250,000 people will be better off thats a great boost for them and the economy.Anyone disagree with that is with some weird sense of self entitlement; tough bikkies.
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What a sad story here
Report finds assault not substantiated
It noted the alleged victim and staffer had been in a consensual relationship for eight months at the time, but Dew noted that prior sexual consent did not mean consent was continuous. "However, [alleged victim's] recollection of material events about the evening in February 2018 was clearly incorrect. Her allegation was also inconsistent with her own numerous contemporaneous Facebook messages with the respondent during that month and in surrounding months."
Bank deposit insurance planned Yes yes yes.
"The Government would also give the Reserve Bank greater powers to monitor banks and hold directors and executives more accountable for their actions.
"New Zealand has a strong and stable banking system, but it is regulated by laws that are 30 years old. We're making sure they're up-to-date," Robertson said."
Rua Kēnana officially pardoned by Crown Long overdue but ,here.
"Rua Kēnana built a peaceful, religious community at Maungapōhatu in the heart of Te Urewera.
But the government grew suspicious of the Tūhoe prophet, and accused him of sedition for objecting to the conscription of Māori men into the armed forces.
In 1916 the government ordered more than 70 armed officers to invade his settlement, and later convicted him for 'moral resistance'."
Hold on - wasn't it Labour politicians like Little who requested that in sexual misconduct the burden of proof should be shifted to the alleged offender given that we need to trust the alleged victims? Guilty until proven innocent.
Quite ironic isn't it - that it was now somebody from Labour circles falsely accusing somebody of sexual misconduct. Under the by Little proposed policy the poor alleged offender would not have had a chance.
https://www.equaljusticeproject.co.n...-assault-cases
Lucky bastard Labour's proposal has not yet turned into law.
Was this the staffer that Mallard went after....publicly alleging rape? The guy that was in Ardern's office, was having to work from home because of the allegations, and Ardern said she wasn't aware of it? Mallard just might be a cooked duck here. As far as I remember he said that outside the house. Ardern also has further questions to answer. Not a whole lot of transparency with this lot is there? The media need to roast them both.
A whole lot of mud been throwing and look at the waste of resources and smearing peoples reputations let alone National pumping it for in an attempt to harm this govt, losers. A sad shameful story. No winners really, definitely some losers.
You can't deflect this one to National JT. That RNZ video in the link is very comprehensive. Nigel Haworth was also thrown on the scrap heap at the height of this mess. Cynical Cindy threw him under the bus to protect her own thin hide.
Dew said the complainants made allegations that were inconsistent with the facts, and it would even seem to go so far as someone somehow adding an attachment to an email after it was sent, then claiming the recipient must have received it. Bennett just seems to have been sucked in after the false accusers approached her.
Maybe we all have to break our TD's into $50K chunks just to be sure later on. Small insurance but still a good move from this gov't https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...banks-collapse
Yes an unreliable complainant with mental health issues (sad)who was in relationship with the man she accused.
Yesterday we visited a long term tenant of ours in Nelson. We advised her we were putting up her rent 4% after Christmas. She was really happy and told us that many of her friends that are tenants are experiencing +10% rental increases. Not sure many of them are happy with the Government. We simply had to do this to cover the increased cost we've experienced this year.
Still no comment on Mallard, Ardern and Haworth? Difficult isn't it? When your heroes let you (and the country) down.
Ardern's actions were of her own cynically motivated making. Mallard was trying to be seen as "woke". And poor old Haworth? It appears he was the only one doing things correctly, even telling the truth, and he is the one down the road. Meanwhile, expect more obsfucation from Cynical Cindy, the Minister of Transparency, and who knows what from Mallard.
Its a real pitty that H Clark could have asked herself at the time when she was in control, is there a chance that P Ellis is guilty of the B S charges, asking herself, " how can a man drive a car load of kids somewhere, when he has no drivers licence, no car or access to a car " ? a real dumb lady if you ask me !!!!
RNZ cover it well imo.
Sexual assault allegations against ex-Labour staffer 'not established'
Try reading other than some sorta superior reacting. I dont know the inner workings but it looks like he wasn't up to managing it correctly. Will leave conjecture and conspiracy theories to the usual bitter(at life) suspect.
