Posts by SHG
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I have an IRD number and bank account of my own. Does that mean I'm "hard-working Kiwi money" not "foreign money"?
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I'm a non-Chinese New Zealand citizen living outside of New Zealand. If I own property in New Zealand am I "foreign money"?
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Steve Curtis,
They all go after the buyers no matter where they come from.
And without knowing whether or not all the agencies have Chinese-language websites, or partner with Chinese agencies, and how effective they are in doing so, and whether they all did exactly the same things in the 3-month period, we have no idea whether B&T's "Chinese name" buyer data means anything at all.
WHICH IS THE WHOLE POINT
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From the B&T website, where it talks about why you should choose B&T to sell your house instead of some other agency:
http://www.barfoot.co.nz/about-us/our-partners
Our partnership with HouGarden puts your property in front of the Chinese market. Your property is advertised on the website, giving you exposure to non-english speaking audiences./facepalm
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Keith Ng,
The data is not robust. It's for one company over a period of three months. It doesn't take variations between companies or seasonal effects into account.
It's for one company <i>that specifically targets Chinese-speaking house buyers in its marketing</i>.
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How the fuck do you tell someone's ethnicity from their surname?
This is flat-out racism from Labour, and Rob Salmond you should be ashamed of yourself.
Sickening.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Dean Wallis,
"What we won't be doing is what he has done now for so long, which is give the appearance of a happy-go-lucky chappy but run the vilest, nastiest smear machine we have ever seen in New Zealand politics. We will be calling him out on that."
Because if there's one thing that the Left did wrong at the last election, it's not talking about Dirty Politics long enough or loudly enough.
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Cosgrove's behaviour should have come as no surprise to anyone. He did exactly the same thing in 2011.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Kumara Republic,
David Cunliffe goes to show, for lack of a better analogy, that good captains don't always make for good generals.
And boy, if you're a good general you sure don't want David Cunliffe being a good captain behind you.
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It appears to me that Labour's problems are twofold:
1. Labour doesn't have a clear reason to exist any more. "We're not National but don't worry, we're not as crazy as the Greens" is hardly a compelling mission statement.
2. The pool of talent for potential Labour leaders is horrifyingly shallow. There's nobody in Labour who could go take them up against a Key-led National Party. Hell, there's nobody in Labour who could take them up against a Muldoon-led National Party.