Posts by Chris Waugh
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This morning, and you may be able to see in the far distance the southern end of the Tararuas, trying oh so hard to look alpine
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This morning
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Good morning. Pre-dawn cenotaph, Wellington, dawn parade for the centenary of Chunuk Bair.
And it's a bit blurry, sorry, but these soldiers lined up on the hill above the cenotaph in World War 1 uniform read the excerpt from Colonel William Malone's diary during the service.
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From the safety of the train window this evening
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This morning
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Hard News: Media Take Takes a Break, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
his hat
A simple, effective, and very well used device for making a point. I also liked the Wai Worry ads. Not so simple, just just as effective.
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Yes, Get Your Arse Off The Table is definitely worth watching, very well-made, engaging, thought-provoking.
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I took a lot of sunrise photos over my last summer in Beijing. I must rescue them from the old laptop.
Wellington is proving to be reasonably dramatic.
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Um, I dunno...
This is pretty good too
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to chris,
That’s roughly when Chris Waugh and his family arrived too if I’m not mistaken.
I've been struggling to keep up with the discussion, work is not conducive to that, but just for the sake of adding another anecdatum to the pile suggesting Labour should've looked at a wider time period and paid attention to seasonal variations, among other things (like actually checking residency status instead of using surnames as a proxy for "foreign"):
Yes, we arrived back March 2. Our departure from China was timed entirely by Spring Festival/Chinese New Year, a combination of family considerations and choosing auspicious, or at least appropriate dates for travel. We'd already sorted our money the previous year (on both calendars, as it happens), but were well under the USD50k limit, so Phil Twyford and Rob Salmond and their apologists can relax, we're not part of the "Chinese money driving up Auckland house prices" thing. And we're in Wellington, anyway.
About 3 weeks after we got back, so late March, or perhaps early April, we were standing on Jackson St, Petone, looking in the window of a bookshop directly opposite the Petone police station. Suddenly we heard somebody shouting out, "Fucking Chinese! Fuck off back to China! You think you can fucking come here and have your fucking babies!..." and more words to that effect. Just for those commenters who've been having trouble understanding that the hurt done is actually very real. This targetting of Chinese for blame for things happening in NZ only encourages this sort of behaviour.
Somewhere hereabouts - whether in one of his posts or a comment, I can't remember and don't have time to find - Rob Salmond mentioned Labour's proud race relations record. Yes, I remember the Labour response to Shanghai Pengxin's purchase of the Crafar farms. Out Winston-ing Peters himself. Real proud. I could go on, but I need to get on my bike and off to work very soon...
To borrow and then mangle a line from Forrest Gump: Racist is as racist does. There is so far no evidence that Labour attempted to figure out how much of the money flowing in to the Auckland property market actually is foreign, only how much is attached to Chinese-sounding surnames. Labour deliberately targeted Chinese people and used "Chinese" as a proxy for "foreign". Labour lost my vote, and will have to work extremely hard to win it back.
