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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Just curious – do you see “blue-rinsers” to be a derogatory term?
Yes, and its targets fully deserve it in the circumstances. ;)
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From the AKL Uni Biz School:
Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy & Ananish Chaudhuri: Auckland house price crisis - we name the guilty party
There has been a lot of discussion about whether surnames can tell us about the extent of overseas Chinese investment in the Auckland housing market. But forget about the Chens, Wangs and Lis. If you need a surname to attribute Auckland's incipient housing bubble to, it is Deng.
Deng Xiaoping, the so-called "paramount leader" of China from 1978 to 1992, is the politician most often credited with orchestrating the Chinese growth miracle over the past three decades. While those policies can rightly be credited with lifting millions out of poverty, those same policies now inflate and distort asset prices around the world, including here in New Zealand.
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Chris Waugh,
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.
If we want to throw out the Key Govt but can't trust Labour to do so, maybe a stronger Green Party is the least worst option right now. To take the 'Missing Million' option is tempting, but ultimately an unintended endorsement of the status quo.
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The fact that Alwyn Poole is resorting to hiding behind Dirty Politics players is telling in its own right. How long before he completes the circle by hiring Carrick Graham & Co?
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to Mike Steinberg,
2) Restrictions on land use.
You know the world's gone topsy-turvy when it's the blue-rinsers who are the most vocal about keeping the status quo on land use. Draw your own conclusion as to whether it's old-fashioned snobbery dressed up as 'heritage' and 'community character', financial self-interest in the housing bubble, or both.
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to simon g,
Don’t be so infantile.
As I’ve repeatedly said on here, Rob/Phil & co have handled the whole matter very poorly, and they deserve the criticism they’ve been getting for that.
What you’re (unsubtly) doing is taking cheap shots for views they don’t hold and haven’t expressed. As I’m sure you know.
Seconded. Maybe SHG should try the test at All Look Same. Funny thing is, these bakers likely hail from SEA countries that traditionally haven't see eye-to-eye with mainland China.
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Four words come to mind with the whole charter school thing: too big to fail.
And it's worth asking: how many charter school shills and operators actually send their kids to one?
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Heather du Plessis-Allen seems to be giving the issue the benefit of the doubt. Draw your own conclusion.
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Sacha,
The issue itself will be resonating strongly with Auckland voters, however, and as Russell says, Farrar will have delved into that by now.
I know one of these ‘Auckland voters’ personally, and I’ve previously posted about him. Miraculously, he doesn’t drag my ethnicity into it.
Still, which team would you put money on to spin their way out of this without shoving their feet in their mouths? Not a high bar, I know.
In any case the issue seems to have gotten too big to be spun out of by anyone regardless of political colours.