Peter Allan Williams peterallanwilliams.substack.com Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week It’s the end of civilization as we know it. McDonald’s is coming to Wanaka – providing the development friendly
Apisalome Movono Regina Scheyvens Sophie Auckram Massey University The three party leaders currently negotiating to form New Zealand’s next government might have their differences, but they seem to agree on one thing: the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme needs to expand. New Zealand, like Australia, faces critical labour shortages
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz New Zealand’s corporate lobbyists are currently carrying out major manoeuvres in order to ensure they are in the best
Trish Keeper Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com When independent supermarket startup Supie went bust last month, the company’s 120 employees were told they wouldn’t be paid for their last two weeks of work, or receive any of their owed annual leave pay. The subsequent appointment of voluntary
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
John Klar libertynation.com Since its development as an integral part of genetically modified organism (GMO) cropping, glyphosate – the active weed-killing ingredient in Roundup – has attracted controversy over whether it causes human disease, particularly non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Previous jury verdicts have been split, with some finding liability and others not. Bayer,
One of the peculiarities about my business organisation is the absence of staff turnover: nobody ever leaves except to retire. I pride myself on having never read a CV or other nonsense and having an ability to look people over and decide whether they are suitable or not. My success
Arthur We’ve read about it and in some cases seen the results. A business suddenly has a brain explosion and decides to adopt some hare-brained scheme. Often this seems to be an attempt to ride what is seen as a trend or movement in society. Sometimes, considering those factors,
Gabriela Pariseau Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Arlington Catholic Herald, Students For Life of America and Iowa
Paul Haskell-Dowland Mohiuddin Ahmed Edith Cowan University Mark A Gregory RMIT University theconversation.com Optus customers woke up Wednesday morning to find they were unable to get their social media fix, and they weren’t happy. Around 4am AEDT, customers started to report an inability to access both mobile and
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Is it a problem that lobbying firms are being given contracts by government departments? Such firms, who assist private businesses
Jack Spencer Jack Spencer is a senior research fellow for energy and environmental policy at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com These mandated standards, which came into effect this year, are enforced through the Building Energy Performance Standards program, which requires that building
David Brady, Jr David Brady is a Catholic libertarian and economics and finance undergraduate student at Florida Southern College. He is a co-host of the “Econphonics” podcast and a Mises Apprentice. mises.org In light of Nobel Prizes being given to two researchers of mRNA Covid-19 vaccinations, beltway establishments like
Bruce Drushel Miami University theconversation.com When businesspeople retire at an advanced age, it seldom makes headlines. But when 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch announced in September that he was stepping away from his multicontinent media empire and turning it over to his son Lachlan, it was breaking news that generated countless
Mark Tsagas University of East London theconversation.com AI chatbots are already widely used by businesses to greet customers and answer their questions – either over the phone or on websites. Some companies have found that they can, to some extent, replace humans with machines in call centre roles. However, the
Bernard Walker University of Canterbury Danaë Anderson Victoria University of Wellington Julienne Molineaux Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com Whether you are a worker or an employer, the office or factory floor is likely to move under your feet over the next three years. Every change of government sees a
