Posts by Russell Brown
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Ready for the bash ...
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Che Tibby,
Could send you a wee baggie of last year’s seeds if you’re game. WARNING: they look suspiciously like cannabis seeds.
Really? How kind! I'll DM you my address.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Che Tibby,
Curry Laksa from that food court on… hobson st? In the mid-90s. I remember it like it was yesterday. Took me 5 years to work out how to replicate it.
That would be Food Alley on Albert Street, home of many a budget delight. And laksa is almost a topic in itself.
These days I’m so dedicated to coriander I grow it and harvest the seeds for the next year’s eating.
Respect! Do you reckon they taste better?
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Hard News: Schools: can we get a plan up…, in reply to Richard Green,
Good on you for forcing the issue -- and getting it discussed in a wider Western Bays context. As I noted above, it sounds like Point Chev isn't the only part of the city where growth projections are an issue.
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Hard News: Schools: can we get a plan up…, in reply to Max Call,
The recent census data would mean there could be a real shake up of a schools decile rating now that the data is not ancient?
/me thinking aloudYou'd think. And then you might want to read the transcript of Hekia Parata's HoS interview , which raises significant questions as to whether that new census data will ever even be applied.
Honestly, this government's record in education is hideous.
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Hard News: Schools: can we get a plan up…, in reply to Julie Fairey,
I'm hearing tell of similar experiences to Point Chev -- where ministry projections seem to conflict with observable reality. I'll try and report them in the next few days.
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Hard News: Diverse Auckland: are we…, in reply to alobar,
(if you have to invoke Sweden, you’ve lost the argument.)
Sweden's weird. They're either really right (social services, support for parents and children) or really wrong (drug and prostitution policy, and their disastrous charter schools experiment).
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Hard News: Diverse Auckland: are we…, in reply to M Steinberg,
For a particular case study in Sweden, look at the statistics in Malmo.
Could we perhaps countenance the possibility that Sweden really has done this wrong? Concentrating poor, mostly Muslim, immigrants to the extent that they comprise 40% of Malmo’s population (versus 3.5% of the national population) hasn’t worked out and that hardly seems a surprise.
And immigrants are over-represented in crime statistics? Well, yeah. The same is true for “culturally compatible” New Zealanders in Australia too. But it’s also very true for Maori in their own country. Do you not think this has more to do with poverty and racism than being the fault of immigration per se?
There has also been a rise in violent anti-semitism in Sweden (which is also feature in France and the Netherlands). See Daniel Radomski’s recent article in Haaretz.
There’s a significant problem in Malmo, clearly. But there’s nearly as a big a problem amongst ethnic Swedes – who are also responsible for the persecution of Muslims.
And even Radomski, the chair of the Zionist Federation of Sweden, had this to say:
However the problem is not Malmö or even the predictable hate against both Israel and Jews that is being displayed and acted upon by certain elements of its population. It is the eagerness, with a small number of outstanding exceptions, of the mainstream media, politicians and opinion makers to ignore and hide current anti-Semitism under the cover of disproportionate and unjustified criticism of Israel. These attitudes should not be tolerated in modern Swedish society and until they are recognized and openly discussed, the tide of anti-Semitism against Swedish Jews will continue to rise.
Criticism of Israel isn’t anti-Semitism and whether it’s disproportionate may well be in the eye of the beholder.
But this is all boilerplate right-wing-blog stuff (like the Swedish Muslim child-rape lie) and I’m struggling to see its relevance to an Auckland where, as the original post indicates, people are getting on with living together to an extent that puts lie to the whole, creepy multiculturalism-is-the-enemy strain of thought.
Basically, if you have to invoke Sweden, you’ve lost the argument.
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Hard News: Schools: can we get a plan up…, in reply to Sacha,
Hopefully they can redevelop the current supermarket site and its dire arcade neighbour into 3-4 storey mixed retail/office/residential.
Yeah, you'd hope so.
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Hard News: Schools: can we get a plan up…, in reply to Allan Moyle,
When you look at the development of the Point Chev School site, where did they put 900 kids in the 40’s? Image I’ve created clearly illustrates the significant loss of outdoor space over time (Sources 1940 & 2001 Aerial Photos from Akl Council GIS and 2013 from Google Earth)
That's brilliant!
