Posts by Che Tibby
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Rich Lock,
She lived through The Blitz, you see, so she knows what she’s talking about. Suffering is good for them. Toughens them up.
doesn't do too much to foster empathy though, apparently.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
True and I'm happy to try suitable alternatives. Suggestions?
the phrase most commonly used in wellington is Field-Marshall Brownlee.
i think it's the way it evokes a bulging jacket of fake medals that makes it ring so true.
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heh. i think if you want to know the average income of a suburb in CHCH, you could try
this link? or lift stuff off this page?
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
it sure as hell isn't too precise. especially when you're five years off the census and no more data for 2 years.
i was gobsmacked to see that schools in Newlands are apparently decile 9 and 10. must be all those rapidly bankrupting people in their leaky homes in Dress Circle.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
nah, i'm fairly certain it's the demographic of the school roll.
they work out from the roles where the parents live, then drawn average incomes from Census meshblocks.
this means that some meshblocks near the school could be entirely excluded.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Emma Hart,
@ross trick is it's not always the geography, a lot is the income of the parents.
you can have two schools next to each other with different demographics.
newlands where we live has heaps of state housing, but because the newer suburb over the back has heaps of richer public servants the decile of the local high-school is 9 (!!).
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
An alternative view is that three major disasters in one term is not auspicious.
the drafting of the budgets hasn't been that bad.
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OnPoint: On Price Gouging, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
that casts the wider profession into question.
i would question that it is a profession.
that is a little too close to regarding economics a science. when in fact is a social science
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Andrew Stevenson,
Should we expect to see a change in policy in Wellington as a result of what has happened in Christchurch?
good luck with that.
plenty of buildings here are death-traps, with no enforcement (AFAIK) of the need to earthquake strengthen.
witness that place on the corner of marion and vivian streets - a stack of concrete slabs resting on 6, rather thin, concrete poles and a central stairwell.
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also: the people behind eq.org.nz.
we'll need a list of these people ASAP, and send them big big loves. i've seen at least one tweet with people being helped by this (a diabetic getting insulin).
i saw @gnat talking about the idea on tuesday, but didn't make the connection.