Any party that claims to be “Sustainable” would surely have to propose reducing immigration back to 1980’s levels? New Zealand’s population in 1990 was about 3.3 million. Today it is almost five million. Adding 45,000 non-citizens a year invariably will ...
Labour, and Iain Lees-Galloway in particular, do need to be asked why they are not reducing non-citizen immigration from 45,000 per year to something more sustainable. Adding almost 1000 new citizens a week is driving up house prices and needs to be ...
Iain Lees-Galloway, With housing and rental prices increasingly unaffordable for many, has the Government looked at adjusting the number of work visas issued each year? I'm sure Jacinda Ardern mentioned this in the Election Debates. Bill English childishly...
It's a well known expression for making cosmetic changes to make something appear better than it is. It isn't a s8xist expression. Obama used the same expression in relation to the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008. The GOP said that Obama was suggesting Palin ...
Restricting the residential approval target from 44,000 to about 20,000 per year would get my vote. Having the highest per-capita intake in the world is making housing unaffordable, forcing the expansion of the city limits into market garden & bushland, ...
Sensible policy. Good to see a party actually doing something about one of the fundamental causes of the housing crisis. https://croakingcassandra.com/2015/06/23/immigration-policy-106-per-cent-of-net-new-housing-demand/
The NZ Herald's article was misleading, but that shouldn't be the focus. That simply diverts attention from the policy impact of the current migration targets that National has set. The current levels are the highest per-capita in the world. Michael ...
The NZ Herald's article was misleading, but It's a shame this issue gets diverted from the basic issue of numbers. The current levels are the highest per-capita in the world. Michael Reddell highlights the following benefits if NZ reduced the residence ...
Former Reserve Bank economist Michael Reddell's blog is an excellent resource for anyone wondering whether NZ's current immigration targets make sense from a policy perspective. There certainly seem to be a number of objective economic reasons to ...
The irony is that neo-liberal policy also favours open-borders to allow the easy flow of labour for employers. I think Milton Friedman pointed out that you can't have a welfare state and open borders.
So does Japan, but Japan is not increasing its immigration levels due to strong cultural resistance.
The most obvious issue is the role of non-citizen immigration in driving house prices. NZ has the highest per-capita intake. Michael Reddell has pointed out that the high levels have also raised interest rates & the exchange rate, so reducing the target of...
It's been pretty clear from Trump's message going back to the 1980's that he's not a fan of unrestrained free-trade or neo-liberalism.
Aside from killing off the TPP, today Trump met with Union leaders, he is challenging the neo-liberal consensus. He's not beholden to neo-con ideology. That seems like a refreshing change at least. "The union meeting also included several local union ...
This kind of shallow focus on a candidates race or gender is abhorrent. It also seems to have lead to the bizarre outcome in Hutt South where a local with strong support has missed out apparently because of his gender?
If the government wanted to address housing it could reduce the inward migration target from 50,000 to about 20,000 to allow supply to catch up. The other thing is to remove restrictions on land supply (eg. Houston has population growth without big price ...
Ex-Reserve Bank economist Mike Reddell has written extensively on ...
... chefs. Ex-Reserve Bank’s Mike Reddell: “And then there are...
Coercion is one thing, but family planning and contraception has long been seen as a way to help women out of poverty.
I suspect that National hold the view that neo-liberal view that high immigration levels and overseas investment drive economic success even though they are pushing house prices out of reach for a significant proportion of the population. Ex-Reserve Bank ...
It should be a no-brainer to restrict off-shore buyers. It does also highlight that the liberalisation of immigration policy over the past 30 years has been a significant factor in driving up house prices. Something that ex-Reserve Bank economist Michael ...
Apparently you can't actually buy your own property in China so it is no surprise there is a huge amount of money flowing into property markets including the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Former Reserve Bank economist Michael Reddell has also ...
It seems the media bias is seen to be strongest against UKIP and least against the Conservatives. "YouGov has revisited questions about media bias first run in May 2014. British people still say the news media are most biased against UKIP (43%, compared to...
Isn't the most obvious thing to address demand by restricting overseas investment and reducing immigration levels? Since the 1960's there's been a strong relationship between net population growth via immigration flows and house prices. http://www.rbnz....
Wasn't it thanks to Abbott that NZ were able to attend this conference? The LA Times article seems to be pushing for Australia to have a significantly larger population, while at the same time claiming concern about climate change and the environment. ...
@ Pascal's Bookie, Brash wasn't leader of the Opposition when the Iraq invasion occurred in early 2003. At least Brash is prepared to admit he was wrong and how he regretted not speaking up about that in caucus.
***The Child Poverty Report, released this month, found one in six children going without basic necessities such as a bed, meal or doctor’s visit.*** I think that with the technology now available with birth control shots that these need to be made a part ...
***fucking idiot white dudes bought into the idea that class politics weren’t vote-winners.*** Using racist and sexist references such as the above is not helpful.
@ Felix, A major shortcoming in the analysis I've seen is the assumption that but for equal oportunities groups would all have similar outcome. Only a creationist can believe that diverse cultures and physical environments would shape groups in identical ...
***It’s curious that the so-called “bad” or anti-social behaviour happens more in lower economic areas, with students largely from lower socio-economic backgrounds.*** It is, although the causation is multidirectional. Parents with those behavioural issues...
Unfortunately, I don't have much faith that would have a major impact on educational outcomes as even with equal environments you'll still have major discrepancies due to genes. http://martynemko.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/behavioral-genetics-most-important....
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