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Open the Trans-Tasman Bubble Now!
Judith Collins Leader National Party Yesterday, National launched a petition calling on the Government to get a move on with the trans-Tasman travel bubble. It’s now been signed by over 30,000 people who back our call. Australia has welcomed people quarantine-free from New Zealand since October last year,
How Investors Could Solve the Housing Crisis
Simon Angelo Editor Wealth Morning wealthmorning.com Simon is the Chief Executive Officer and Publisher at Wealth Morning. He has been investing in the markets since he was 17. He recently spent a couple of years working in the hedge-fund industry in Europe. Before this, he owned an award-winning professional-services
National Launches Trans-Tasman Bubble Petition
The National Party has launched a petition calling on the Government to get a move on with the trans-Tasman travel bubble, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “There’s no good reason why we can’t have quarantine-free travel with Australia right now. Australia did it for New Zealanders
Ethical Investing: Whose Ethics?
I don’t know about you, but I want my Kiwisaver to make as much money as possible and I don’t really care about ethics in investing: Minister of Finance Grant Robertson has written to chairs of the Super Fund and ACC, asking them to adopt ethical investment policies
Walmart and Costco Just Gave over 400,000 Workers a Raise despite No Minimum Wage Increase. Here’s Why
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a Eugene S. Thorpe Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Imagine you’re an employee at Walmart. Maybe you’re a single mom working to pay the bills or
Study in Nature Blows Lockdowns Out of the Water
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The most comprehensive analysis yet, comparing Google movement data to Covid-19 deaths has found that lockdown (“stay at home”) had no role in preventing Covid-19 fatalities. The scientific report published in Nature says: “In ~98% of the comparisons using 87 different regions of the
Businesses Deserve Certainty on Australia Bubble
Reports that Tourism Minister Stuart Nash has said a travel bubble with Australia won’t happen until January next year if we’re lucky is creating confusion and will mean many more businesses face closure, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Our tourism businesses continue to struggle, they need
NZ Govt Must Act Unilaterally on Travel Bubble
The Government should make a unilateral decision to have quarantine-free travel with Australia now that we know talks between the two countries have collapsed, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. In Parliament on Wednesday, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed that after 12 rounds of talks over many
Delay to Wage Hike the Only Option
ACT Party ACT Small Business and Workplace Relations spokesperson Chris Baillie. “The case for delaying the April 1 increase to the minimum wage is now so loud and clear surely even this Government can see sense and save even more businesses from going under,” says ACT Small Business and Workplace
Morrison Wants a Travel Bubble; Why Doesn’t Ardern?
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed the only thing holding up a two-way travel bubble with New Zealand is our Government’s lack of urgency, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. When asked by media today on how far away a full travel bubble with New Zealand is,
NZ Can’t Wait Any Longer for a Trans-Tasman Bubble
National is calling on the Government to open the trans-Tasman bubble with Australia to give our desperate tourism sector a much-needed boost and reunite Kiwis with family and friends across the ditch. “New Zealand and Australia have both done well to reduce the threat of Covid-19,” Leader of the Opposition
Age of Consent
Last week, Hamilton hosted the national economic forum at the University of Waikato. Former governor of the Reserve Bank, Alan Bollard, who now chairs the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, made a couple of interesting points. The first was that almost none of the 150 “Shovel Ready” projects totalling $2.6
National Welcomes Lifting of Auckland Lockdown
Lifting the Auckland lockdown will be welcome news to all those people who have slogged their way through Level 3 multiple times now, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. But given the Government’s confidence that this outbreak is under control, National sees no good reason why Auckland can’