Posts by Katharine Moody
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Chris Waugh,
It would also be nice to see a party with an immigration policy based firmly in humanitarian principles.
Yes, and one which gives real consideration with respect to our shared governance with Maori. Not sure if I've posted this before, but it's a really interesting perspective from Ranginui Walker;
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc0402/article_316.shtml
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Farmer Green,
A lesser impact on the environment might be something that the populace believes should be brought about.
I would like to see us make far greater use of environmental carrying capacity (quantitative analysis) as a part of our planning/development decisions - including built environment as well as natural environment carrying capacity. I think that was what the RMA's effects-based approach was supposed to do but it can't be working given our congestion problems; our nutrient problems; etc.
It was pointed out very early on in the RMA implementation (and that implementation is 1991) that the Act as written failed to deal with cumulative effects - yet regardless of the many amendments to it since 1991, we still haven't solved that problem.
So we now see that problem trying to be solved in much lower order (and in many case, non-regulatory) documents, such as catchment strategies and local/village strategic plans. We have become adept at talking the talk.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to izogi,
Read them both – much of what is in the E&C policy is equally as open to interpretation or just plain “open ended”. One that is pretty clear is this one however,
Rights to take and use water are available only to New Zealand people (citizens and permanent residents) and New Zealand owned companies, and must not be alienated to overseas persons or interests whether directly or indirectly.
I do wonder just how many current water take permits are held by majority shareholders from offshore. Bet it’s huge. One assumes that specific legislation would be needed to revoke all permits nationally and then a new application process would need to be run. Suspect it would run contrary to a number of FTAs as well.
It does concern me that they run so many ‘pie in the sky’ policies that if/when in coalition they never have to be accountable for.
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Farmer Green,
At the moment it is predominantly necessary in order to fill positions in low paid sectors of our workforce – as was demonstrated when National tried to use wages as a proxy for skills (i.e., it was plain to see we were mainly importing for low wage positions across a number of sectors in what were classified as low skill migrants);
"The revised salary threshold is more realistic for migrant workers to go from a lower-skilled role to a mid-skilled role with training and more experience, and will be more workable in the regions."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11895865
Immigration is not really necessary, rather it is convenient/expedient.
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Farmer Green,
A self-fulfilling prophecy . . . .we need immigrants because Kiwis don’t have the necessaries.
But that is simply popular myth - it isn't the case at all. Rather in the main the immigration policy has been deliberately set such that we are able to import labour that we can exploit;
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/335411/too-easy-to-flout-employment-laws-says-union
The fact that the Labour Inspectorate has been wholly inadequate to police this is another deliberate government policy - much like the Mining Inspectorate in the lead up to Pike River.
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The real issue is that NZ is bad for immigrants.
We have no proper immigration policy – instead we have an exploitation and education trafficking policy;
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/337158/the-outcome-of-these-10-years-is-not-even-zero
And many, many more similar stories - it's been known for years - and the National Government is complicit in respect of the exploitation.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Zach Bagnall,
This poll which claims to include both landline and mobile has the Greens at 9% which is a whole lot different than 4%.
That said I dislike news reporting of polls - herd mentality and all that.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to izogi,
Which is perhaps one of the reasons the Electoral Commission recommended threshold changes?
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Some astonishing stats from the US;
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11905418
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And an ex IRD/tax collector's point that #WearealMetiria;
https://letstalkabouttaxnz.com/category/welfare/
And a related campaign from ActionStation;