For most of us, the pandemic has been an utter disaster. But for some, it’s been two years of non-stop win. Oddly enough, the big winners from the pandemic — or more correctly, the response to it — are those with exactly the means and motivation to keep it going
Not only have our small businesses in Auckland had to suffer through a completely useless 3-month lockdown but, all over New Zealand, all businesses are also now having to negotiate their way through an even more futile and impossible system of traffic lights. And all for a vaccine that
Over the years, I have done a large number of applications to IRD on behalf of clients for payment arrangements for unpaid tax. IRD would inevitably ask for copies of bank statements (3 months, or even 6 months), even though we had filled in an application form, giving details of
Joint TPK, MBIE letter to CEs re Maori Progressive Procurement Policy (1) (1)Download Let’s highlight the racism and discrimination inside New Zealand together because it is NOT OK! There is NOTHING positive about discrimination. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the
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Yesterday we published a letter to the editor from a Bluff publican about an incident with Police regarding our now infamous “Gulag” image. We have now obtained further background information, video from the tavern and a recording of an interaction with Police at Bluff Police station. What is revealed is
Not content with hounding a doctor out of her business for the crime of providing medical exemptions to people desperate to avoid losing their jobs because of government and business mandates, NZ media are now trying to destroy her new business as well. This Media cancelling and hounding of her
David Seymour ACT Leader A media release from Economic Development Minister Stuart Nash talking up New Zealand ice cream exports is ridiculous when New Zealanders are frozen out of going overseas to promote their products. Nash thought he was giving journalists a scoop but he doesn’t understand the realities
Gary Moller garymoller.com Several weeks ago, Alofa and I attended a private meeting of small and medium business owners to discuss surviving the new Traffic Light system. We expected a dozen attendees. But, instead, the hall was standing room only with at least 200 hundred in attendance. There were
Elizabeth C. Tippett University of Oregon Charlotte Alexander Georgia State University Professor Tippett writes about ethics, employment law, and the intersection of law and technology. Charlotte S. Alexander holds the Connie D. and Ken McDaniel WomenLead Chair as an Associate Professor of Law and Analytics at the Colleges of Business
Sarah Schiffling Liverpool John Moores University Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos Technological University Dublin Sarah Schiffling is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and an International Research Fellow with the HUMLOG Institute in Helsinki, Finland. Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos is a Lecturer in Logistics, and Program
Matt Judd You may wonder like me, how a country with as many resources, with enormous wealth, and with supposedly, the World’s best hospitals and most highly trained Doctors and medical staff could fare so badly in the fight against Covid-19 as did the United States. https://www.
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Alisa Freedman University of Oregon Alisa Freedman is a Professor of Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender at the University of Oregon and Editor-in-Chief of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal. See a container of Cup Noodles at a convenience store and you might think of dorm
Family First The Don’t Divide Us.nz campaign, which presented a petition to Parliament last month with 87,269 signatures, is calling on the Government to ditch the divisive ‘no jab no job’ policy and allow for the use of COVID rapid antigen testing as an alternative for unvaccinated
It started with bus drivers. We couldn’t get bus drivers for love or money. Most people saw bus driving as an undesirable job; poor pay, split shifts and unsociable hours. People don’t want to be bus drivers, but they do want buses. Therein lies the problem. Then along
