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Zoe Hunter: Why this year will go down in history
21 Dec, 2020 08:00 PM
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Many economists predicted things would go south post-Covid-19 lockdown. The housing market was not supposed to bounce back the way it has and business confidence was meant to crash, with some sectors expected to hit rock bottom.
But this doesn t seem to be the case. Kiwis have pulled through, especially here in the Bay of Plenty as people really took to heart the meaning of going local.
Despite pre-Covid predictions, the country s property market has gone absolutely berserk.
Property in the Bay of Plenty is selling at a record-low median of 30 days, with the region s annual sales volumes during November at the highest they ve been since 2016.
The report noted there was also a lack of clarity about who was in charge of implementing and monitoring the testing regimes.
In a letter to the minister by the committee co-chairs it said that the current model is improving, but it’s is not fit for purpose over a longer time period.
“We don’t have a status quo model which is well understood and could serve effectively for the next 24 to 36 months,” it said.
In this case, it was accentuated because there was (and still is) the stupid idea that ‘
this will all be over soon‘. Yeah right… Clearly the people in our population need more education about the historical process and progress of pandemics and epidemics. Perhaps the journalists could do some actual research and stop writing some of the complete crap that I keep reading from their opinions? This is going to take years to deal with. If we’re lucky…
Westpac economic confidence survey: NZ Post delivers thousands of Christmas parcels as consumer confidence picks up
20 Dec, 2020 03:00 AM
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NZ Post Bay of Plenty regional manager Jenny Nikora says staff delivered about 132,000 items across the region during the second week of December. Photo / Zoe Hunter
Thousands of Christmas parcels are being delivered across the Bay of Plenty each week as NZ Post hires more staff and courier vans to cater for the demand. One Tauranga courier delivered more than 300 parcels to one residential area in just one day while Rotorua staff had their busiest day with 146 cubic metres of freight for its customers.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Liam Dann - Content or complacent? New Zealand s happiness dilemma
19 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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OPINION:
I feel like we are heading into this summer break a happier nation than we were last year.
That s a bit nuts, but I guess it s just the way human brains are wired. The secret of happiness . is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping, wrote author Stef Penney in the novel The Tenderness of Wolves.
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That s one of my favourite quotes and I confess I have used it in a year-ender column once before.