Christchurch - dysfunction central

Things are just getting crazier by the minute. I've written before about how the earthquake has brought out the nutters and single-issue monomaniacs, and (dare I say it, oh whisper it please, not in our clean green sweetie-nicey naive NZ) political corruption, but it's getting worse.
Summary:
1.- We are to have a cardboard cathedral. This will only be temporary (like 20 years) but will still cost around $4 million. (Some say $5 mill., some say it will blow out to $10 mill).
2. - The cathedral leaders wanted to be autonomous, so decided that the old cathedral would be demolished, without requiring any public input or consultation. It's our property, we can do what we like with it they said. Fair enough, I don't have an argument with that. However, two days ago they indicated that they require $244,000 of public money to build the new cardboard cathedral, because there's a "shortfall". They don't want our opinions, but they do want our money.
3. - The person heading the opposition to the destruction of the old cathedral is an avowed atheist. I don't get this, I would have thought he'd be right chuffed at getting rid of the godbotherers from their prominent place at the centre of town.
4.- An ex-All Black (these are thick on the ground in NZ, pun intended - every second middle-aged man claims to be an ex-All Black) has demanded that $144 million be spent on a covered sports stadium so he and his fellow rugby fanatics can watch games without getting wet. This in a city where people are living in cars and garages and have no flush toilets. Or jobs. Or businesses. Nice sense of the real priorities here. Apparently if we have a world-class sports stadium all our problems will vanish overnight. Perhaps he envisages the homeless living there, who knows. He's obviously brain-damaged from too much rucking. Fool.
5.- State houses are empty while people pay $150 a week to live in a garage. The government says a) there is no housing shortage/rent crisis, it's all a figment of the Opposition's imagination and b) even if there was a housing shortage/rent crisis, which we won't admit to, even though there's been a whacking great earthquake which has dehoused 30% of the population of Christchurch, if there was, we would "leave it to the market" to sort it out. "Leave it to the market" is a right-wing economist's way of saying we don't give a shit and we're not going to do anything about it and we hope that all our landlord mates get rich quick on rack-renting to the vulnerable.
6.- Yet another advisory group has been convened to oversee the rebuild. Who did they appoint as the chairman? The guy who's been overseeing the demolition, a very wealthy private individual who will now make megabucks more putting back up what he was paid megabucks to pull down in the first place.
7. - One of the stated aims for the rebuild is to build a "world-class city". What does this mean? Bombay is a world-class city, for bigness and population and poverty. So is Beijing. And Bangkok. But I don't think this is what is envisaged. Or is it?
And so on and so on.  Makes one want to go to sleep for the next fifty years until 'they' get it sorted. Or move to some nice quiet place far away where the arguments of this dysfunctional family can't be heard.