Maybe people should deal with facts.
The order is here - simple to find and public record
https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search...Number=4300439
The $1k was not for the remote - it was for
Much of what the tenant applied for wasn't given - the tenant didn't prove all their case (often happens).
Read the order then decide if it is reasonable, on balance, or not - don't just rely on a newspaper report (any landlord will tell you that they feel these are generally biased, the bias, though, depends on the narrative the paper is trying to give).
I still can't work out what this has to do with Labour but I may have missed some part of the thread?