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Leaky buildings

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Leaky buildings

Bob Brockie’s 2002 cartoon plays on the finger-pointing and buck-passing that characterised the leaky building scandal of the 2000s. From the mid-1990s thousands of houses were built using methods that did not keep out the rain. As the cartoon suggests, there were many failures at different levels.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: DX-003-081

by Bob Brockie

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Carl Walrond, Building and construction industry – The building profession and process, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/24198/leaky-buildings (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 26 February 2010.