Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics

[John Nick]

How many Jack Daniels have you had today mate?

Ran out about 10am
You got any at your joint

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

He lost count after three bowls of cornflakes

I’m removing a house and have got the house movers all lined up for a couple of weeks time and then the council says we need building consent to remove it???

Should I sent them a plan of the finished work with a blank sheet of paper?

What are councils coming to?

 

[John Nick]

I’m removing a house and have got the house movers all lined up for a couple of weeks time and then the council says we need building consent to remove it???

Should I sent them a plan of the finished work with a blank sheet of paper?

What are councils coming to?

Did you get the Premier house Job??

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Hey are you guys getting the Israel discourse entering regular political discussion in NZ? Not so much the war but the wider influence in politics?

Starting to blow up in US and Aus.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Ran out about 10am
You got any at your joint

I’m sinking a rum as we speak.

Stinking hot day today, got fried in the sun and am really dehydrated. I need the whole bottle myself

 

[John Nick]

I’m sinking a rum as we speak.

Stinking hot day today, got fried in the sun and a really dehydrated. I need the whole bottle myself

That's not very friendly.
I could swap with some water.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Hey are you guys getting the Israel discourse entering regular political discussion in NZ? Not so much the war but the wider influence in politics?

Starting to blow up in US and Aus.

Pretty quiet here.

Occasional Palistine protesters making a scene in the local parks over weekends but I think everyone ignores them.

We live in a bubble in NZ and are pretty inward looking.

 

[Worried2Death]

Pretty quiet here.

Occasional Palistine protesters making a scene in the local parks over weekends but I think everyone ignores them.

We live in a bubble in NZ and are pretty inward looking.

Second this, not much that I've seen from our pollies and commentators

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Pretty quiet here.

Occasional Palistine protesters making a scene in the local parks over weekends but I think everyone ignores them.

We live in a bubble in NZ and are pretty inward looking.

Ukraine / Russias even quieter. Is it still on?

Once our media all close up we won’t know about anything outside our local rumour mill.

 

[miket12]

I’m removing a house and have got the house movers all lined up for a couple of weeks time and then the council says we need building consent to remove it???

Should I sent them a plan of the finished work with a blank sheet of paper?

What are councils coming to?

Unless it’s attached or is over three storeys high, it doesn’t require a building consent but some councils do require it get inspected before it’s removed to ensure all services have been removed.

From the Auckland Council site:
Under Exemption 30 of Schedule 1 of the Building Act 2004, a building consent is not required to remove a building from a site if it is a stand-alone building and is no more than three storeys high. This means that if you want to remove or demolish a building, a building consent is not required.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Pretty quiet here.

Occasional Palistine protesters making a scene in the local parks over weekends but I think everyone ignores them.

We live in a bubble in NZ and are pretty inward looking.

Ohhh. It’s all blowing up. Basically the Diddy lawsuit uncovered a link to Michael Jackson and a link to Epstein. The Epstein link of course is Israel and Jewish business connections. That’s turned into uncovering Israeli influence in US and foreign government.

It’s wild and goes on but even this, if you are a city or state employee in the United States you have to pledge to not criticise Israel…

The worrisome consequences of the US anti-BDS laws

With 35 states already banning the boycott of Israel, anti-BDS laws are now being used as templates for criminalising other forms of protest. A new documentary, Boycott, shows just how far-reaching and nefarious the threat is, writes Nada Elia.

www.newarab.com

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Unless it’s attached or is over three storeys high, it doesn’t require a building consent but some councils do require it get inspected before it’s removed to ensure all services have been removed.

From the Auckland Council site:
Under Exemption 30 of Schedule 1 of the Building Act 2004, a building consent is not required to remove a building from a site if it is a stand-alone building and is no more than three storeys high. This means that if you want to remove or demolish a building, a building consent is not required.

Awesome info thanks. Crazy.

They said if we demolish we can just submit a clean site form. But removing we need a building consent - the guy on the phone seemed unsure about why. I was just going to say we removed the reusable parts and demolished the rest. Now I can quote this!

 

[miket12]

Awesome info thanks. Crazy.

They said if we demolish we can just submit a clean site form. But removing we need a building consent - the guy on the phone seemed unsure about why. I was just going to say we removed the reusable parts and demolished the rest. Now I can quote this!

