Posts by Katharine Moody
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Farmer Green,
Michael Reddell, an economist who has done a lot of commentary/analyses on immigration on his blog, suggested this today:
I’m still tantalised by the idea of only giving residency to people with a job paying more than $150K per annum (plus the refugee quota). It isn’t ideal, and probably skews choices away from relatively young people, but it goes in the direction of saying we want really/able productive people. At that sort of threshold we would probably bring in fewer people, but it would be clearer that they were ones making a signif econoinc/fiscal contribution. Perhaps it needs to be a bit age-related: start at $75K per annum for the under 30s, and move up by 25K for each five year age range thereafter, so that by 55 we’d only offer residence (and the prospect of state health care/NZS) to someone earning $200K pa.
It would also make for a cleaner market test of our universities and PTEs – they’d have to sell themselves on the educational value-add.
And of course given those lower numbers we could really up our refugee quota with UNHCR and try and make a much bigger difference from a humanitarian perspective.
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What The Herald just revealed from an OIA request.
More proof Bill English is a liar. All along he has known that the immigration settings were competing with young Kiwis for jobs. It implies to me that foreign students turned residents with Level 5 qualifications are taking up work that NZ students straight from secondary with Level 2-3 qualifications might otherwise have filled.
Why would a government purposefully do this to its young population - and then lie about why their unemployment stats are so high? Disgusting.
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Probably another argument as to why we need a constitution enshrining rights - as promoted by Geoffrey Palmer.
The Opportunities Party has put out a policy on a written constitution;
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Winston Peters - two FB posts on it and this release;
Dunne of course just put out a release supporting the Nats immigration policy - can't even go near the topic of Bill's dog whistle!
And the Maori Party are glaring by their absent comment. What's that about, I wonder?
Of all parties they should have piled in on behalf of unemployed youth.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Farmer Green,
I think the thing with farming is that it has never suited an hourly-rate type wage model - that's the essence of the family farm and the nature of the old NZ farming community - relatives and other farmers pitched in without the need for remuneration when required, and the farmer him/herself never put him/herself on a time clock in considering his/her average wage.
So the problem with our intensified and corporate style of farming today is that more hired help is needed - and particularly in today's environment of lower and lower commodity pricing - it is never going to work out to be particularly economic in hiring wage workers - hence the trend toward exploitation of overseas workers.
Just my thoughts - in other words, only supported by anecdotal evidence :-).
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Russell Brown,
And he repeated the diatribe on TVNZ Seven Sharp. I'm seriously thinking of lodging a complaint with the broadcasters and then the BSA. Did that regarding the JK 'cage' stunt and eventually the BSA made the right call on that one... but their ruling hardly got a mention in the press :-). Wet bus ticket, but nonetheless satisfying to get positive outcomes from push back on these objectionable antics.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Russell Brown,
FUCKSAKE.
Refusal to accept factual data on this issue is one thing, but the complete absence of empathy and compassion in so many National Party members and supporters is even more disturbing.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Russell Brown,
The fuck? So they’re to be banned from ever working again?
The NZ Drug Foundation pointed this problem out in a tweet - said that past criminal records for possession/social supply was more a barrier to work for many young people. Straight-forward calling English out as a dog whistler:
NZ Drug Foundation executive director Ross Bell said the available statistics showed only a "small minority" failed tests.
"He's [English] a guy who really likes data, so I thought he'd be much more careful - I guess as it's election year you can do that kind of dog whistle stuff…
But of course he will have reached a far smaller audience than this idiot.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Tinakori,
So you are conceding that English was told these things by employers.
He may well have been told these things, but that doesn't mean that Bill, like anyone else who reads the news and understands the worker exploitation and human trafficking that NZ is becoming so well known for, would take anything these employers say as being anything but reflecting their interests in cheap labour.
Bill wasn't born yesterday (see below) - he's closer to the truth than the rest of us on the cheap labour scams. He lied using young New Zealanders - deliberately and maliciously - as a scapegoat to legitimize his administration's flawed immigration policy.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10830276
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/313443/facebook-used-to-recruit-illegal-migrant-workers
No better than Trump.
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And the gaggle of friendlies wasn't all that smooth sailing either :-)