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In any case, the Unitary Plan has single-handedly sorted out the actual free-marketeers from the Generation Rentier brigade.
If Donald Trump fails to take the White House and decides to look to Auckland for new business, popcorn merchants will be laughing all the way to the bank.
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Hard News: So what now?, in reply to John Palethorpe,
Burton and his troops may be celebrating, but that is characteristic of people who literally cannot see beyond the short term. They've actually lost, and lost hugely. They just don't realise it yet.
Just wait till the housing bubble burst comes.
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Polity: Key: Peering between the lines, in reply to Steve Barnes,
But Trump? He may ring the death knell for the TPP but the collateral damage would be horrendous.
Trump is more or less picking up where the infamous palaeo-con Pat Buchanan left off.
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Polity: Key: Peering between the lines, in reply to Steve Barnes,
As for "headline grabbing crisis abroad." all I have to say here is one word... Trump.
If Trump or Sanders take the White House, we know what that could mean for the TPPA. And if there's one opponent that Key can't fight, it's the housing bubble if it bursts. Right now Key & Little could be both privately hoping that they're not in charge when it goes pear-shaped.
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My thoughts, TL;DR: yes to changing the flag, no to a maple-leaf-designed-by-committee with all the vapidity of a Jersey Shore episode.
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Marc C,
Why do we have to simply allow most migration to head into Auckland, it makes NO sense.
By a freak of infrastructure and economy of scale, Auckland handles most of NZ's long haul flights, which means it inherently gets most of the migrants. In Wellington there's been a bit of heated debate over extending its runway and the costs/benefits involved.
On top of that, there's been a lot of head office drift to Auckland in the past generation, supposedly on the pretext that globally-minded businesses need to be on the next plane to LA/London/Tokyo at a minutes' notice.
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Sacha,
Herald has opinion posts for (young tertiary student) and against (old Ak 2040 guy) the plan changes.
I've always thought the Boomer-Millennial inter-generational conflict thing is more accurately a conflict between Generation Rent and Generation Rentier. Not all Boomers are rent- i -ers and not all millennials are renters - they just happen to skew towards their respective social strata.
(Is it possible to have bold/italic text bunched together with normal text?)
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
...there's gotta be a tv series in it, at least?
Hell, an opera!Queensland's White Shoe Brigade is an obvious example. I haven't yet found if the Aussies have made a soap opera or mini series of it. Maybe it's just a matter of time.
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Giovanni recently mentioned the term "creative destruction" on Twitter regarding economic over-reliance on commodities that are slumping in price. I immediately realised that the Unitary Plan could be thought of as a form of creative destruction - architecturally, socially and financially. And why there's loud opposition to it from those who like to call themselves free-enterprisers.
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Hard News: Helen Kelly's letter, in reply to ThoughtSpur,
I don't know the cause of Ms Kelly's lung cancer. Often it is a direct result of smoking cigarettes. The government of New Zealand sanctions the use of tobacco products that cause dramatic and negative effects on the population's health and wellbeing. It has a conflict of interest in that it also produces substantial revenue from taxes and excise duties on the sale of the product.
How curious it has such a pious attitude to cannabis - when the science overwhelmingly shows cannabis is exponentially less harmful or costly than tobacco (and alcohol - which also has a free ride).
Give the woman a break. She's fatally ill.
It's hard not to make the corelationship between the government's opposition to Kelly's application because, well, she has publicly opposed them on trivial matters like workplace safety and zero-hours contracts - which may be unfair but where there's smoke, maybe there's fire man.I doubt it's personal political vendettas. I'd say it's just old-fashioned patch protection from Big Tobacco, Big Booze, Big Pharma, and Big Prisons.