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Billion-Dollar Kiwi Industry in Crisis

Conor English Chelsea Rapp, Chair, New Zealand Game Developers Association Information Opinion Australia is setting out to steal one of New Zealand’s most promising and innovative sectors – interactive media. Video games and apps are one of our biggest digital exports, earning over $300m each year, putting the sector up

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Bluebird Cancels Free Speech for Evelyn

Bluebird Cancels Free Speech for Evelyn

This is about one thing: whether an employer should be able to dismiss an employee for a personal opinion expressed outside of work. This isn’t about Evelyn’s particular speech, it’s about the fact that she has the right to express her opinion on this issue, or any

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Twitter Bots or Not?

Twitter Bots or Not?

Craig Bannister newsbusters.org Craig Bannister is an blog editor for CNSNews.com. Following Tuesday’s news that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s original offer to buy Twitter had been accepted by both parties to the deal, prominent conservatives began tweeting complaints that they had suddenly lost thousands of followers

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Govt Website Tells Tourists Not to Book

Govt Website Tells Tourists Not to Book

A Government website telling tourists not to book flights to New Zealand is appalling and must be fixed, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay says. “The Immigration NZ website is informing tourists that the delay in issuing visas is so bad that they should not book their flights to New

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Why the Cost of Fuel Will Increase Next Year

Why the Cost of Fuel Will Increase Next Year

Mark Freeman The closure of the Marsden Point oil refinery in April this year is a serious security threat to New Zealanders, according to an independent report into the closure. Operation Good Oil is a summary report and public awareness campaign by three citizen researchers. The closure poses “a very

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The Fight Against Climate Policies

Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. He previously wrote and

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Marketing Genius Renames Vodafone and Flushes All Brand Recognition

Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Information Satire START AGAIN Vodafone, a very well known telecommunications company with a very recognisable name and logo, have decided the best strategy now is to trash all of that and start from scratch. The phone and internet providers have given up the rights to their

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How to Buy Things That Make You Money

How to Buy Things That Make You Money

Austin Petersen fee.org Austin Petersen is a pundit, entrepreneur, and host of the Wake Up America show which airs Monday-Fridays from 7-9am at WakeUpAmericaShow.com There’s an old saying that still holds true: You have to spend money to make money. The first time you experience having extra

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World’s Largest Trial in the UK

Kontrast.at scoop.me The social democratic magazine Kontrast.at covers current political events, both in Austria and in the rest of the world. We view society, state and economy from a progressive, emancipatory point of view. Kontrast casts the gaze of social justice on the world. The world’s

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The Metaverse: Is Nowhere Going Somewhere?

The Metaverse: Is Nowhere Going Somewhere?

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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Immigration NZ Like a Security Guard at the Border

Immigration NZ Like a Security Guard at the Border

Dr James McDowall ACT Immigration spokesperson Two recent surveys, NZ Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom and BusinessNZ’s Survey of Business Opinion, show that the biggest issue facing New Zealand businesses is skill shortages and immigration. The Government should adopt ACT’s proposals to make it easier for businesses

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National Will Steer the Boat

National Will Steer the Boat

Speech to Financial Services Council Conference It’s my pleasure to be speaking with you today, leaders of New Zealand’s financial service providers. Since I became National’s Finance Spokesperson I’ve really enjoyed meeting many of you and I’m looking forward to getting to know more of

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Survey Suggests NZ Employees Want More Work-Life Flexibility

Survey Suggests NZ Employees Want More Work-Life Flexibility

Wayne Macpherson Beth Tootell Jennifer Scott Kazunori Kobayashi Massey University Wayne [lectures] in international business, strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship at Massey Business School. Jennifer is a Teaching Scholar in Massey Business School, coordinating courses in project management, business and sustainability, and corporate citizenship and social responsibility. Kazunori (Kaz) Kobayashi,

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Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened

Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion Most vaccinated or unvaccinated

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The Golden Egg of COVID-19

The Golden Egg of COVID-19

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Medical corruption has featured throughout human history as reflected in the original Hippocratic Oath which included a promise to “abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption“.  Prior to Covid-19 the negative impacts of medical corruption on the

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