Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Sprawled out, in reply to daleaway,
Whatareyagunnado?
It's a bigger dynamic than we can control. I'd still push for regional economic development, but it's probably best focused on each area's existing strengths.
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Southerly: Happy to Help (If I Can), in reply to Russell Brown,
gee, wonder why the industry has trouble.
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Southerly: Happy to Help (If I Can), in reply to Russell Brown,
the 2003 word-rate
you mean it has gone down since ?
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Southerly: Happy to Help (If I Can), in reply to David Hood,
roads scholar
boom!
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Southerly: Happy to Help (If I Can), in reply to Emma Hart,
the boy next door to us was literally stoned to death because he was disabled
practical eugenics
#blesstheprovinces -
the brown kids who walked home with me
I'm always grateful for learning young how my Maori friends saw people and the world. Acceptance is gold. Lifelong challenge to live up to..
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Speaker: Sprawled out, in reply to daleaway,
Healing the regions by putting the jobs (and many of the immigrants) there will also heal Auckland's woes, but few are even suggesting looking in this direction for an answer. Yet it's such an obvious starting point.
Sadly, that's not what most relevant research and policy evidence says. The world is moving towards competing city-states/regions again rather than nations.
Scale counts for providing both business-to-business relationships and infrastructure needs, and the equivalent cultural and social opportunities for residents. Planners talk about benefits of 'agglomeration'.
Regions around Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Tauranga have some great niche opportunities, but only Auckland feasibly has the scale to beat overseas competitors for talent and investment.
We can certainly encourage other regions to focus enough on one or two economic niches to prevail on a world stage. But that requires governments prepared to back such decisions for longer than 6 years.
Otherwise we have low-value tourism and primary production jobs to offer our children. Gee, wonder if they'll move somewhere else?
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roflnui
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The theory is that NGOs need oversight from financiers, cos moneymen are gods.
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Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to Joe Boden,
prior support of free trade deals (she is now opposed to the TPP)
perhaps because it is not a 'free' trade deal