs tool shows the costs of the Frame and the government’s contribution to Anchor Projects are immense.
