Movie mogul James Cameron is continuing his buy-up of New Zealand property; Stuff reports:
Movie mogul James Cameron has continued to snap up land in Wairarapa, adding a further three properties to his growing Kiwi empire.The Overseas Investment Office has given Cameron the green light to buy nearly 30 hectares in south Wairarapa, where he already owns over 1000ha of farmland.Spread across three properties on Western Lake Rd, the prices are all listed as confidential.The OIO summary of Cameron's latest purchase states that the director plans to reside "indefinitely" in New Zealand with his family."They are acquiring the land as part of a larger acquisition of land in South Wairarapa, which they will use as a residence and working farm, " it states.Cameron and wife Suzy Amis have said they want to raise their children - 10-year-old twins Claire and Quinn, and Elizabeth Rose, 5 - "close to the land and with a strong work ethic".It is believed Cameron paid about $20 million in January for two large rural Wairarapa properties, one a 250ha dairy farm, the other a much larger 817ha hillside property overlooking Lake Pounui - a lake he also now owns.
So we can't help but wonder; where is the outrage from David Shearer and Winston Peters? Where is the rhetotric about New Zealanders "becoming tenants in their own land"? Will Peters repeat his assertion that this "has been a shonky, jack-up job between Prime Minister John Key, his ministers, and the communist government of China."?
13 comments:
"Will Peters repeat his assertion that this "has been a shonky, jack-up job between Prime Minister John Key, his ministers, and the communist government of China."?
Oh; hang on; James Cameron is from Canada, not from China."
You've answered your own ridiculous rhetorical question. Again, your arguments are not worth responding to and the tone of your post is like a piece of gravel caught in the internet's gumboot. Have you considered getting a hobby?
It is all out of whack in parliament at the moment isn't it? You've got 'left' parties being all xenophobic and not wanting Chinese investment and then the 'right' party not wanting to cut gov spending by planning to raise the retirment age. Who knows what a mess it will be in the lead up to the 2014 election!
Thank goodness the Greens have kept a true line and look at how their popularity has increased! Their good management contrasts starkly with the mess both National; and Labour have made of themselves. The stability you get from having a male and female co-leader is making all the difference. It's also good when the MPs aren't 'on the take', like the others. National man John Banks typifies all that is sick about those old dinosaur parties, National and labour.
What on earth does that have to do with land sales to foreigners Robert?
nellie was discussing the 'left' and 'right' parties, the confused state they are in and the 2014 election, Keeping Stock. On a blog, commenters sometimes refer to each others comments, not just the bloggers post. It seems like things are getting wildly out of control when that happens, I know, but if you go with the flow, roll with the punches, you can end up with a quite entertaining thread and democracy might even settle on the blog like an angel on a cloud.
Point taken Robert
Yeah, sorry to hijack the thread KS but Robert is right (did I really say that), especially in that the Greens are doing a masterful job of keeping out of trouble and not scaring people off, while the 'others' are a bit like chickens with their heads cut off. Ultimately the MSM are only interested in what they can flog off as news and then the people who decide the government will follow along with the 'news'. I'm certainly glad voting isn't compulsory - we'd have an even bigger melting pot leading to even less actual policy and decision making...
No problem Nellie; and in fact it was good of you to mention how good the Greens have been in the House, because it gives me the opportunity to mention this exception last week when Russel Norman let the mask slip for a moment:
http://keepingstock.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/russel-blots-his-copybook.html
I do believe that if you (and really mean the MSM as it IS what you are trying to do) peeled away the current good public face of the GP, then the policies etc they advocate (and their associated costs) would make a lot of people think again about supporting them - unfortunately I suppose my point really is that those that ultimately decide ultimately who will be the government aren't into 'thinking' about issues very much..
No argument from me on that count. For a start, my wage bill would go up by around 15%, because I would have to increase everyone's pay if the minimum wage went up to $15/hr (although they are now pushing for a "living wage" of around $18/hr). My businesses could not sustain that, and I would have to either cut hours or FTE's; we run at break-even as it is. Taxes would go up, compliance costs would go through the roof, and the balance between workers' rights and employers' rights would be slewed again. That's just the start of it!
"it was good of you to mention how good the Greens have been in the House, because it gives me the opportunity to mention this exception last week"
Keeping Stock Gold!
Key was, quite rightly, called a chicken in the House.
You Keeping Stock, have made a play here, for the title 'turkey'.
And I mean that in the nicest possible way, KS.
No, no, no, Inv. You see, sales of farmland to Chinese (gasp) corporations = BAD. Sales of farmland to mild-mannered Canadian media mogul (whose politics sit somewhere between the Chicoms and Mau ZeDong himself) = GOOD.
See how that works? It ain't racist though.
Point 2: no sane person could ever read the watermelon party's policy platform and ever vote for them, if they value liberty, a decent standard of living and, you know, breathing.
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