The party's mishandling of the complaints ultimately forced the resignation of Nigel Haworth as party president at the height of the controversy.
It would appear he was handling the accusations quite properly. The police had already dismissed them. The guy worked in Ardern's own office! She says she wasn't aware! And you are trying to paint Haworth in the wrong? Ardern's Chief of Staff didn't inform her? She didn't wonder why the guy was working from home?
Cynical Cindy must even be getting some serious side-eye from the party machine here. Who is the next competent party official acting with integrity to be thrown under the bus?
You are so so cynical Jonu and remember cynical is as cynical does.
Are you capable of handling a person with a mental health issue, i know im not.
Hope you have someone who's brave enough to share xmas day with ,joyless as it maybe.best wishes.
Your true nature you mean.At least you are consistent and thats the sad part.
It was a media witch hunt from the start. The media were calling for Haworths resignation long before he resigned. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...legations?rm=a
Even the earlier so called “camp incident” has resulted in all charges being dismissed.
The extremely unbiased NZ media had a field day over both events.
You are just showing your political bias in your derogatory comments against the PM
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Not at all westerly. A leader of integrity would have stood by their Party President and now be exonerated. Instead she tossed him to the wolves.
I don't have skin in this game. I'm not enamoured with National either. But Cindy claims the moral high ground and is being proven to be among the most cynical and manipulative PM's we've had since Muldoon. And that's some company!
David Chaston on www.interest.co.nz doesn't score the Government highly on economic indicators summarising it like this :
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters last year claimed "one year on, and New Zealand has a brighter future" but the evidence is that their first year was a non-transformational toss-up, one where we simply marked time while other countries got further ahead. On the economic front, 2019 has not been a "year of delivery" either, one that has not transformed anything in the economic landscape. That claim turned out to be shallow wishful thinking, rather than heralding an actual political drive.
My view is that, based on the benchmarks above, we have gone from being a nondescript "quite good" to "decidedly average", and that is being generous. New Zealand should be able to do much better than that. It continues to be disappointing to keep on slipping back internationally.
Benchmarks from that one opinion looked good to me
RISING CONFIDENCE CONFIRMEDHard on the heals of the WestpacMM quarterly consumer confidence report, the ANZ-Roy Morgan onefor the month of December was out today and also recorded a lift in sentiment. Consumer confidence lifted +2 points in December to 123, its third consecutive increase and that is now above its historical average. The proportion of households who think it’s a good time to buy a major household item lifted another +3 points to 44%, a solid level.
$10b road safety spend up
And for once stating how many injuries will be saved , 5,600 and 750 deaths with "the road to zero "strategy. Median crash barriers a no brainer for one.
"There's just no question that under National our road toll got a lot worse at a time other countries were reducing theirs," Genter said.
"They redirected a lot or money from roads and road safety to a few urban motorway projects,"
"she said the increased investment will support new technology like drug testing equipment for police, 1000 kilometres of new median crash barriers, 1700 kilometres of other safety improvements like crash barriers and rumble strips, and 1500 intersection upgrades."
Dope testing, another new govt thing also coming in will indeed stop most of them.
I see David Clark now says Dunedin hospital will be smaller than first thought.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/d...esign-contract
"This week, planning for the new hospital hit its first snag when it was announced confirmation of the hospital site master plan — the decisions about the final size and shape of the complex — would be delayed.
Dr Clark said he expected the new hospital would probably be smaller than was first thought, although bigger than the present complex."
Should get Twyford on board to sort it out.
The roadside drug testing policy came about after a large petition from Karen Dow who lost her son Angus to a dope driving killer https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...esting-reopens.
Nick Smith fought this on her behalf in Parliament and finally managed to get Julie Ann Genter to do this despite early on finding all the excuses in the World not to
The $10B infrastructure spending on, so far unnamed projects, will no doubt include some of the
"roads of national significance" that were already approved by National and canceled by this Government when they came into power. They have not started one new large roading project in 2 years of Government.
