Daily review 03/02/2025

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, February 3rd, 2025 - 12 comments
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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

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12 comments on “Daily review 03/02/2025 ”

  1. SPC 1

    The possibility of net migration in the next few months

    Sort of explains the need for the, work offshore while here, visitors.

    https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/02/nz-could-become-net-exporter-of-population/

    • joe90 1.1

      I know of a half a dozen young people who have recently gone, or are planing to go, to join family members in Queensland.

    • weka 1.2

      it's the other way around. Allowing working holiday visas in the numbers we do is a form of wage suppression. People leave because of that.

      • SPC 1.2.1

        Those, work offshore, visitors do not take up jobs here, but they would spend and help the economy get back to flatline, while migration inflows are negligible because of lack of jobs.

      • joe90 1.2.2

        The young people I mentioned above are leaving provincial NZ for double the income, superior housing and cheaper living. Not because of perceived wage suppression in service industry jobs.

        • weka 1.2.2.1

          sure. I couldn't follow SPC's point, and thought they were talking about people on WHV.

          Also, wage suppression affects more broadly, and is part of why people want to go work in countries where they will get paid more.

    • Drowsy M. Kram 1.3

      The possibility of net migration in the next few months

      Is our CoC govt enActing a National degrowth experiment? Get NZ on a degrowth track!

      Don’t let social service cuts lead us to our lowest point [3 Feb 2025]
      There’s no need for moral panic over public debt, and austerity policies don’t cure recession or debt accumulation – they make it worse

      Fiscal update shows Kiwis paying price for government's austerity, critics say [18 Dec 2024]

      Government for the wealthy keeps pushing austerity [17 Dec 2024]
      “But right now, the Government is redistributing wealth upwards with their trickle-down tax cuts, while gutting public services and infrastructure spending, and shifting costs onto regular people.

      “This is the austerity play book: defund public services to failure, watch them fail, then privatise; take the so-called ‘cost’ off the Government’s books and watch those costs rise for regular people.

      The austerity argument [23 August 2024]
      Economic commentators can argue over whether the country is officially engaged in austerity measures, but they agree there's more pain to come

    • Muttonbird 1.4

      Meanwhile, young Kiwis cannot get jobs. Even basic, entry level roles in retail and hospitality have CVs reams thick on managers' and owners' desks.

      We are told and we tell our kids that work is a way to build skills and confidence for their future and Nicola Willis has taken all that away from them.

  2. Dennis Frank 2

    Trotter does the maths, gets an exact match, thinks it's good for the left:

    Over the 33 years between 1990 and 2023 (and allowing for the aberrant 2020 result) the average level of support enjoyed by the Left and Right blocs, at roughly 44.5 percent each, turns out to be, as near as dammit, identical. http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2025/02/balancing-act.html

    So our electorate has persevered with a balanced use of the left & right: neither tool works as it ought to, but better than nothing. No reason to get excited about democracy – quite the contrary – but better order than chaos. Even if the order has a random warp factor built in that selects nutters at inconvenient times.

  3. Belladonna 3

    I found this (short) analysis of just how unusual New Zealand is, as a first world country which makes most of our money out of agricultural exports.

    I'm sure that more informed commenters from the agricultural background could point out areas where this is a bit once-over lightly – but it made me think about our economy in a different way.

    I know it's older (2 years, or so) – but just happened to pop up in my algorithms.

    NB: some of the images in association with the text were a bit cringy – but it's clearly made by a foreigner 🙂

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