Mike's Minute: We are housing snobs

A housing development for you.

A housing development that once again shows how reality beats theory.

Housing is a New Zealand obsession. We love housing and we long to own housing.

Robert MacCulloch: The Ministry of Social Development's Managers Take a Leaf from George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth"

The Ministry of Social Development is going to great lengths to sell Kiwis its version of "the truth", regardless of where that truth lies. Yes, its managers are furiously burning public money to crush those of us trying to expose mistakes in the design & implementation of the wage-subsidy scheme to protect their reputations, as well as the Finance Minister & PM's.