Never mind Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It’s beginning to look as though New Zealand’s existential charter is that we can have food or we can have shelter, but we can’t have both.
The long-awaited new rules protecting highly productive food-growing land have just been announced, and rather than basking in the glow of having ticked off another of the urgent imperatives outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), all many people here can do is complain about what it might mean for housing.
The National Policy Statement on Highly Productive Land (NPS-HPL) was promised several years ago because of the incessant pressure on councils to
