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
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
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
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.
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
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-
Eliora New Zealand is a small country in the South Pacific with its inhabitants described as “The Passionless People”. Gordon McLauchlan, the author of this popular book in 1976, recognised fourth-generation kiwis as easy going, down to earth and enjoying the status quo. Kiwis around the world are known
It doesn’t matter how ethnically diverse your business is; “at least 5% ” of suppliers to HealthSource must have “at least 50% Maori ownership“ or be “a Maori Authority as defined by the Inland Revenue Department.” 5% of suppliers if they want to supply the government must have Business partners
Jordan Williams Free Speech Union We’ve had a number of enquiries over recent weeks about events involving controversial YouTuber Lee Williams (no relation) – who first came to our attention after media reported on apparent “white supremacist statements” and a campaign by the Twitter “community” to have Mr Williams sacked
National are broadly in agreement with the Government’s decision to phase out a range of particularly problematic plastics, National’s Environment spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “There won’t be many New Zealanders who don’t think we have too much plastic in our lives and that much of it,
