They are willing to close their eyes to the purchase of more and more good farmland for subsidised pine trees planted by offshore investors. Some 200,000 hectares have gone just lately and more are following. More rural communities are being devastated. Lower export receipts. Everyone suffers.
Owen Jennings
The denials and corrections are piling up. Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work is a work of fiction and a thin one at that.
Stuff is a corporate train wreck and nothing Sinead Boucher and her team of executives do or say gives me any confidence whatsoever.
We don’t need more taxes. And we surely don’t need to buy supermarkets. There’s a lesson in our education success. Let’s pick some major themes. Let’s develop a good plan and make good ministers and good executives responsible for delivering successful outcomes.
“Dirty Work”, Nicky Hager’s latest low-voltage thunderbolt, fails to impress.
A 20 per cent SME rate is not a magic wand that will rebuild the country on Tuesday. It leaves more of the profit with the people who hire. Applaud that.
A curriculum lead was filmed telling staff the minister’s feedback was “OIA-able” and should stay out of writing. Now the chief ombudsman is formally investigating, and Erica Stanford says it’s a matter for her chief executive.
