Proof (as if we needed it) that NZ voters are not really ready for radical policy changes, for better or for worse https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12085868
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Proof (as if we needed it) that NZ voters are not really ready for radical policy changes, for better or for worse https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12085868
"As noted in our analysis of the ANZ’s monthly release, there is a downward bias to business sentiment when Labour are in power as businesses worry about new regulations,the lack of business sector familiarity of the MPs,
the eventual loss of fiscal bowel control, infighting by ideology-
driven people, and this time around the fragile nature of the coalition and secret deals not yet revealed to the public.
Arrogance and incompetence basically.
This means we have to be careful not to over extrapolate these results into a
dystopic economic outlook."
Quote from Alexanders weekly over view. Seems to be slightly (?} biased to me but not unexpected given he works for a bank.
The part I do agree with (which received a mention on the AIR NZ thread) was synthetic meat and milk will in the not so distant future have a significant effect on the NZ economy.
westerly
I always that it intriguing and somewhat ironic that in the early stages of the economic boom in the early days of Labour’s last term in the 2000s net migration went from a 10,000 outflow to a 40,000 inflow......50,000 net change in migration over a few years
Yes, as the StatsNZ article and chart shows, in Labour's last term there were three years of medium net immigration, but National's term had four years of higher net immigration than Labour's peak. So a lot more people turned up over that time period.
http://archive.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/Migration/international-travel-and-migration-articles/kiwi-factor-migration
And a lot of those were Kiwis returning home during the GFC and a lot of kiwis not going overseas due to the world economic situation.
Isn't that a good thing if expats like to come home (as they did under National) and Kiwis stay at home instead of queuing up at the departure gates as they did under Helen Clark?
It is really sad to see Labor supporters celebrate that they get rid of our own people - just to make their poor housing policies looking a bit better.
We are nearly one year into this populist government. Just wondering - how many of the 10,000 promised additional houses per year did our government build so far?
EZ — I wasn’t saying net migration was a good or bad thing
What I was pointing out that during the first few years of Labour’s previous tenure there was a significant increase in net migration (~50,000) and the economy roared ahead.
JTs and no doubt your view is that in the economy roared ahead under Labour because of their economic / financial management (in spite of falling business confidence) — my view is that factors like net migration and RBNZ drove that growth rather than any government policy.
I will agree with you if you say the same thing happened during Nationals tenure
I’ve always thought it a bit sad that since the 80s every year there has been a negative net outflow of NZ citizens
From that article — Since 1986, an average of 21,600 more Kiwis have left than arrived back
So over the last 32 years that’s nearly a net 700,000 Kiwis who have deserted NZ. Just as well we allow foreigners to come to this country
Nobody seems to have explained why.
Communism by Stealth .... so says Hooton
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12091904
About a third of my generation - siblings and cousins - went to Australia in their early 20s or so. About 12. None came back. All settled there and raised families.
My sister came back to NZ after her OE and tried to settle but couldn't. Mind you that was Palmerston North. Several others were also from the provinces, some rural.
Small sample but bright lights over the ditch beckoned.