The lowering of the speed limits is an ill thought out policy that will not make the roads any safer and will annoy many voters. Some of the road safety upgrades are however a good idea but so far, like so many other things from this Government, it is only talk.
'This week, planning for the new hospital hit its first snag when it was announced confirmation of the hospital site master plan — the decisions about the final size and shape of the complex — would be delayed.
Dr Clark said he expected the new hospital would probably be smaller than was first thought, although bigger than the present complex'.
I think rents have already been rising quite considerably as inflation is in the price of houses and rents are being driven by this.
I guess you agree with me that targeted inflation should be scrapped as it is creating distortions in society. Raising minimum wage is mucking around with the symptoms not addressing the actual problem. Same with the affordability of houses.
https://www.interest.co.nz/property/...rd-highs-being
"Rising house prices are pushing the dream of home ownership further out of reach for aspiring first home buyers, in spite of recent cuts to mortgage interest rates."
So what is sweet Jacinda going to do now?
She promised CGT - reneged on it when the heat got too hot in the kitchen.
She blamed foreign buyers (read China buyers) so banned them. But what the heck, prices are rising again at the bottom end! Did she read this one wrong?
She also promised Kiwibuild, remember?
FAIL, FAIL, FAIL.
CGT Michael Cullen's proposal may have scared the electorate too much. Jacinda is a politician and will follow the voters, much like Sir John Key when he was in power. I was very disappointed to hear her say she liked the universality of national super, to appease the boomers back at the last elections.
Did Labour extend the bright line test to 5 years? If so this was an increase in a type of capital gains tax.
The foreign buyer ban seemed to work for awhile, real estate agent were squirming in the paper a while back after saying prior to the ban, foreigners have little effect on the market. Maybe foreign buyers have found a loop hole, cousins already here could buy property for them etc etc. Do you think the reserve bank interest rate cut played a part? I don't follow mortgage interest rates but the article you linked discusses improved affordability which in this day and age means lower mortgage rates. Although dropping interest rates so people can take on even more debt doesn't sound like great news to me.
Kiwibuild, not sure where this is at, over promised, under delivered, I would imagine this would take a while to get systems going for a project of this scale. Haven't heard anything lately so assume it is a disaster.
I guess the question is whether you believe in Labour's interventionist approach or National's hands off approach whereby National could see no housing crisis and expected the markets would work it all out much better than a central government. People take responsibility for themselves and if they can't keep up with wealthy Chinese buyers in the Auckland housing market they could work something else out, like renting.
The markets would have sorted something else out by now for better or worse but this is pointless speculation as National lost the election.
No party is proposing to get rid of inflation targeting which in many ways I believe is a large part of the problem.
Not forgetting we were 70,000 plus houses plus short when the new Govt arrived.John Key"There is no housing crisis".
The new Government that promised to fix it all quickly but in 2 years have achieved none of it. To the contrary the so called “housing crisis” continues to get worse
Whatever it was, Jacinda was going to fix the problem double-quick - "Let's Do This' remember?
So why has the problem got worse? :t_down:
Surely it should have gotten better with the initiatives she promised, Kiwibuild, CGT and banning overseas buyers?
What happened? :t_down:
Where are all those 70,000 households living? Say 200,000 individuals. Even accounting for a few sleeping rough and those in motels, most are living somewhere.
New Zealand has a wide definition of homeless, including households temporarily sharing with family or friends. But even counting those (and that is at least partly debatable) comes nowhere near 70,000.
I do agree there is a crisis though, and much of it is due to the cumulative effect of tens of thousands of tenant names published each year by the Tenancy Tribunal for breaches, mainly rent arrears and/or damage. Most landlords are not stupid.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU19...not-better.htm
"We’ve updated our model and our estimates now show a chronic shortage of around 130,000 affordable homes. If things continue the way they are, the shortage will balloon to 150,000 this time next year."
Under Jacinda, housing crisis has nearly doubled in 2 years and will get worse.
Supporters of the "Let's Do This' leader, please explain.
Give me a Tryer over a Denier anyday.
