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Nearly 400 a Day Out of Work Over Lockdown

Nearly 400 a Day Out of Work Over Lockdown

Press Release: National Party The first full week of lockdown cost nearly 400 New Zealanders their jobs every day, National’s Finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. Statistics from the Ministry for Social Development show that in the week till 21 August a total of 2,717 Kiwis joined the now

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Perspective

Perspective

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seven people died on New Zealand roads on the weekend. That was not a headline story. But imagine if seven people had died of the COVID virus. We’d be back to full lockdown panic mode. From the beginning, back eight months, all governments were

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Turning Cities Into Ghost Towns

Turning Cities Into Ghost Towns

Dr Oliver Hartwich nzinitiative.org.nz Walking around central Wellington, more shops are boarded up. On Lambton Quay, two bank branches recently disappeared. Just as the two Burger Kings on Lambton Quay and Courtney Place. Walking down Featherston St, there are empty shops every 40 or 50 metres. Reports from

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Easing Border Pains

Easing Border Pains

Roger Partridge nzinitiative.org.nz In mid-April, German sewerage experts were allowed through New Zealand’s tightly controlled border with the country still locked down at Alert Level 4. At the time, Wellington ratepayers were paying nearly $100,000 a day to ferry wastewater by truck from the city’s

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National Works to Support Southland Jobs

National Works to Support Southland Jobs

Judith Collins National Party Leader national.org.nz A National Government will facilitate negotiations between Rio Tinto, power companies and Transpower to achieve a more cost-competitive environment to keep the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter open. New Zealand is losing thousands of jobs every week due to the largest economic crisis

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A Dangerous Government

A Dangerous Government

The work is being done in Phil Twyford’s office. More alarm bells are ringing. Twyford says the work is at an early stage. If that’s the case then it’s not too late to stop it. This should be done immediately. The last thing we need is the

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Business Consortium Challenges Hamilton City Council

Business Consortium Challenges Hamilton City Council

A consortium of nineteen major businesses have banded together to take Hamilton City Council to court in a case that will have implications for all councils. The subject matter is a judicial review of the council’s ‘development contributions policies’. Before your eyes glaze over, there is a simple explanation.

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More Jobs Going to China from Both Sides of the Tasman

More Jobs Going to China from Both Sides of the Tasman

Another day, another announcement that more jobs in Australia and New Zealand are being killed off by the Wuhan pandemic. To add insult to injury in this case, though, they’re not disappearing, they’re moving. Right to the communist nation that unleashed the pandemic in the first place. Vitamins

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BEER! storage signage

China Can Take Our Farms, but They Shall Never Have Our Beer!

For years, Australians have watched with helpless fury as more and more Australian businesses and real estate were taken over by Chinese-owned firms. This is not reciprocal trade or foreign investment: it’s a rapacious grab by the communist giant (even “private” Chinese companies are, by law, overseen by the

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Ministry’s Opaque Travel Exemption Process Suffocating Businesses

Ministry’s Opaque Travel Exemption Process Suffocating Businesses

Press Release: ACT Party “The Ministry of Health’s opaque process for Auckland travel exemptions is suffocating local businesses,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government needs to be open and transparent about how efficiently the process is working. “How many applications for exemptions have been received, approved and declined?

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This COVID Farce Must End

This COVID Farce Must End

If the Prime Minister has any political nous at all she will end this current COVID farce and let everyone get on with a normal life as many appear to be doing anyway. Phil Goff is telling us that we must stay local. If Phil liked to take a drive

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