Talk Wellington / September 2023
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Rainy day watching and listening fun
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- Some great city-building watching and listening we’ve been enjoying… PODCAST: Infrastructure construction, and how to f*ck up (spoiler: it’s quite easy!) There’s (rightfully) lots of noise at the moment about New Zealand’s staggering infrastructure deficit, and some really big talk about what big infrastructure things politicians promise they’ll build for us (especially the kinds of...
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Countering misinformation & disinformation in our communities: power yourself up!
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- False information is really, *really* unhealthy and, unsurprisingly, it’s infiltrating the public discourse around even the most “no brainer” city changes.
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Don’t be resigned to renting being rubbish. It needn’t be!
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- Just your regular reminder that the munted way we do some things in New Zealand isn’t Just How It is. And, in fact, being better is straightforward! This is from a recent, generally cheerful update on the state of NZ’s housing market, where Ged Cann reports on a NZ Herald investigation of the impact of...
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Teeny local businesses…and what we need to make them common again
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- “Residential” zoning has a lot to answer for, including that thing where you have to get in the car and drive 10 minutes to fetch… anything. Little hyper-local neighbourhood businesses are great for 1,000 reasons so how do we let them come back? For a lovely summary of why tiny neighbourhood businessess are the best,...
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Public health & low carbon transport: what parties said
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- While the relationship between these might seem obvious to readers of Talk Wellington, public health researchers thought they’d ask political parties about this directly, and see what they said. The results are… We recently discovered that there’s a Public Health Communication Centre – how very useful! They’re doing a graet public service this election year:...
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Locally-driven civics: talanoa-wānganga and citizens’ assembly on climate change
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- Another of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
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Locally-driven civics: talanoa-wānanga and citizens’ assembly on climate change
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- Another of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
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