Posts by David Hood
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to Sacha,
The statistical explanation is the rejection of the null hypothesis - that nothing unusual is going on. The alternative hypothesis, foreign investment, is not proven but the correlation of local Indians to local Chinese ethnicities makes the foreign investment explanation more likely.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to Sacha,
Technically, labour seems to be talking about the foreign investors that can be identified as Chinese through a statistical patterns, rather than individual cases or foreign investors that cannot be identified because Australians have the same kind of surnames.
the argument is not, as I understand it that the Chinese people here are in anyway responsible for the boom more than any other group. The argument is that, on the basis of PRC names, there is a statistical anomaly in house purchases that can plausably be explained by an additional pool of foreign speculators which do not seem to be present in the case of Indian surnames and is unidentifiable in the case of Australian hot money (at least unidentifiable in this manner )
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It is pretty trival to settle the arguments about local (living here) Indians and the degree of similarity with Chinese with a census area unit based correlation.,
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Nobody got to upset when the Australians began buying up in NZ in the early 2000s after Australian tax authorities allowed negative gearing on overseas investment properties. But then, the 1 month after Australian tax changes to 2007 foreign buying was by people with European New Zealander sounding surnames.
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About 24 hours later, after about 12 hours of not raining, the Leith has almost fallen enough to be back inside its watercourse.
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April threads bring May Showers. May Showers bring surface flooding. Water of the Leith, Otago Univeristy.
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I remember a survey many years ago that NZ managers rated themselves much higher than managers in most other countries rated themselves.
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I thought I’d see what happens if I took a couple of pictures the way I was reading Mad Max’s night scenes were done- Massively (3-4 stops) underexposured + blue filter, and brought back up. With my old camera it created an odd effect.
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Speaker: Sex, monsters and outrage, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
My daughter got herself out of the required Revolutions Tour visit to the school by making it clear (with my support) that if she was forced to go she would need to preserve her mental health from the Tour's pressures by challenging the Tours history, tactics, and goals.
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To me, part of the character is "I wish you well in doing your thing, but don't try and co-opt me into doing your thing on your terms as I have my thing. And if my thing includes your thing it will be on my terms". I see a few consequences of this:
1) New Zealander's are good generalists
2) New Zealander's are rubbish at asking for help
3) NZer's tend to cringe at campaigns of any sort rather than joining in.Of course, that is filtered through my being a well educated liberal. And while my major leisure activity would probably fall into the census category of volunteering, if it was part of a movement or campaign I would probably be uncomfortable.
