Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Silver and Gold, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Could you elaborate or, if there’s one, post a link, please ?
This Facebook clip captures that morning on Newstalk ZB.
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The ODT interviews David and Bob about the nom:
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to BenWilson,
This is quite aside from the point that Rudman offers no evidence at all to support his assumption that foreign capital hasn’t also become a factor even in Ponsonby. How would he know? By not noticing Chinese faces on his street??? Really? That’s part of the point of Salmond’s analysis – that it’s not easy to know who owns what here at all.
Even taking it to the place of counting Chinese-looking faces in a suburb was a weird thing to do. That column was well below Rudman's usual standard.
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It appears we're not the only place having this discussion at the moment.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Tze Ming Mok,
Seriously, this is my teenage nightmare.
I’m really sorry you had to read that. Took my eye off the ball a bit there. jh is not welcome here.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Danielle,
It would help i[f] they differentiated themselves
You don’t mean that the way it sounds, right?
Ugh. I should have gone with my gut a long time ago and excluded jh's single-issue immigration-trolling.
It is done now.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to jh,
Tourism is important to New Zealand yet if you look who is driving the buses it is Kiwi driver Japanese guide; Chinese driver, Chinese guide. A very visible manifestation of the benefits of immigration.
I don't really get your point and I'm not sure of its relevance.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Alfie,
Steven Joyce responds by saying the government will finally start to collect data on foreign buyers from October 1st. Those who suggested that Labour’s release of limited data would force National’s hand have been proved right, although Joyce was a bit woolly on detail and couldn’t say when that data would be released or in what form.
That’s because the legislation is utterly and apparently deliberately vague on that issue.
There are huge holes in the Taxation (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Bill, because it only requires a local IRD number and bank account. It will also allow property purchases via trusts, which inevitably will have the effect of obscuring the level of foreign purchases. It doesn’t require a register of foreign property transactions, merely allows for the possibility that LINZ might at some point publish aggregated information.
Irony: the way they’ve done it means it will capture New Zealand citizens with foreign tax status.
Louise Upston’s first reading speech has some of the detail.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Kumara Republic,
They do indeed. And it’s the most popular choice in the unscientific Herald poll, with the UK foreign CGT option a distant 2nd. And for the BNZ’s Tony Alexander.
They've just begun a crackdown after acknowledging they have huge avoidance problems.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Hilary Stace,
There is another issue there – of ethnicity and poverty. Also indicates large inequality within the Chinese community – I wonder whether the margin between the very poor and the very rich is wider than for other ethnic groups?
I think that’s largely related to the fact that a big chunk of the resident Chinese population are students.
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