I commend this Govt for at least trying.As they found out and as you know balance there are many roadblocks that do not make this easy, and we've posted quite alot on these redtapes. This will change and is, but there is no quick fix ,more incremental. BTW whats happened to your definitive property down turn statements, havnt we got 2 years to go according to the man on the ground?
Tryer?
No way she is a tryer.
Try BS artist.
And only star struck fools do not see her for who she really is.
Reneging on CGT and using BS initiatives* initially to bolster Kiwibuild numbers to hoodwink her admirers - good try, I guess but the rest of us are not fooled.
* Redesignating existing & already approved developments and bailing out developers.
The brutal truth is that NZ First opposed the CGT proposal. We can hardly blame the PM for that, blame the MMP system, perhaps.
Blame NZF - so easy and convenient on the singular biggest backdown and triple backflip on a Captain’s Call.
Not true of course.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/04/a...back_down.html
Another “unbalanced” post.
A quote from the same article “However, the growth in the shortfall of housing in the last year was the lowest since 2014 (see chart below). So, things are getting worse, but at a better rate. Not really that comforting. But given the rising run-rate of building consents we expect to see a slightly smaller shortage next year.” The associated graph shows a different story to what you say.
Get off your computer and get out in the fresh air. It will do you good :)
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The fresh air is always there to be enjoyed when appropriate.
Some of us have to work for a living.
And it actually does us a lot of good - we feel independent, confident, self-reliant, proud and above all, of value to our family and to society. :t_up:
Unlike the freeloading deniers (who never worked a day in the real world) so aptly pointed out by JT (ironical, isn't it) but who are so good at BS.:t_down:
Affordable homes? Are what exactly. Most places sell or rent reasonably fast, so affordable to someone. Apart from KiwiFail. If Kiwibank (in the article) want cheaper how do they propose persuading developers to build them? There are quite low priced apartments, even in Auckland, but lower priced are studios or one beddies, and even them not so cheap when body corp levies are added.
Been looking at apartments in Wellington for one of ours as a starter - too tiny for banks to lend, but even then BC levies close to $100pw.
Simple solutions - we have plenty of land so extend every city limit by 5 kms. Guarantee you that land prices will drop.
Bring in building techniques* & construction workers on temporary work visas from overseas.
Both are not going to happen as all NZ governments so far are beholden to vested interests.
* It is class A bull dust that NZ buildings have to be uniquely specified for our geological & earthquake conditions over here. Same sort of bull dust which brought NZ the leaky homes and buildings pancaking in Christchurch during its earthquakes.
I guess every house sold is affordable for the person who buys it? Although some houses may well become unaffordable to the owners after purchase. Just like every Rolls Royce can be said to be affordable for the person who buys it....
“The peasants have no bread” “Then they should eat brioche!” Comes to mind.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...ny-on-the-left
Never allow the loony left stay in power.
Cracking down on any form of dissent is in their DNA.
You and I, W69, have enough grey hair to make the best of any year, New Year honours or not!
Our dear beloved leader however is getting ever more detached from the star sparkling dust which used to blind all the journalists who are now calling her and her leftist troopers for who they are - hypocrites & shysters.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/09/1...m-its-mistakes
“His further comment, that the person leading the review "made it clear to the complainants that the party would never be the appropriate party to handle allegations of that nature and that they would need to be investigated by the police", raises a number of questions.
Why make that clear if there were no sexual assault allegations? Does that suggest such claims were levelled at the outset, but pushed aside?”
Cry, the beloved leader!
Looks like the two of us, W69, missed out the gongs again, despite our best efforts to steer what was a potentially transformative transparent accountable caring and decisive government under sweet Jacinda in the right direction?
Politics corrupt and all politicians seek absolute power so they can corrupt absolutely. :t_down:
Guess some things never change!
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/12/2...nda-continued/
"Jacinda is very skilled at empathising with questioners on any of these issues. “Yes, the figures are terrible aren’t they…”; “We can’t let this situation continue….”; “It’s just so awful…”; “As a country we must do better than this…” etc .
However, there is never any concrete policy to deal effectively with any of these issues (although in housing Labour has begun to move strongly in the right direction – eg reforming Housing New Zealand as a government department).
To put it bluntly I think Jacinda has perfected the political art of sounding good while saying nothing of substance."
