Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Keir Leslie,
People can't afford to be out of jobs for six months. That has to be the realistic goal: to restore some kind of a functioning economy to Christchurch within the next three-six months.
Yes. I wonder if somebody can shed any light on the university side of things. Adelaide offered to take Christchurch students yesterday. Had other NZ universities done the same? And if not, why not? Are arrangements in place with Adelaide to maintain the links with Canterbury Uni? There's going to be a damn fine line there between supporting and poaching and I wonder if anybody has a view or information on this.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The local anarchists are organised.
As they always are.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Andre Alessi,
But people aren't going to hang around for a year waiting for their workplaces to be rebuilt. It's all well and good to want to use Christchurch as a model for "City of the Future!" (insert Simpsons "Monorail" reference here) but there's no point building a city where half the population has had to move away to other cities to find work before it's done.
The reconstruction is going to boost the economy, I think we can all agree on that, but it will benefit industry sectors unequally. I would hope that part of the tax take from the great infrastructure projects ahead will be invested in making the city livable in and workable in, which is going to be hard but has been done before in other countries. And really nobody can afford to be out of work for 5, 10 or 15 years, so temporary provisions will have to be made regardless of the time frame.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Refugee City sounds like it's somewhat hard to get at, at least in places, and the circumstances don't lend themselves to easy explanations in 20-second sound-bites.
I know plenty of journalists who have no qualms going into actual war zones, let alone places that look like war zones. Plus if you're looking for the story that somebody else doesn't have, you go where your colleagues aren't. And there is a lot of local knowledge amongst local journalists, they're not exactly airlifted in from overseas. So again I must ask - why did it take a blogger?
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
The quotes Steve provided support his case, don't they?
Yes. And one could point out that Housing New Zealand residents had already been neglected in September, and by the same national and local government - so it's not exactly a wild theory.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
but attributing it to callous indifference to the plebs on the part of Brownlee or anyone else is neither true nor fair.
Am I the only one who thinks that may be a story there, and that it may be just as much about the media as the institutional response?
Why did it take a blogger to make everyone notice? What were journalists doing? I'm not for attributing callous indifference to the plebs without actual knowledge, but I hope that somebody is looking into this.
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The Herald has thrown the question of whether Christchurch should host its world cup games to the Your Views crowd. Way to stay classy.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The latest from Women's Refuge:
Police have reported 138 domestic violence related incidents since Tuesday. We continue to work closely with other south island Refuges who have taken on the crisis and 0800 REFUGE support to our five Christchurch Refuges. Some have noticed an increase in crisis calls although not all are related to domestic violence so we refer them to other forms of help.
Our plan in the short term is to co-ordinate Refuge volunteers from out of town to support the work required in Christchurch. We are working on a system with Housing NZ and CYF to assist us to have Refuge services 60-80% operational in the short term. But most importantly we are supporting our Christchurch Refuge workers to have the space to deal with their own issues. In the words of one of the first trauma support workers on the scene, “Some of our Refuge workers have lost family or friends, not to mention their homes. They have families who are traumatised, friends who are traumatised; they themselves are traumatised and trying to operate in a community that is traumatised.”
Immediate needs for our Refuges are:
• Cash – 100% of which will be sent directly to the Refuges in Christchurch
• Petrol vouchers
• Phone top ups
• Sanitising materials
• Baby formula and food
• WATERIf you are able to help we would appreciate an online donation using your credit card via the website www.womensrefuge.org.nz and in the comments box, write Chch earthquake fund.
If you would like to donate by cheque or send petrol vouchers or phone top up cards please make a note it is for Christchurch and post to:
Women’s Refuge
PO Box 6350
Marion Square
WellingtonIf you would like to donate any of the other goods please email info@refuge.org.nz to be advised about how to do this.
You can also get regular updates from our Facebook page, search for "Women's Refuge Christchurch Earthquake Response"
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Hard News: Mind Blending, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
but you're one off those people given to flashy entrances
Yup, that's Jack all over.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Stephen Judd,
The stuff about Refugee City is very, very worrying. Read the whole thing, I just excerpt a part here.
Emma posted this earlier - heartening to see that the Herald has republished it.