Its a simple question and the media have made half hearted attempts at answering it, but the root cause for some reason escapes their eagle eye. The most common answer, and the one National’s shadow housing spokeswoman Nicola Willis gives is that there is a “shortage of housing”. There has been a shortage of housing for about a decade or

New Zealand bears the embarrassment of owning the first team to “take the knee” at the Tokyo Olympics. The women’s soccer team did so before their match against Australia. A match NZ lost two goals to one. NZ’s goal scorer Gabi Rennie was asked by NewstalkZB’s Heather Du Plessis-Allan why her team took the knee. Ms Rennie’s answer was garbled