The art historian Kenneth Clark put it like this: “If I had to say which was telling the truth about society, a speech by a minister of housing or the actual buildings put up in his time, I should believe the buildings.”
Much political discourse focuses on political speech and any gaffes or errors in it, the Opposition reaction, legal threats responding to the speech or perceived media bias in the coverage of it.
Voters generally believe the buildings –currently, how much it costs to live in them, and how rapidly the companies that construct them are going into liquidation.
For most New Zealand households,