Can you be more specific?
What bullish are you calling out exactly?
Seriously though, what is your issue? Why are you like this?
I really think you should take your combative attitude back to Reddit.
It feels weird having such a sensible suggestion come from National actually.
It feels weird having something this cool come from National. What's going on here?
Isn't the whole point of the legislation encouraging just what you're suggesting though?
Did you not look at the community or instance? That should have been a clue.
That's easy to say, but the truth is landlords are absolutely held accountable. The tenancy tribunal is heavily in favour of the tenant, meaning the burden of proof is on the landlord, which is fair enough.
I posted a story here a few days ago about a landlord getting reamed out over dodgy practices actually.
Yup.
It's weird that National are doing more about housing affordability than Labour, given that National are typically the party of business, while Labour are supposed to, you know, look after the working class
And there is nothing in that proposition that is especially difficult to do, meaning it will probably happen.
You say this as though "housing developers" are one entity that works together, rather than a group of businesses all competing with each other, and not necessarily all that fond of the competition.
Not a single comment you've made has added anything of value to the conversation, do you realise that?
Same here, walk fast and don't make eye contact.
I don't think Council realise just how grating being constantly pestered for money can be actually. It definitely means I don't go to certain parts of Wellington unless I have to.
I've had derros get aggressive with me because they didn't like the way I looked at them, and this was during working hours.
Being constantly asked for money gets old fast as well.
Hmm. The PhD study does sound like it's more to benefit her career as an author and her activism than NZ as a whole, but I can see why, in theory at least, a PhD is worthwhile for public interest.
But more than 80 percent of survey respondents say the arts scene is rich and diverse.
Pretty grim result, but I think it's fair. I haven't felt the CBD is a particularly safe place to be for a long time, and the reason for that is some of the residents, who, to put it nicely, you can never quite predict what they will do next.
And, of course, there's the state of the infrastructure.
Collins told RNZ she already uses ChatGPT to write drafts of her speeches.
She seems exactly the type. There's something about AI enthusiasts I really don't like, and I find it difficult to put into words, but it's a certain combination of undeserved optimism and for the technology, an unshakeable belief that it will solve all our problems, and perhaps the most infuriating thing, a blindness to just how fucking weird AI responses typically are.
And given that Judith is probably a lizard person in a skin suit, it doesn't surprise me she's blind to AI weirdness.
Quite interesting to see what her field is, at least.
That's why I'm asking.
My question is, is a PhD thesis as important as this person thinks it is?
And I suspect she will spend an absurd amount of time and money doubling down on her mistake.
The tenant, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs staffer, had concerns about the Saudis being in his home.
Quite a fascinating series of events actually, it sounds like the landlord/realtor has let her attitude cost her a large amount of money, and will continue to do so if she appeals the case.
It's good to see her getting pulled up like this though.
The intruder was charged with a low-level offence and he was convicted and discharged. But, that wasn't the end of it.
>The 41-year-old man was initially charged with unlawfully being in a building and on 1 March, he appeared in the Nelson District Court before a community magistrate who convicted and discharged him.
Uhh, what the fuck? How did anyone think letting this person go was a reasonable thing to do?
Customs and police stumbled upon the factory when investigating a burglary of 80kg of tobacco.
Quite fascinating that illegally manufacturing cigarettes is now a worthwhile endeavour for someone.
The power pylon that fell last Thursday was due to contractors removing too many nuts, Transpower chief executive Alison Andrew says.
They undid the bolts, and it fell over.
The woman is taking a man she met on a dating site to the Disputes Tribunal after the relationship ended just months after it began.
Another relationship situation ending up at Disputes tribunal, this time being partly successful.
The Interislander ferry only recently underwent wet dock maintenance, which included the replacement of its steering system.
There is an article linked within that one that goes into more detail, but the cause of the grounding has been confirmed as a steering failure.
She's a long way up the shore, so it will take a lot of force to get her off the beach, I think.
Green MP Darleen Tana has been stood down since initial allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband's bike business. Now a worker's messages raise fresh questions.
Paying people in cash, hiring workers not allowed to work for them on the visa they have, paying people late, there's a lot of dodgy stuff here actually.
A woman was so unhappy that her boyfriend failed to take her to the airport, meaning she missed a flight to a concert, that she took him to the Disputes Tribunal for a breach of contract.
I thought this was pretty funny. Probably for the best the case was unsuccessful, of course.
Northpower says most of its 65,000 customers have been affected by outages across nearly the entire region after a tower fell near Kumeū.
I've never seen an entire tower fall over like that, that's kinda terrifying.
An Auckland real estate agent is taking a principled stand that has consequences, her lawyer says.
This is such a strange thing to require someone to know, especially when she doesn't deal with Maori land, and all sale is the same legally regardless of the ethnicity of the buyer. And the justification given for making this mandatory is incredibly tenuous, in my view.
The official plane the prime minister was travelling won't be fixed in time, the Defence Minister says.
So two points here, first, didn't this dingus promise to take commercial flights to save money anyway?
Second, this is getting embarrassing for NZ that this keeps happening.
Passersby desperately tried to save a person struck on SH1, but they died at the scene.
I'm trying to work out the series of events here, because it's quite bizarre. This person was in a car crash, and then decided to cross the center median barrier, and walk in front of traffic coming the other way? Looking at the photo, they had to walk a reasonable distance and cross a safety barrier to reach the other lane.
The Public Service Commission's been directed to investigate after allegations Te Pāti Māori misused data during the 2023 election campaign.
>A group of former workers at Manurewa Marae said private data from census forms was photocopied and entered into a database they believe was then used to target voters in the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate.
How did anyone think this was even remotely acceptable?
A mum says her son is terrified of taking the bus after being threatened by two boys with a machete - in an attempt to steal his shoes.
How does this keep happening? Taking public transport shouldn't be anywhere near as dangerous as it currently is, this is getting ridiculous.
And how a union boss ruined a regional councillor's morning.
This is such a bizarre thing to have such a blow up over. I don't use public transport, so I've never heard these announcements, are they really that bad?
Seagliders and 35-minute trips between Whangārei and Auckland are a step closer.
I'm pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there's a very good reason why they've never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I'd love to know what everyone else thinks.
Te Pāti Māori is standing by comments made by MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi which other parties have called inflammatory and offensive.
> In Parliament last Wednesday, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said the government "will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori".
Tad hyperbolic, don't you think?
The Wellington woman says she felt degraded and humiliated after being confronted by the Green MP.
She sounds absolutely unhinged, going into someone's business just to pick a fight with them is straight up bullying behaviour.