Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: Sam Hayes and Mike McRoberts look back in awe and sorrow as Newshub’s final bulletin approaches. Plus: How Vera Ellen got a reputation for telling audiences to shut it, and Tara Ward watches a local workplace comedy like we’ve never seen before. But first: Joel MacManus on the problem with Chris Bishop’s plan to flood the housing market.
“Housing minister Chris Bishop says he wants to flood the housing market. On Thursday, he unveiled a list of policies to deregulate the market and make it easier to build homes. His description of a ‘flood’ evokes an image of the government turning a hose on full bore, spraying new developments all over the country. A more accurate metaphor would be a stream. The government can’t make people build houses any more than it can legislate the price of them. The amount of water (investment in new housing) depends on many factors: interest rates, labour markets, supply chains. The government can’t control the flow, but can remove some blockages to help the water flow more easily. It can’t point it like a hose, but it can build stopbanks or eddies to guide the water in the direction where it has the greatest potential benefit.”
Listen to episode 4 of Juggernaut – ‘Quantum Leap’
Roger Douglas’s radical overhaul of the NZ economy kicks through the gears. Corporatisation sends thousands of workers to the dole queue. Labour is returned to power in 1987 and when the global crash hits, Douglas seizes the opportunity to go harder, and go faster. Follow now to make sure you get every episode.
Sam Hayes and Mike McRoberts look back in awe and sorrow ‘I’m sorry we couldn’t save it’: AM says its final goodbye ‘I hope you die’: The reality of being a bus driver in 2024 Could dropping reo Māori names from government agencies actually be giving mana to te reo Māori? Life in Aotearoa is increasingly precarious – and young people shoulder the burden
Dr Areta Wilkinson on building taonga for the community, with the community "I have a lot of tentacles," says Dr Areta Wilkinson of her creative practice. She investigates contemporary jewellery as a form of knowledge informed by whakapapa and a Ngāi Tahu worldview. In the second story of Art Work, Sam Brooks speaks with Dr Wilkinson about her many projects that require hi-vis, grassroots and going deep into the past. Read the full piece on The Spinoff now. In case you missed it: The first instalment of Art Work with Anapela Polataivao ONZM.
Vera Ellen: How I got a reputation for telling my audience to shut it Madam is a workplace comedy like we’ve never seen before ‘A contract with their environment’: The incredible power of feedbacks The Friday Poem: ‘The knowledge in grass’ by Elizabeth Smither The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending July 5
Join The Spinoff Members “The Spinoff is one of the great pleasures of my reading life, the repository of timely and quality journalism that continues to surprise, delight and inform.” – Denise, Spinoff Member since 2020. If, like Denise, you enjoy our work and want to support us, please consider becoming a member today. Already a member? Ka nui te mihi, your support means the world to us.
Sharing is caring! If you enjoyed today’s roundup, please share with your friends and whānau.
|
The problem with Chris Bishop’s plan to flood the housing market
22:01
0
