Posts by Russell Brown
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It seems Mr Poole has some notoriety amongst reporters.
Although he won’t answer serious and significant questions about his own schools, he’s quite fond of emailing reporters to diss competing schools.
And, of course, he’s not shy about funnelling things through Whaleoil.
Basically, this is fucking nuts. Serious and numerous complaints that bear on the welfare of vulnerable children, a mysterious teaching system with an uncertain connection to any concept of educational best practice … and Farrar and Slater on board as cheerleaders. Ugh.
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to simon g,
What you’re (unsubtly) doing is taking cheap shots for views they don’t hold and haven’t expressed. As I’m sure you know.
Indeed. There's been plenty of that sort of cheap self-indulgence on social media, but I have no use for it here.
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Hard News: Auckland: The songs of the city, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Careful what you wish for ID – you may be the perfect person to write this for AudioCulture. He’s on our priority list …
I vote Ian!
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Barfoot’s have another problem – if the letter is authentic, that is;
Yes, big if. Although you'd hope Garner would have taken some action to satisfy himself of that.
The letter doesn't say offshore Chinese buyers either. The "despite official denials" part is weird – would a Barfoots agents say that? If it's real, it certainly cries out for follow-up.
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Hard News: Political palatability and…, in reply to David MacGregor,
When you mention ‘cultural safety’ – what do you mean Russell?
Among the schools' selling points is their support of te reo Maori and whanautanga. They don't seem to be delivering on those things.
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to simon g,
Not worried, just gleeful. Keep up the entertainment
By posting racist cartoons? Oh sorry, that’s just your Kiwiblog …
Given the day-in-day-out schadenfreude delivered by Kiwiblog comments over so many years, perhaps we should let David have his moment.
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Aaaaaaand Willie Jackson weighs in ...
What did people like former Helen Clark advisor Keith Ng and economist Shamubeel Eaqub say when Maori rights were breached during the Tuhoe raids by the police in 2007 or when Labour rolled out their shameful foreshore and seabed act in 2004? Nothing. Just like Nick Smith and Stephen Joyce who are citing the race card over Twyford’s allegations.
Ironically, they are the same ministers who backed Don Brash’s racist 2004 campaign alleging “Maori special rights.” As one of the architects of the ‘'Iwi Kiwi’ campaign, Joyce loved the response that he received from ignorant kiwis who believed that Maori were getting special treatment.
Labour won't be too uncomfortable about being accused of racism by a party that ran the most racist political campaign in the last couple of generations. They are on target with a chance now to atone for their past mistakes.
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Labour are, yes.
In what way do you think Labour are helping National gain increased support, I wonder?
David Farrar has been gleefully depicting it all – and in particular the successive blog posts here – as a meltdown on the Left.
Which could, of course, mean that he's a tiny bit worried.
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to tussock,
/Russel Brown.
there is an issue of historic proportions looming with respect to Chinese capital outflows
Really? Is that … extrapolation? Or just … random ass-pulls.
I’m not in the mood for your rudeness, particularly given that you don’t seem to have even tried to read up on it. But here’s Liam Dann’s column from yesterday, which says much the same thing.
As Beijing-based Kiwi economist Rodney Jones has pointed out, China has nearly 60 trillion New Zealand dollars of capital to play with. in the past 12 months as much as NZ$650 billion has been invested outside of China. And this is just the start.
What has policy makers from Vancouver to Singapore talking about Chinese investment is the fact that the country has, until recently, had strict controls on investment outside its borders.
But it is the stated policy of the Communist party to relax these rules and balance the flow of capital in and out of China.
This is global, macro-economic stuff, on a historic scale.
We need to be looking at policy solutions to this issue to ensure that foreign capital – which we need – is not concentrated in areas that distort our economy.
Yes, that’s right, literally trillions of dollars, soon to be freed up and looking for places to go.
Mainland Chinese property investment in Australia doubled last year to more than $12 billion and there has been a global reaction in territories as diverse as Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK to try and protect domestic property markets from the flood of mainland Chinese money.
And that’s before the gates are even open. Given what’s happening with the two stock markets in China and the very low interest rates available at banks, there’s a very real prospect of a historic capital flight. The sums of money are unfathomably large.
A further complication is that some proportion of it is money whose owners are trying to hide it from the Chinese government:
Although few in the industry will openly discuss it, some acknowledge privately that fear among Chinese officials and businesspeople has been a big factor in the surge of investment into western real estate. The Chinese government has stepped up efforts to repatriate corrupt officials and recover offshore assets, including luxury foreign properties.
“The ongoing purge and the fear of losing everything if you are caught up in an anti-corruption investigation or a political fight has convinced many in China to diversify to places with clear and stable legal and political environments,” says one figure at a large property advisory company.
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