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Why our ute culture will eat our climate strategy for breakfast

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Why our ute culture will eat our climate strategy for breakfast

New Zealand's climate and housing ambitions have become sound bites on a futile hunt for electorally painless policy trade-offs. Our love of suburban homes and utes will triumph without policy pain

Bernard Hickey
Mar 8, 2021
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Why our ute culture will eat our climate strategy for breakfast

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New Zealand's climate and housing ambitions have become mere sound bites on a futile hunt for electorally painless policy trade-offs. Our love of suburban homes and double-cab utes is an enormously powerful cultural force. Changing that culture will take more than a few slogans and sensible spreadsheets. Politicians will have to impose pain and compensa…

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