Новости за 10.07.2016

PUBLIC PROTEST AGAINST SALE OF STATE HOUSES IN TAURNGA TO BE HELD ON 16 JULY

Labour will change Housing NZ from a corporation to a public service and use the dividends it formerly paid into the Crown coffers to maintain and build more state houses, Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little says.

Last night just after midnight the Trustpower TECT Rescue Helicopter was dispatched to Waihi township where a 65 year old local man had become seriously unwell due to an existing medical condition.

Upon seeing the offenders the dairy owner has armed himself with a bat. Following a scuffle the shop owner has received a superficial head injury which did not require medical attention.

Land SAR volunteers and Police are searching for a 15-year-old girl lost with her dog in the Wainuiomata hills.

A male motorcyclist has died following reports that he came off his machine in Pokeno, Waikato this morning.

Dunedin Police are calling for witness to a serious assault in the central city on Friday 8 July.

Stuff reports: Federated Farmers has said farmers should have the right to choose whether to use genetically modified organisms, but others says New Zealand is missing the opportunity to market the country’s products as GM-free. At its recent annual conference, the Feds voted unanimously that the Environmental Protection Authority should manage and make all decisions relating to […]

Xero managing director Anna Curzon writes in for Stuff: “It’s about time digital technology was recognised as an important topic of education because it’s crucial we prepare our next generation for tomorrow’s world.” Someone could have written the same words any time in the last 40 years. It’s not a new idea. People said the […]

A curious story in Stuff: Thirty years ago if you got HIV it was a case of “you’re dead”, says Winston Peters. If MPs had known in the 80s there would be such an advance in medicine for treating HIV Peters reckons they would never have voted against a bill to legalise gay sex. On July 9,1986, the NZ First leader was one […]

The Guardian reports: Labour has been plunged into its “greatest crisis for generations” as a leadership bid was launched against Jeremy Corbyn and its biggest union donor waged war on the party’s deputy leader.  In an extraordinary day of bloodletting, Angela Eagle, who recently resigned as shadow business secretary, announced her bid to topple Corbyn, […]

David Seymour writes in the SST: Much of the country is focused on child abuse, poverty, and putting kids’ needs first. The political left tell us the Government should just spend a few dollars more, as they have told us for decades. Yet the current Government taxes and spends $80 billion every year.  This surpasses […]

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Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here’s a collection of articles I hope you find interesting. Please add yours in the comment section.

Anton Babadjanov, “The Supply And Demand Of Street Space“, The Urbanist. Here’s a nice compilation of the spatial capacity of various modes. We did a count on Symonds Street a few weeks [...]