Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Ruawai Dairy Farmer ACT welcomes the Far North Council doing the right thing and dropping the plans to confiscate land from farmers and iwi. Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage Significant Natural
Girish Kuruvilla owns Refuel Jo, a late-night burger joint that prides itself on being open until 4am for “food and party”. But he won’t employ Indians there – despite being of Indian ethnicity himself – because it’s “a New Zealand shop” and he wants to give job opportunities to
I am in Westport. We own three properties here. Westport is, as most of you know, on the mighty Buller River, but it also has a feeder river called the Orowaiti. Last weekend, with extremely heavy rains – one could accurately say biblical rains – both rivers flooded, but mainly the Orowaiti,
Damien Smith ACT Associate Finance spokesperson ACT is today asking for feedback about the anti-money laundering legislation passed by the National Government in 2009. We understand the need to protect New Zealand from criminal activity and that we have international obligations, but since its implementation, there have been regular
David Seymour ACT Leader MIQ is the bottleneck starving the New Zealand economy of the skilled people businesses need to grow and compete. ACT has a plan to expand MIQ places and make it safer than what the Government is doing now. Under ACT’s plan, owners of currently mothballed
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Dr James McDowall ACT Immigration spokesperson ACT would dump Labour’s ‘once in a generation’ immigration reset. Immigration reform may be needed in the future, but right now we need certainty. ACT would signal a return to the pre-COVID immigration settings as soon
ACT Party ACT has today released the third in our series of Honest Conversations documents, this one about the economy. “Kiwis want a fair go. If you work hard, you should be rewarded, but under the Labour Government it feels like people are rewarded for doing nothing while hardworking taxpayers
Roberto Musotto Edith Cowan University David S. Wall University of Leeds New research is questioning the popular notion that cybercriminals can make millions of dollars from the comfort of home — and without much effort. Our paper, published in the journal Trends in Organised Crime, suggests offenders who illegally sell cybercrime
Gareth streetfoodguy.com Gareth Johnson is the founder of Young Pioneer Tours, a published writer, and all round entrepreneur. He enjoys street food, and encourage others to get paid to travel the world. How to successfully work from home? Working from home used to be the domain of the extremely
Labour is using Covid-19 as the justification for imposing new costs on employers in the form of an extra week of paid sick leave for each employee, but the real reason is because their union mates have been applying the pressure, National’s Workplace Relations spokesperson Scott Simpson says.
Bryce Edwards Political Roundup It’s nearly a week since the “Howl of a Protest” took place throughout the country, and we’re still talking about the rural revolt. What are the farmers’ concerns? Are they legitimate? Has the rural-urban divide become too deep, and will any of this
When we were talking about Capital Gains Tax a few years ago, I was told by a tax specialist that there would never be enough tax revenue from the sale of only non-owner-occupied property, and that, at some point, after CGT had been introduced, it would be extended
Since Labour has been in Government New Zealand’s cybersecurity ranking has taken a serious hit, National’s Digital Economy & Communications spokesperson Melissa Lee says. The recently released United Nations ITU Global Cybersecurity Index shows New Zealand’s ranking plunging from 19 in 2017 down to 48 in 2021.
The appointment by Grant Robertson of a long-standing union official to the board of Air New Zealand is another example of poor judgement by the Minister, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “Mr Robertson does not appear to be acting in the best interests of Air New Zealand