The star dust is rapidly being recognized for dung dust.
Yep Balance we missed out on gongs again
See Carter and Campbell got something
But business people shouldn’t get these things - becoming rich from being in business should be enough of a reward.
Probably a lot more worthy. We in NZ seem to idolise our successful sports people, but for some reason successful businessmen are not give the same respect. If anything that is what is holding us back. We need to make more positive examples of where people have succeeded in business and give the younger generation another type of idol to aspire to.
John Kunkel is the guy who really runs Australia - do we have an equivalent in NZ
"Housing affordability was once only an Auckland and Queenstown problem. The latest QV data shows it spreading rapidly nationwide as a renewed spurt of house price increases take it to most urban centres":eek2:
Oh dear, what is sweet Jacinda going to do now to convince voters (especially those now waking up to her star dust filling their brains with bull **** dust) that she has a plan to make housing affordable?
1. Capital gains tax? Nope - she has done a massive U-turn and it's off the agenda forever as far as the cynical one his concerned.
2. Kiwibuild? Please do not mention that obscene word in her presence - it never existed.
3. Ban overseas buyers? Done and have had no effect on the market.
4. Build more houses? The deniers and apologists already claim that is happening but why are prices are going up?
https://www.interest.co.nz/property/...latest-qv-data
"While existing homeowners are getting a positive wealth effect, these sharp moves higher nationwide will bring Auckland's famous housing affordability problems to become a broader stress elsewhere. Prospective first home buyers may feel their opportunities slipping away. Low interest rates are no solution - they have been low all year, so rising prices now only mean purchase deposits have become a larger mountain to climb."
The year of delivery has become the year preceding the bull **** dust smoldering the deniers and apologists for sweet Jacinda.
Annual housing consents reach near 44-year high
Why are house prices going higher? Did you notice a 0.75% drop in the OCR in the last year? Thats why. Stupid bloody inflation targeting by making credit cheaper.. And you'll note thats not the PMs doing, thats the RBNZ.
Of course, I have an axe to grind - that's what this thread (read Labour/NZ First Government?) is surely about!
I made 4 points as to why this government has lost one of the major platforms (housing) it stood on to win the last election, and you countered on point 4 that it's not the PM's fault as it's the RBNZ?
Or are you just making an observation in which case, I misread your response.
Sales of local assets to foreigners reach highest level in 2019, under a Government fighting an election on "stopping asset sales". Instead 2019 saw approval numbers increase from 82 (2018) to 131 (2019) and the value rising from $10.1B to $17.1B.
Another complete fail to walk the talk from this useless Government
Yes, I pointed out that the construction rate of house was still increasing at least till the middle of this year and the RBNZ controls interest rates (to a degree), not the PM, then you came back with some hogwash question about what were interest rates doing during JKs govt. (they were mostly going sideways (after a huge drop post GFC) for the first 4 years, then RBNZ increased them for a year or so, then they held steady for a bit, then they dropped until National was kicked out) and house prices were rocketing for most of that time. Again, why is that relevant?
Not going to defend Labour, htey are **** and have to go. I just don't want National either.. they are no better.
Some underarm bowlers have a different view of our Prime Minister than many over here.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-...overy/11863254
Boop boop de do
Marilyn
Changes to LVRs also a big driver. Compare bank lending for rentals in 2016 to now (Reserve Bank report c31). Not that the LVR changes achieved the desired result in the property market - lower or stable prices basically.
Accommodation Supplement. Going by the number of rent arrears cases in the Tenancy
tribunal (tens of thousands a year) and not forgetting the tenants that are taken to non-published mediation or just get 90 days notice, not all tenants pay the AS to their landlord. When the AS came in it applied to private and public rentals. All tenants on the same footing and the private sector would provide for most tenants. Labour changed that, brought back income related rent subsidy for state tenants at 3 x the AS subsidy. Couple that with significant other costs and compliance on landlords, and not hard to predict what has happened.
Apart from rent subsidies, public housing is very expensive for the taxpayer to build, manage and maintain. Compare that with the cost to the taxpayer of providing private rentals.