Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: Is the Seine any filthier than an Auckland beach after rain? Is Auckland’s Civic Theatre the best place in the country to watch a movie? And who can find the elusive Canterbury Panther? But first: Is Chris Bishop right that the housing crisis National’s biggest threat?
Gabi Lardies: “If I wanted to make loyal National supporters’ heartbeats quicken, I’d show them exactly what Chris Bishop did on Sunday at the National Party AGM. On the pull-down projection screen at the Due Drop Events Centre in Auckland, he first showed a neat, mundane graph of New Zealand homeownership rates plummeting from about 73% in 1986 to 65% in 2017. So far the hearts kept their steady rhythms. Then, a black slide, with a little National Party logo in the corner, boldly announced: “Declining rates of homeownership is the greatest threat to the centre-right worldwide”. Surely this dramatic statement raised a few pulses and eyebrows – but is it true, and does it apply here?”
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Is the housing crisis National’s biggest threat?
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