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Could be worse - check the utterly deranged Colonel Trotter's latest reckons.
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Metro's Simon Wilson has some housing answers for any politicians bold enough to lead.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
the "Hand Wringing Set
ooh, you should see mine.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
This laissez faire wet dream of everyone in the entire world being able to buy our land out from underneath us is a total crock, and both Labour and National are to blame
reckon.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to
So readers are clear, that is a website of one of the largest few disability service providers, formerly known as CCS. However, good analysis and a salient concluding point:
I think some hard questions have to be asked about the current direction of reforms. I cannot help but compare our reforms to Australia. The Australian Government and the Australian disability community has always been upfront with the Australian public that their reforms of disability supports will be more expensive, but will also be fairer. In contrast, the New Zealand Government has tried to create fairer supports within existing funding.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
We don't know who was selling or buying.
Nuts. Which other nations ignore the largest part of their economy, statistically?
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
blaming the govt is Labour’s main job ffs!!
yep. and the whole public even subsidise them to do it.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
Great work. Is that big drop in 2008 likely to be overseas capital being pulled out?
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Australian lessons.
Crikey writer Bernard Keane last year exposed the relationship between Chinese foreign investment and housing affordability for the farce that it really is. Citing the Foreign Investment Review Board's 2012-13 Annual Report, he stated the bulk of Chinese foreign investors were purchasing new dwellings, a fact that's unlikely to impact the property bubble, and that investors from the US and Canada were only slightly behind. "Hard to get a good anecdote about white people showing up to an auction and bidding successfully for a property. "Chinese" buyers, even if their families have lived in Australia for a century, are easier to spot and complain about," he wrote.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to
and New Zealanders built Firefox and Chrome.
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