Perversity rules
Our politics has never seen anything quite like it before: local politicians waging a propaganda war against central politicians by way of technical drawings.
It’s not quite up there with the Charlie Hebdo cartoon set-to, but Auckland Council’s forensic portrayals of the joint Labour-National housing-intensification policy are state-of-the-art agitprop.
Call them rabbit hutches or battery-chook cages, the council’s visual interpretations of the new density policy are caricatures that make living in one’s car seem the preferable option.
The Government has naturally retaliated with its own draughtspeople’s depictions of roomier digs. Still, adding a few centimetres and some shrubs, joggers, cyclists and cavoodles
