Kāinga Ora feels the pinch of reduced funding, reduced builds and steady complaints.

Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it.

And does anyone else remember this old newspaper promotion or am I imagining it?

And what happens to the rest of us when they're not?

Is a lack of mainstream media coverage for the Black Ferns simply because newsrooms don't care, or are there many other bleak factors at play?