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Covid 19 coronavirus: No stone unturned in hunt for source of community outbreak 18 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read There are no new Covid-19 cases in the community today after some strong testing numbers in the last 48 hours. There are no new Covid-19 cases in the community today after some strong testing numbers in the last 48 hours. VIRUS LATEST Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says the source of the first community case that plunged Auckland into lockdown may never be found - although officials are looking at a potential new clue. Hipkins is promising to leave no stone unturned when it comes to searching for the source of case A – the woman who works at LSG Sky Chefs in Mangere. ....
Liam Dann: Jaw-dropping new data highlights NZ s housing crisis challenge 16 Feb, 2021 04:45 AM 5 minutes to read Housing costs were rising before the pandemic property boom and new forecasts aren t good. Photo / File Housing costs were rising before the pandemic property boom and new forecasts aren t good. Photo / File As the events of the past few days have shown, we are still in the thick of a dangerous pandemic. But the latest lockdown hasn t given the Government a break from worrying new data highlighting the extent of New Zealand s housing crisis. Three new sources arrived today . well, two datasets and an ominous set of forecasts. ....
Liam Dann: We re getting better at this - Why this lockdown should cost less 15 Feb, 2021 03:00 AM 4 minutes to read Finance Minister Grant Robertson during his Crown Accounts announcement at the Treasury in Wellington. Photo / Mark Mitchell Finance Minister Grant Robertson during his Crown Accounts announcement at the Treasury in Wellington. Photo / Mark Mitchell Aucklanders are getting better at lockdowns and that will make this one less costly, economists say. Last August – as Auckland went into Level three lockdown – ASB economists estimated that it would cost the economy about $440 million per week - or 0.15 per cent of annual GDP. But ASB has revised that view down on the basis of the strong rebound through the last quarter of 2020. ....
Liam Dann: RMA rewrite looks like a special kind of hell 13 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read More trees or more houses? A protester locks himself to a digger in a dispute over a development in Avondale. Photo / Dean Purcell More trees or more houses? A protester locks himself to a digger in a dispute over a development in Avondale. Photo / Dean Purcell I recently read an article in The New Yorker about extreme caving. It described efforts of explorers to plumb subterranean depths in a remote Mexican mountain range. Cavers wriggled through crushingly tight tunnels. Divers, with limited oxygen supply, swam through murky underwater mazes. ....