Posts by Katharine Moody
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Russell Brown,
Willie Jackson is one of my favourite of all-time NZ politicians - along with David Lange. Completely different personalities. Both made plenty of wrong calls, but both humble enough to recognise them. Both with their heart in the right place and both extremely intelligent. And no, I'm not related to either - nor am I in anyway an insider (met both only once) - but everyone needs to have their heroes :-).
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Sacha,
Still, which team would you put money on to spin their way out of this without shoving their feet in their mouths?
Spin their way out of what - the Auckland housing crisis, or foreign direct investment in our housing stock?
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Russell Brown,
as a meltdown on the Left.
Oh, I see. But that meltdown is likely confined (largely) to member/funders of the Labour Party.
I’ve been reading a lot of the social media commentary on this (including that type of commentary on MSM sites). What the actual media are saying is pretty irrelevant to my interests (anyone writing a publicly available article or blog is part of an ‘elite’ grouping of some sort or another). What’s most interesting to me are the general public comments – and that might also be why DF is worried.
PS. By media as an ‘elite’ I don’t mean elite in a negative sense – rather in the sociological sense.
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Sacha,
Labour are, yes.
In what way do you think Labour are helping National gain increased support, I wonder?
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to David Hood,
Which is a long time in internet disagreement years.
But which is a very short time in getting to understanding the crux of the matter years!
I've been concerned about what is driving this housing madness since about 2002.
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to David Hood,
David, this data/analysis will be of interest to you;
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to BenWilson,
if there were somewhere the debate could continue in which that angle is strictly avoided from the start as a premise for discussion.
I'd personally be really interested if PAS could approach David Hood to do a short piece presenting the information/data analysis he has done in considering offshore capital flows finding their way direct into our local residential housing market.
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OnPoint: Don't put words in our mouths, Rob, in reply to Bart Janssen,
If that is true, again it convinces me that you should have no role in managing this country.
I think the most important criteria when judging a particular ‘elite’ in relation to its suitability to rule is respect for the rule of law.
The controversy over the use of this data for this purpose is (to my mind) fundamentally a human rights issue. Such issues underpin the very fabric of our society. For this reason, this is the criteria on which I judge any incumbent or contender – i.e., on their actions in either upholding the rule of law with respect to human rights, or their actions in challenging breaches of the rule of law by other ‘elites’.
The Law Society reports to a UN Committee on this very matter – that is, the incumbent governments actions in upholding or breaching human rights in New Zealand. Their 2014 report is here;
But of even more import/interest is their comment on the Government’s treatment of their report/concerns regards human rights breaches in its final report to the UN;
Disappointingly, the Law Society’s concerns were not addressed in the final report. For example, no reference was made to the enactment of Bill of Rights-inconsistent legislation, to the issues with the reporting mechanism, nor to any of the Law Society’s rule of law concerns.
To my mind, there are much bigger fish to fry in terms of intentional, unlawful breaches of our human rights protections in New Zealand – we have a Government who refuses to acknowledge such breaches, who hides them from international attention/scrutiny and who continues to commit them with little to no regard for the rule of law.
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Polity: A week on from the housing controversy, in reply to SHG,
I’m a non-Chinese New Zealand citizen living outside of New Zealand. If I own property in New Zealand am I “foreign money”?
If you converted an overseas currency to make that purchase, yes. More so if you leveraged that purchase (borrowed) in an overseas jurisdiction.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to David Hood,
Yes, the more one looks into it - if one really wants reliable data on offshore foreign ownership of residential dwelling units, then a register is perhaps the best the way to go.