Labour’s new approach to international tourism is a shocker. The media loves to call Trump crass, yet they don’t seem to mind when Stuart Nash, Labour’s Minister for Tourism, demonises some international tourists with the extremely crass comment that they “shit in our waterways”. What a fine
Anca C. Yallop Auckland University of Technology Most people these days are aware that what they share online is both valuable and vulnerable. Data privacy has become a major concern for consumers and corporations alike. The issue will come to a head when New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 comes
The opening of the UAE market to Israeli agricultural produce comes weeks after the two countries signed the historic Abraham Accords to undertake reciprocal initiatives to establish diplomatic and business links, promote investment and tourism and launch direct flights. The Fresh Market in Dubai’s Ras Al Khor area, opened
Whenever you see a dog or cat on a Vegan diet you know it is not the unfortunate animal that is the vegan but the owner and it looks like Purina is jumping onto the insect protein bandwagon so that virtue signalling owners can talk about how Snuffles is on
Simon Black Bahia Beach, Puerto Rico sovereignman.com In early 1948, a group of US Air Force officers were working on a secret research project in the California desert codenamed MX981. The purpose of MX981 was to test how extreme gravitational forces from fast-moving fighter jets would impact the human
Marcus Roberts mercatornet.com Marcus Roberts was two years out of law school when he decided that practising law was no longer for him. He therefore went back to university and did his LLM while tutoring. He now teaches contract and torts law. Aside from law, his passions include reading
Michael Rectenwald mises.org/wire/google-election Michael Rectenwald was a Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University (retired). [This is the transcript of the eponymous talk presented at the Mises Institute’s Ron Paul Symposium on November 7, 2020, in Angleton, Texas.] “Don’t be evil” may no longer
Katherine Kirkwood Queensland University of Technology After 35 years in Australia, the last plates of cheese toast will soon be served at Sizzler’s nine remaining outlets across Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia. The family-friendly restaurant, famous for the all-you-can-eat salad bar and cheesy TV ads, was once
So-called “economic nationalism” – the desire of local consumers to purchase locally made goods and push back against the “offshoring” ways of globalism – has been a bubbling undercurrent in Australian politics for years. The Wuhan plague has brought it to the surface. Surveys are showing that Australians are keen to ditch
With a cheerleading media failing to ever hold our hopeless government to account it pays to read international media to get some critical reporting on serious matters. Our media are too focused on what Clarke Gayford tweeted or who Jacinda Ardern has hugged lately. Meanwhile, our government is splurging out
Tiger Tiger is a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world. Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. Business – the silent crisis. There is an unacknowledged crisis looming in New Zealand business courtesy of our politician imposed, and woke media and
ACT Party “There’s nothing sadder than someone who tries being knocked back by others’ needless restrictions, as is the case with Brett Heap,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Brett Heap is a pioneer of the horticulture industry. His courgettes are rotting on the ground because he can’t get
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Again the effects of welfarism are manifested in waste and frustration. New Zealand is heading into peak harvest season and there aren’t enough workers to get fruit off trees or vegetables from the ground. “This could be my last crop,” says Heap, who grows
Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan Deakin University Yoko Ono once noted: “people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them”. Witches were maligned for centuries because of their perceived dark power and influence — but could this fear have stemmed from their commercial success? Witches have been savvy business women
Tasmania is famous for producing some of the world’s best seafood, wine and lamb. Not that Tasmanians ever get much chance of enjoying the bounty of their own state: even if we’re prepared to pay through the nose for certain local produce, we end up getting the leavings
