Press Release: Stop the War on Tenancies New Zealand’s 290,000 rental property owners should resist radical changes to the Residential Tenancies Act both by submission and by vote in this year’s election, Tenancies War spokesman Mike Butler said on Sunday. The current government has the despicable habit
Professor Anne-Marie Brady Supplementary Submission to the New Zealand Parliament Justice Select Committee Inquiry into Foreign Interference Activities, 2019 * Part One: Magic Weapons * Part Two: Leninist tactic * Part Three: Soft Power * Part Four: Making NZ Serve China * Part Five: Why NZ is of interest to China * Part Six: China’s
It doesn’t matter how much the government tries to beat up landlords, the landlords will always win. It is always the tenant that pays the price, no matter what. Sure, many landlords are affected by scumbag tenants who leave their property in a bad way, or damage it extensively,
When Helen Clark and Michael Cullen introduced Kiwisaver in 2007, the best thing about the scheme was that it was independent of government interference. Sure, contributions are collected by IRD, along with other payroll deductions if you are an employee, but the contributions are then transferred to your fund untouched.
Newshub’s Kate Hawkesby and Maxim Institute’s Julian Wood. Kate: There’s a call for a freeze on temporary work visas and an overhaul of how we… how we welcome migrants into NZ and Maxim Institute Report says we’ve got a short-sighted conveyor belt of low skilled workers
The Coronavirus is rapidly turning into a pandemic. The really worrying thing about this virus is how incredibly easily it passes from human to human. It seems you only have to look at someone with the virus, and you’ve got it. Countries are trying desperately to bring the bug
Arrogant elitist hypocrisy is a byword for the Green-left. The modern-day nomenklatura take it as their right to flit about the globe, from their collections of mansions to luxury resorts, in Business Class and private jets, while sternly lecturing the rest of us to make do with less. Indeed, surveys
William Holy-Hasted Impakter.com Jamie Crummie is the co-founder of TooGoodToGo, a startup tackling food waste around the world. The app allows users to buy left-over food from restaurants at a discounted price at the end of the day. Founded in 2016, the start-up began as a reaction to the
Editor’s Note: For those of us of a certain age, the name “Holden” unleashes waves of sentiment. But growing up with an icon, even loving what it meant, isn’t the same as loving it today. It’s possible to kill a brand, even a beloved one. This morning
Press Release: National Party The Government’s proposals for more regulation in New Zealand’s film industry will put jobs at risk, National’s Workplace Relations and Safety spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Labour, the Greens and New Zealand First are seeking to repeal National’s legislation governing the film industry
Bilbo Baggins Film freelancers could be facing a quadruple whammy of hits in the nearish future: * Global recession if Chinese manufacturing stalls * NZSPG incentives for production investment in NZ going away * Coronavirus on international travel And this… […] “The Screen Industry Workers Bill will restore collective bargaining rights for screen industry
A ‘No Holds Barred’ analysis of the GM / Holden announcement. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Just when you thought the world could not get any more bizarre, a purveyor of the filthy fossil fuels that are essentially carbon, declares that it is going to be ‘net zero by 2050’. Presumably they mean net zero business, net zero profit and net zero point in existing? It
Ashley Church explains why it is a myth that there is a housing crisis: Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years you’ve heard about the shortage of housing in New Zealand. There are variations of the view but the most popular version claims
If you were to believe the green movement’s propaganda, they are the only squeaky-clean troupe of ideologically pure, selfless servants of the people in the entire Australian polity. Graft, corruption, secrecy, dirty politics…there’s none of that kind of goblin mischief going on, down in Fairy Dell. The
The United Nations has not been fit for purpose for a long, long time as it has been taken over by countries who do not have free democracies and who have terrible human rights records. Now the United Nations has gone so far as to use tactics straight out of
