Hard News: It's not funny because it's our money
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Sacha, in reply to
Genter is addressing it now
Quite - here she is from today's general debate.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Quite – here she is from today’s general debate.
And here is Brownlee with those caring thoughts for Cantabrians, none.
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merc,
Awe. (Genter clip).
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From Sofie's Brownlee link,,,
"We probably buy a lot of nails as well, you buy a lot of things," Brownlee said. .
So, he bites his nail too?.
Earlier this week, Fletcher Building's chief executive Jonathan Ling denied claims from the Council of Trade Unions that it's profiting from cutting rates for painters and plasterers by about 20 per cent to $19 a square meter.
New Zealand's largest construction company said it is simply a matter of supply and demand, with the supply of people greater than the amount of work, while CTU president Helen Kelly has labeled it "an abuse of contracted labour."
More greed, more workers than work in Christchurch my arse.
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webweaver, in reply to
Gosh - I think I have a girlcrush on Ms Genter - that general debate speech is really spot-on.
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
You see one reason they're dragging the clearance/rebuild out? Keep wages down, make bigger profits.
(For instance, if they blew up all the hazardous buildings a year ago, as they're doing with this one, most of the CBD could have been reopened.)
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How did Fukushima handle its insurance claims, given it managed to rebuild relatively quickly despite the massive costs? Insurance gridlock seems to be the big bottleneck in ChCh.
The City That Sued God, indeed.
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Go Julie Anne ! In the first video she holds Brownlee to task over what is clearly an ideological road-building programme. My take on the RONS is that they are there to improve property values and lifestyle options for those that have the money to invest in lifestyle blocks.
In the second video, she extends her herself into the territory of being a high-performing "Shadow Minister". This is exactly what the Greens need to prove we are ready to govern. I'm keen to see what else Julie Anne is going to deliver.
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Sacha, in reply to
perfectly understandable :)
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Sacha, in reply to
I expect great things. That's a nice feeling.
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This is what the big guy really wanted to say and how he wanted to say it:
Is that Lockwood Smith playing the pink pasiley telecaster at 1.18 or thereabouts - worth a look.
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The most not funny jokes have to be the Pacific Rim free trade agreement with the US dictating NZ Law and the Judge to hear the Dot Com extradition stepping aside.
at last week's NetHui conference, Judge Harvey cited a tweet by journalist Russell Brown: "We have met the enemy and he is [the] US."
That referred to a quote by American cartoonist Walt Kelly - "We have met the enemy and he is us" - in an argument over international copyright. - NZ Newswire 18/07/2012
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Gerry regularly gets a pasting now in question time, and rightly so. I'm hoping we can get to the bottom of this response pretty soon as well.
Phil Twyford: Did his predecessor intervene on behalf of Infratil to pressure the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, and, subsequently, Auckland Transport, and the Land Transport New Zealand boards to allow the Snapper card to be rolled out in advance of the integrated ticketing system?
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE: No, that is not my understanding. The member may want to take that up with Auckland Transport.
Not exactly an outright denial that there hasn't been political interference in the integrated ticketing fiasco in Auckland... Phil Twyford probably has good reason to ask the Auditor-General to investigate.
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Sacha, in reply to
the Judge
Russell |is writing a post about that one, he says.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Russell |is writing a post about that one, he says.
Looking forward to it, because this is a plot that thickens so steadily that I suspect somebody's cornflour silo may have sprung a leak.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Looking forward to it, because this is a plot that thickens so steadily that I suspect somebody’s cornflour silo may have sprung a leak.
I've been swigging cough syrup for the last three days and it still doesn't make any sense. Never a good sign.
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That really is a terrific speech by Julie Ann Genter. Logical, constructive and fact based. Everything Brownlee isn't.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
You see one reason they’re dragging the clearance/rebuild out? Keep wages down, make bigger profits.
Dragging the rebuild out increases their fees if it makes the work cost more. Keeping wages down, however, will reduce their "profits" since they're being paid a percentage-of-costs fee rather than getting a lump sump and doling it out with their fee being whatever margin remains.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
Terry Baucher, about an hour ago
That really is a terrific speech by Julie Ann Genter. Logical, constructive and fact based. Everything the current National government isn’t.
There, fixed that for you.
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Hebe, in reply to
More greed, more workers than work in Christchurch my arse.
Close family member is working for a EQR contractor. Work is not steady -- gaps of a week or two at times. He is not paid for down times, supplies his own tools, works on contract, self-employed so he covers all taxes, ACC etc. He's not getting rich, sometimes he's not getting by. When the rebuild of residential houses happens, work will happen more steadily. but the money will be in working long hours, not in the hourly rate.
Peter Townsend of the CECC mentioned a couple of weeks ago as an aside in a news story that the requirement for workers could be as low as 7500, not the 20 or 30,000 often quoted.
The rebuild is a decades-long project: in general the plan seems to be first under 100k repairs on TC1 and TC2 land, then rebuilding homes on good land, then in over five years repairs and rebuilds on more difficult land, meanwhile the CBD commercial reconstruction happening, but much more slowly.
The CBD is not Christchurch , many seem to be assuming that the CBD is integral to people living here: it's not. We're here, working, living, going to school, we have all changed where and how we do the stuff of life. 80 per cent of the buildings in the CBD will come down: even if they are repairable the land underneath means the seismic work required makes demo a better option for many owners.
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Hebe, in reply to
You see one reason they’re dragging the clearance/rebuild out? Keep wages down, make bigger profits.
(For instance, if they blew up all the hazardous buildings a year ago, as they’re doing with this one, most of the CBD could have been reopened.)
I'm happy that the rebuild is slower than the council and pollies try to make out; there's more chance of better buildings and a better city. If it were all rebuilt now the place would be appalling -- insurers are not in the business of green, or pretty when it comes to rebuilds.
As for the explosion option, the three males in the house are rapt: better than a Crusaders win apparently. We'll be watching.
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Hebe,
Apologies to all for the threadjack: Christchurch is the only thing about which I know anything of general interest to comment on these days apart from cats and teenagers. I read the rest. I'll try to keep it to the two tales of city thread so youse in the rest of the world can avoid it.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
As for the explosion option, the three males in the house are rapt: better than a Crusaders win apparently. We'll be watching.
Hopefully enjoying from a safe distance, whatever that might be. Hope to hell they know what they're doing, because sometimes they don't.
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mic weevil, in reply to
One of these days people will notice that the Greens are an exceptionally competent party.
And it is certainly a breath of fresh air to watch people engaging in the parliamentary process in good faith.
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Hebe, in reply to
Yep.
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