ACT Party: Last week, the prime minister was on the international stage and in the glare of global media where she normally excels. But she seriously stumbled by lecturing our friend and closest ally, Australia, about their climate change record. (This follows her earlier criticism of Australia’s immigration laws.
Duncan Garner has written one of the silliest and most patronising articles of all time. At a time when the OCR has reached an all-time low, and everyone knows it cannot mean happy times ahead, Garner has bought into the myth that, as business hates Labour governments, all that
Is Silicon Valley killing the American cowboy? And what does a $100 chicken nugget taste like? He crosses the US to find answers, meeting the cattlemen, lawmakers and Silicon Valley up-starts who are locked in a high stakes battle over the future of our food. Craig Reucassel reports on
New Conservative party Government has demonstrated its contempt for developers and the construction industry in its handling of the Ihumatao protest. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has this morning tried to simplify this issue, suggesting it is about talks between Maori who are seeking a “for Maori by Maori solution.” She
Why is it, I wonder, that we as Kiwis keep letting businesses reduce their service, but we still stay with them? We are all familiar with our favourite chocolate bars being reduced in size without the price being reduced, but I have noticed an increasing trend when it comes to
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Where Australia leads New Zealand often follows, so you can expect this latest story to impact us Kiwis in the not too distant future. Residents have been left outraged over a Perth council’s plans to launch a new policy aimed at reducing the amount of unhealthy food being sold
Roman poet Virgil warned us to “beware of Greeks bearing gifts”, but Greeks today might well warn everyone else to be wary of the EU bearing gifts. The British can also tell us a thing or two about Brussels’s overbearing arrogance. Australian farmers are justifiably concerned that they’re
Facebook got all high and mighty and banned crypto currency advertisments to look after their users, who obviously could not possibly think for themselves. Facebook has said it will block any advertising promoting crypto-currency products and services. The company said it was open to emerging technologies but many companies
If you thought compulsory insulation, compulsory kitchen and bathroom fans and compulsory fixed heaters were enough, you are going to be disappointed. More than a year ago, the government announced that rental losses were going to be ringfenced. This has now passed into law… not that you would know about
The Plastic Bag Stasi are out in force and have dobbed in Kiwis who have displayed good old Kiwi ingenuity. When laws are stupid clever people find ways around them using legal loopholes. One small business owner has done just that so that they stay within the law but the
From the very beginning, Google adopted as its corporate motto and code of conduct the phrase “Don’t be evil.” Back then, it was a phrase that embodied what Google’s founders stood for. They have, in more recent times, removed that pledge which is not surprising given how they
Last week, Property Council CEO Leonie Freeman was talking on The AM Show about the upcoming ‘reset’ of Kiwibuild. In part of her segment, she opined: quote. “It’s important to understand there’s a lot going on… Kiwibuild is just one part of it. I liken it to a
Financial activism has long been one of the favourite tools for the left to punish Wrongthink. Not that the right is immune, as recent boycott campaigns have shown, but the left have raised the tactic to a dark and dubious art. By the 1980s, vexatious lawfare, particularly by race-activist