If it’s going on to a removal companies yard, that wouldn’t need a consent but if you were moving it either on the site or to a new site, that work to site it would need a consent. TBH, quite a bit of the time, building officers say something will need a consent if they don’t know the answer.

 

[MaybeTop8]

What instruction did he give them?

Otago University law professor Andrew Geddis:

"The term 'directions' isn't then specified in the Act. But it would be something like a minister perhaps writing to TVNZ or someone within TVNZ, saying, 'I want your programmes to look more like this'.”

He continued: "It probably needs to be something which is that formal and direct to really fall afoul of that legal prohibition."

Seems you know better… or is it your bias?

The issue here is the media commenting on stories about the media where they have a conflict of interest. That’s where you get bias!

The issue is authoritarian wannabe politicians openly attacking nz citizens publicly for their own gain

 

[miket12]

While you’d like to think that most landlords would look after their tenants to help protect the value of their investments, this woman (I’m actually thinking of much stronger language but don’t want to be banned) is an absolute slumlord. I think she should be forced to live for at least 12 months in the conditions she expected her tenants to live in!!!

Maggots, rats, poo on the walls: Tenants paid up to $600pw at 'disgusting' lodge

The lodge owner says: 'You can't please everyone'.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[Lord Gnome of Waiheke]

100 day plan implemented.

Economy deteriorating already.

No surplus this term now.

Luxterfuck.

 

[dean]

While you’d like to think that most landlords would look after their tenants to help protect the value of their investments, this woman (I’m actually thinking of much stronger language but don’t want to be banned) is an absolute slumlord. I think she should be forced to live for at least 12 months in the conditions she expected her tenants to live in!!!

Maggots, rats, poo on the walls: Tenants paid up to $600pw at 'disgusting' lodge

The lodge owner says: 'You can't please everyone'.

www.nzherald.co.nz

If a private landlord rented a house in that condition they would have the book thrown at them.
If a slum landlord like this one rents multiple rooms out for emergency housing, no issues.
$650 pw for a room. Previous Govt was happy to throw money at these landlords to provide slum conditions to the vulnerable but impose strict healthy homes standards on all other landlords, the only exception to the rule being KO.

 

[miket12]

If a private landlord rented a house in that condition they would have the book thrown at them.
If a slum landlord like this one rents multiple rooms out for emergency housing, no issues.
$650 pw for a room. Previous Govt was happy to throw money at these landlords to provide slum conditions to the vulnerable but impose strict healthy homes standards on all other landlords, the only exception to the rule being KO.

To show how dumb she was…. If she’d gone through the proper channels and entered into an agreement to lease it to HNZ for emergency housing for a four or five year period, HNZ would have paid to bring it up to a healthy homes standard, undertaken the repairs and maintenance and renovated it again at the end of the their lease.

 

[dean]

To show how dumb she was…. If she’d gone through the proper channels and entered into an agreement to lease it to HNZ for emergency housing for a four or five year period, HNZ would have paid to bring it up to a healthy homes standard, undertaken the repairs and maintenance and renovated it again at the end of the their lease.

I don't think HNZ would have done the initial upgrade as part of the lease.
I brokered one of these deals a few years ago and that was not the case.
I was also involved at the expiry of the lease and getting HNZ to exit the lease with in the terms of the lease was a battle.
HNZ managers seem to decide how they are going exit the lease without actually reading what their obligations are and only revert to them under threat.

 

[Noitall]

To show how dumb she was…. If she’d gone through the proper channels and entered into an agreement to lease it to HNZ for emergency housing for a four or five year period, HNZ would have paid to bring it up to a healthy homes standard, undertaken the repairs and maintenance and renovated it again at the end of the their lease.

National promises end to emergency housing motels in Rotorua

National says it would aim to end the use of emergency housing motels in Rotorua within two years, if elected.

www.rnz.co.nz

Good to see if this is implemented it will see people like this scum having more scrutiny put on the conditions they have others living in or end it as reported but would hope to see it extend as Auckland and Waikato hold the majority in the emergency housing numbers coming from these areas. Now a $340 million a year disaster that has only deteriorated, it’ll be interesting to see the route taken to correct their short term initiative of buying motels to house those in need of a roof over their heads