Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to Russell Brown,
immigration buttressed Labour’s economic story in government quite nicely too.
shamefully lazy really, much like Blinglish aiming to cruise on zero real increases
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to Russell Brown,
And we're already in deficit, thanks to those who profit from squeezes.
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Feed: Meals for Me, in reply to Steve Barnes,
while my partner is off galavanting around in some hospital having operations for the fun of it
hospital food aint much comfort.
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to william blake,
the way to take pressure off Auckland while maintaining migration and taking in refugees is to create work in the rest of this big empty country
People all over the world are favouring larger cities. They offer advantages of scale and connectedness for the sort of work and workers we need more of, which seem to trump other motivations for some reason. Increasing internettedness may change that somewhat.
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to Chris Waugh,
the real issues needing to be fixed are infrastructure, education and training, and management of the economy, and no amount of tinkering with immigration policy is going to fix those issues.
Exactly. We're using migration as a convenient excuse to avoid addressing our ongoing national failure to make our economy sustainably better at earning more from the world through high-value, high-skilled work and smart, creative enterprises.
We are choosing to invest in sprawling suburban McMansions and highly-leveraged dairy farms all ultimately owned by foreign banks, not in what genuinely counts for our children's futures. Tolerating political incompetence is part of that. Let's not encourage further stupidity.
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to Russell Brown,
I can only presume that they're under orders to show neither fear or favour
Haven't heard him lose it like that with any government Ministers. Yet.
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to Russell Brown,
we're entering a period of historically high, and possibly unprecedented, migration inflow that (bearing in mind internal migration) has significant implications for Auckland.
Important nonetheless to remind ourselves that about two thirds of the city's population growth over the next couple of decades comes from Aucklanders having babies and internal migration. Former head government statistician Len Cook made that point eloquently at an Auckland Council-hosted event last year.
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Feed: Meals for Me, in reply to Sue,
due to my energy levels
am with you on that.
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to william blake,
14%?
burn it -
Cynicism is understandable for many of us but does not undermine the hopes of others.
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