It may not be dressed in fluoro lycra, but sometimes the furore over Wellington’s District Plan feels like the 80s all over again. Those who lived through those tumultuous times may see the similarities.
In the 1980s, the Muldoon government’s efforts to control the economy were becoming increasingly futile – and on to the stage stepped a new class of bright young things pushing for radical change.
The Wellington City Council made a peculiar decision last week, unanimously. In one resolution there was a good decision, and then a bad decision undermining the good decision. The good decision was that the Council supported advocacy to the Government for financial assistance for those most in need of rental relief through an income related rental subsidy (IRRS), available to state housing tenants, but denied to Council tenants. The bad decision was that it resolved to begin a process of getting rid of its exemplary award-winning Council housing and to start a distracting and entangled process of slowly but sur
Doom & Bloom likes to push the envelope, usually in unwise ways. Come watch us absurdly explore controversies that probably don’t deserve the attention.
The portrait room, Nga tai whakarongorua | Encounters, has been at the heart of Te Papa’s Toi Art galleries since their opening in 2018. We’ll be saying goodbye to these […]
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