Новости за 21.11.2015

Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week, we’re starting with an article for the bird-lovers. The NZ Herald’s science reporter Jamie Morton reports that city tuis are changing their song:

Tags: General Debate

The Herald reports: Plans for a $50 million gondola from Queenstown’s Remarkables Park to the iconic Remarkables mountain range have been revealed today. A 9.8km gondola, the longest in Australasia, is proposed by Remarkables Park Town Centre developer Porter Group Ltd. It will dock with NZSki’s new ski field base building, which opened this year […]

The ODT reports: Dunedin secondary school pupils may be forced to attend the school nearest to them if one option proposed by the Ministry of Education is adopted. The ministry has put up for discussion four options for improving the efficiency of the Dunedin secondary schools network. It is efficient to force people to attend a certain […]

The NZTA yesterday announced they’ve awarded a $1 billion contract to build another bypass of Hamilton and comes after they spent $200 million on the existing bypass at Te Rapa which opened three years ago. Construction won’t begin till next spring as the contract includes the detailed design work which will take place first.

The Herald reports: Welfare, says Tuhoe leader Tamati Kruger, is a “disease” that has sapped the motivation of his people. “Being a beneficiary is a type of servitude,” he says. “It doesn’t nurture self-realisation or honour or self-respect. It destroys all of that, and the disease spreads from the individual to the family to the […]

With the realisation that we turn 4 this weekend (yay!), and inspired by Russell's excellent post Stories: Home, I thought we could add a visual element along similar lines.
In the Home discussion thread, which proves that sometimes you can read the comments, we came to discuss the notion of tūrangawaewae, and what it could mean to anyone who now calls Aotearoa 'home'. This from The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

Stuff reports: A damning independent review has found the Christchurch City Council botched the $40 million development of new planning rules for the city. The independent review, by Peter Winder and Tanya Perrott finds fault with the council’s development of the  Replacement District Plan (RDP). It concludes the council has “not produced an effective plan” for […]

Stuff reports: Businesses are doubtful of recouping tens of thousands of dollars from a failed company that ran Monster Slide events in New Zealand. Trill Productions Ltd went into voluntary liquidation on November 2, making it the third company directed by Wellington entrepeneur Jamie Templeton to go under since February.  I don’t judge people for one […]