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Daily review 17/09/2026
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Can anyone find the link to the house today where Ngarewa Packer and Jackson were evicted? I want to see what was happening before.
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cheers Kat.
It breaks my heart to see the governments central and local, dismiss or diminish systems that have been set up to advance us into a civilised, effective country. This from Wellington about the City Council there abandoning support for the Citizens Advice Bureau.
https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=183384 After 50 year partnership WCC cuts support for CAB Sept.17/26
News from CAB
Citizens Advice Bureau Wellington (CAB Wellington) is devastated that Wellington City Council has declined to provide additional funding to support the organisation’s services forWellingtonians.
Despite the delivery of a petition signed by 10,000 people, councillors voted 5-4 against a modest additional contribution of $12,500, less than 10% of the $142,000 funding cut made in May 2026….
In 2018 Wellington City Council only approved continued funding for the five CAB branches in Wellington after an independent service review was completed by PWC.[11] The review found that the CAB delivered a 139 percent return on the investment made by the council….
In 2024 the Ministry of Social Development did not continue funding for the Budget Service run by the Wellington CAB resulting in a funding shortfall of $77,000….
I see the Coalition for Books is bubbling up about better support for reading and books. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2609/S00121/book-sector-says-the-next-3-years-will-define-the-future.htm Rightly they should be concerned that there will be ever less exploratory reading from people in positions of authority. I think that we would find answers in wide reading especially of fiction, to empty corners of our minds not having stored useful stuff to advise when problems occur,
Schulz with his thoughts in Peanuts, Lucy and Snoopy posits some interesting points about childish behaviour in adults and bad attitudes that can get ingrained early in childhood.
In this interaction bullying, bellicose Lucy and younger, thoughtful, musical Linus demonstrate the material mind v the idealistic, empathic one. (The trick for us all is to develop them both – be well-rounded brain-wise.) The two have to pull a wishbone. Lucy explains that the one who gets the major part gets the wish granted. They both have to declare in advance what they want.
Lucy – materialist : I wish for a new doll, a new bicycle, four new sweaters, some new saddle shoes, a wrist watch and about a hundred dollars.
Linus – thoughtful : I wish for a long life for all my friends, I wish for peace in the world, I wish for greater advancements in the fields of science and medicine and…
Lucy – dismissively : You seem to have a knack for spoiling everything!
Aye – there's the rub!