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Senior Research Fellow, He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago. Mostly researching housing, health, and winter illnesses, but easily distracted.
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I'd like to see a system where any landlord who hasn't paid a Tribunal fine within, say, 31 days, automatically has a lien placed on their property until the debt is paid. These landlords sold the property for $1.7m but still haven't paid their former tenants. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

So, I know I don't get sport and I don't mean to be mean - but can someone explain why news media keep headlining Liam Lawson, even though as far as I can tell he's barely second tier?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Please REPOST Stephen Rainbow called Muslim immigration a “threat to Jewish communities” He is the Chief Human Rights Commissioner! This is why I filed a judicial review last year. I didn't think the rot would show this quickly, but it has. Release ⬇️ universe-of-rights.ghost.io/media-releas...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This petition to stop NZ First's stupid sex definitions bill has been open for nearly a week and has 1.2k signatures The hate group's petition that spawned this bill took four months to get 2.2k signatures Let's show just how little hate there is petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Important petition calling on government to minimise the spread of Covid and other illnesses, especially in schools. Please sign and share! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/cl...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 9 days ago • 610 comments

"Too many homes" will not be a thing until all rents everywhere are routinely less than 25% of the minimum wage. Still, good to see the Ardern government being credited for these lower rents. Lower rents are a huge help to the cost of living and I'd hate to see National take the credit.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Stuff's reprint of The Telegraph's piece on who could be next Pope says "In theory, any baptised Catholic male could be made Pope." I thought "doesn't have a living (married) spouse" was also a criterion?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I saw a rat on a Remuera footpath, drowned by the cyclone.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

In Tāmaki Makaurau.* News says various things shut due to extreme weather and I'm looking outside thinking "Wut? When? Just looks like your average Wellington Wednesday to me...?" *Was going to be in the Coromandel, but looked at the forecast and decamped.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

With (ex-?) Tropical Cyclone Tam striking, it seems a good time to remind tenants that if your home becomes uninhabitable (when it's not your fault), the rent afterwards is $0 per day, and you can give 2 days' notice. But NB the landlord can give 7 days' notice.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

submitted 25 days ago • 138 comments

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

submitted 24 days ago • 76 comments

Dear journalists. Please stop calling them "reciprocal" tariffs. There's nothing reciprocal about them - their calculation did not include any assessment of existing tariffs. It's lazy, and it's inaccurate. Try "trade-weighted tariffs" if you want to distinguish them from the 10% tariff.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

submitted 25 days ago • 118 comments