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Can NZ Change How It Does Tourism?

Can NZ Change How It Does Tourism?

Regina Scheyvens Apisalome Movono Massey University Regina Scheyvens is Professor of Development Studies at Massey University, where she combines a passion for teaching about international development with research on tourism and sustainable development. Dr. Apisalome Movono has an undergraduate background in Marine Management and Tourism Studies and completed his Master

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Lockdown Was the Best Thing Ever!

Lockdown Was the Best Thing Ever!

Hasn’t lockdown been just the greatest thing ever? Staying at home on full pay, sitting on the couch in your pyjamas with your laptop, waiting for the latest Uber Eats or Amazon delivery. Sure, the kids got underfoot, but that’s nothing an iPad or Nintendo Switch can’t

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The Straw That Breaks Small Businesses Back

The Straw That Breaks Small Businesses Back

Data from Retail NZ showing retailers expect prices to rise 7.5 per cent in the next three months should be a wake-up call for the Government, says National’s Finance Spokesperson Nicola Willis. “This price-hike warning will send another wave of anxiety through squeezed Kiwi households already struggling to

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What Will Musk Do With Twitter?

What Will Musk Do With Twitter?

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Is This a Win for Freedom?

Is This a Win for Freedom?

I have something of a love-hate relationship with Elon Musk. On the one hand, his flagship Tesla company only survives courtesy of rent-seeking on a colossal scale. If the raft of government subsidies were removed, the company would vanish under a mountain of debt overnight. On the other hand, his

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Don’t Like Woke Business? What Are You Going to Do?

Don’t Like Woke Business? What Are You Going to Do?

It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote an article regarding the culture war in the entertainment industry. I would like to follow that up with another way to fight the culture war. That is in the business world. I’m sure that I’m not alone in thinking

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China Locks Down Its Financial Hub

China Locks Down Its Financial Hub

Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. Some 25 months after their infamous Wuhan lockdown, the Chinese government has launched an even more ambitious lockdown campaign, this time in Shanghai, the country’s biggest city. This time, the stakes are even higher. The Shanghai lockdown is

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Did Elon Musk Just Save Free Speech?

Did Elon Musk Just Save Free Speech?

Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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Musk Slams Woke Corporate ESG Standards

Musk Slams Woke Corporate ESG Standards

Jeffrey Clark newsbusters.org Jeffrey Clark currently serves as a staff writer and researcher for the Media Research Center’s Business Division. Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk slammed woke corporate policies as “the Devil Incarnate” on Twitter. Is the world’s richest man, worth $298 billion according to Forbes,

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The Govt’s Tourism ‘Slush Fund’

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Was political corruption involved in the dishing out of millions of dollars by government ministers to tourism businesses? We can’t know, because the Government didn’t keep sufficient records or have proper processes for the handouts. That’s the obvious question arising from a scathing

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Disney’s Gay Agenda Won’t End Well

Disney’s Gay Agenda Won’t End Well

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young

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Labour’s Treatment of Business Is a Joke

Labour’s Treatment of Business Is a Joke

This Labour Government, right from the outset, has shown itself to be pig-ignorant when it comes to private enterprise. Their members are union-friendly (beholden) and business-antagonistic. Nothing illustrates their attitude better than Covid. They effectively left the tourism and hospitality industries to bleed to death. Their complete lack of understanding

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Got the Sack? You’re Not Going Back

Got the Sack? You’re Not Going Back

Information Opinion The announcement from the government that employers do not have to rehire unvaccinated workers came as a shock. Employers should tread very carefully in this area, as it appears, to me at least, to fly in the face of employment law as it is applied today. The new

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Your mask is as useless as Jacinda

Shop at Farmlands? Get This Shirt Now

Farmlands are the latest store to deploy discriminatory and pointless policies against their own customers. They’ve chucked someone out of their store and trespassed them for the high crime of not wearing a mask: A woman has been left shocked and hurt after being kicked out of a Farmlands

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With Labour’s Car Tax the Joke Is on You

With Labour’s Car Tax the Joke Is on You

The Government’s car tax comes into force today, piling on yet another cost for Kiwis facing a cost of living crisis, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Hardworking Kiwis will be hoping that this is just an April Fool’s joke, but sadly they will still have to

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