A Kiwi butcher has been hailed a Lockdown Hero this week after he went to work helping a competing store put food on the shelves.
Reuben Sharples, who owns Aussie Butcher in New Lynn, went to work slicing and dicing at New World Green Bay to keep the grocery store stocked with meat.
The store was recently named a location of interest for Covid-19 and 30 per cent of its staff are at home self-isolating.
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Most people serving in parliament earn more than they would get elsewhere. That is a powerful influence on their behavior.
Will it happen here? Probably. Eventually. So far we’ve been lucky.
If iwi keep inventing new privileges under Article Two of the Treaty, then the Crown should use Article Three which says that Māori rights and duties are the same as those of everyone else.
The most basic current flaw in the New Zealand economy lies with our low wage levels.
