Posts by Gareth Ward
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Yes, it's amazing to see the comments spark off about how this is going to make people who already own houses so wealthy, when if anyone actually read the speech or the Scoop releases now backing it up, they'd see that the shared equity scheme (a small part of the plan) is only for new builds.
Imagine it will look something like the UK model where new large-scale development projects have some percentage as affordable housing, and some of those are shared ownership with the government.
Not such a bad scheme all up. We seem to vacillate between urban design mania that demands high standards for anything built and limiting the creep of the city on the one hand, and clamouring for free-for-all-development with no costs or pesky restraints. Any walking of the middle ground is tough to pull off but this seems reasonable, if not ground-breaking. -
Looks like Ghet will be getting her housing affordability policy.
Slightly off-topic, but am curious how shared equity became the headline of that leaked speech - I read the full transcript and there is ONE sentence on it that is actually the 3rd or 4th point of the housing affordability section.
Understand if it was from an official release and the PM's office primed them - but presumedly with a leaked speech all you get is the transcript? So how did that become the huge thing - because now the Herald has led with it, it will become the scene-setter amongst all sides I should think...
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As I noted in reply to Jolisa's post, it says something about the viral impact of the video itself.
Very true - although I hadn't noticed it before the PA mafia referenced it, it feels like something we'll be seeing a lot of.
Points if they get it played on MTVAnd Super Tuesday will be interesting yet confusing - the various methodologies used in delegate counting (winner-takes-all, split delegates etc) combined with a seemingly tight Democratic race makes me think I'll be none the wiser come Average Wednesday
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And I now see is referenced on Ms Gracewoods blog today, and the speech referred to in Mr Slacks.
Always a step behind, aren't I?!
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Snap Rob!
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We were joking the other day about how, given Obama's cadence and style, there would be a generic-house/Public Enemy-style track sampling him at some point (ala MLK). And there it is, right on his site!
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__To date, that is possibly my perfect website. Milkshake reviews - I KNEW the interweb had a purpose...__
Awww cheers Gareth, we aim to please. And we're looking for more contributors. I mean, the Wellingtonista has a team of about 15...
Seriously - milkshake reviews! Magnificent.
Oh, and a nice vineyard you missed up by Matakana is Brick Bay. Nice little Noel Lane glass house stretched out over the lake and a sculpture trail up through the surrounding native bush... -
Aucklandista:
The eery Tanuki
MILKSHAKE REVIEWS
Wine
Big Day Out
Parnell Pools
Volcanoes
Noelle McCarthy
To date, that is possibly my perfect website. Milkshake reviews - I KNEW the interweb had a purpose... -
And off same site (linked through hiphopnz I believe he said):
but at least we got him at “the starting point” before he “jumped on the criminal treadmill”. aint that right lord mayor of Manukua city, Mr Brown.
Cuttingly accurate.
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The difference, of course, is that the Prime Minister gets to talk about things her government is doing, rather than what it would do if it got the chance.
And personally I have to be careful with this - I tend to respond a lot better to a positive message than a negative one, but it does lead to an unecessary bias to an incumbent government. Nothing puts me off like petty attacks about trivial asides, yet it is inevitable that an Opposition will need to be engaged in that more than the Government.
Still, yawn on both sides. Important enough issues and all, but not ground-breakingly different enough to wear the "State of the Nation" title that at least Key's speech was headed with.
And the "shagging wave" concept has similarities to the Freakonomics legalised abortion to lower crime rate statistic that sat just as awkwardly with me yet was hard to fault in it's logic.