Things have changed a lot in the workplace in the last 30 years, and much of it has been good. Women having babies in the 1980s had no paid parental leave, and may have been allowed to take a few months unpaid leave (if they were lucky), but fathers basically
Now for a boring little piece on tax… but bear with me. It will reveal the pettiness of this government, and how they really, really do despise farmers, tradies and almost anyone who actually works for a living. The Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) rules have 2 types of private vehicles:
Today we accepted a petition from Lindsay Calvi-Freeman signed by nearly 15,000 people. The petition calls for the Government to reverse their decision to remove tax deductibility of interest for landlords, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly and Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis say. “Labour are misrepresenting interest deductibility by
dairyowners.org The Dairy and Business Owners Group is calling on retailers, restaurateurs and business owners to stand for council election in 2022 as part of a ‘business extinction rebellion.’ “You have to wonder if councillors and council managers have shares in Westfield given how they want to destroy retail
Finance Minister Grant Robertson has no plan to fix the severe labour shortage that is crippling New Zealand businesses and will see many more close their doors for good, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “Grant Robertson is sitting by idly and watching as unpicked fruit rots on the
Dr James McDowall ACT Immigration spokesperson The ACT Party will today turn off the lights in solidarity with the Restaurant Association who are suffering from a dire skills shortage. The Hospitality Industry has been hit harder than most by COVID-19. Restaurants were forced to close or restrict numbers as we’
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer, and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. As a reaffirmation of what Abraham Lincoln
Ardern’s political philosophy at its most basic is all about control. This has become more evident this term as her electoral mandate allows her carte blanche to do whatever she wants. We can call her a socialist, a Marxist, even a communist and can point to some truth in
On the weekend a reader e-mailed us about an organisation called Maori Vibes. It’s a office share space in Whangarei openly saying it’s for Maori only. It’s on the main street of the business district. According to their website Maori Vibes is a “dedicated co-working space for
Midge Holding is the co-owner of the small makeup company Minifies in Christchurch. Since she took over the business in 2009, she has been supplying fake blood and other special effects to the New Zealand Defence Force. Now, under the new procurement policy, mandated agencies have to award at least
The Government must cancel its new procurement rules which could see contracts awarded based on ethnicity rather than the best person to do the job, National’s Economic Development spokesperson Todd McClay says. The Government is rolling out a new procurement policy which means up to 5 per cent of
Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor. Kerry has a B.A. in
As The BFD reported last week, lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret is going woke. Its famous catalog is dumping its stock-in-trade of scantily-clad Barbie dolls. Instead, perpetual sourpuss Megan Rapinoe, “plus-sized” Paloma Elsesser and some bloke in a dress are its latest figureheads. But is this yet another case of
Michael McCaffrey rt.com Michael McCaffrey is a writer and cultural critic who lives in Los Angeles. His work can be read at RT, Counterpunch and at his website mpmacting.com/blog. He is also the host of the popular cinema podcast Looking California and Feeling Minnesota. The document is
Mark Cameron ACT Rural Affairs spokesperson A new Bill from the ACT Party drawn today will ensure the baton of environmental regulations is given to regional councils and taken out of the hands of Wellington bureaucrats. In recent years farmers have been hammered by regulations put in place by Government
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government is creating further ethnic division with its procurement policy of requiring firms to favour ‘Maori businesses’ hitting the inboxes of firms that contract to Government up and down the country. The policy is one for elite Maori, those who are in business. For working-class
