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They’re coming for the pie shops now… Fellow west aucklanders let’s give this place in Kumeu a miss pic.twitter.com/2Em1EHLJNU — Ella (@ellashepston) October 28, 2021 Hey @ellashepson I think your desire to punish a business for treating everyone equally stinks. What you are doing is 100%

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Govt Adopts ACT’s Freedom Day

Govt Adopts ACT’s Freedom Day

David Seymour ACT Leader ACT’s Freedom Day has effectively been adopted by the Government – if only they’d offered certainty earlier. Jacinda Ardern should now go further and take the whole country to Level Orange of the COVID-19 Protection Framework. This decision should have been made weeks ago. Nothing

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Letter to the Editor: Free the People – For Businesses’ Sake!

Letter to the Editor: Free the People – For Businesses’ Sake!

Dear Editor Remember conferences, seminars, in-person meetings? Remember those person to person (P2P) three-dimensional interactions, where all “six senses” were employed to build and maintain relationships? The rush to online meeting platforms was the rage over the last 18 months. Convenient under the circumstances they were, sustainable they were not.

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Shovel-Ready Project Turned Down by Government

Shovel-Ready Project Turned Down by Government

The Port of Tauranga (POT) is New Zealand’s largest port. POT reported a 6.9% increase in total trade to 6.8 million tonnes in the first quarter of the 2022 financial year. Exports increased 5.3% to 4.3 million tonnes and imports increased 9.8% to 2.

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No Rhythm & Vines, Stay In Your Confines

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government needs to stop holding fun hostage and give us a Freedom Day. This morning Minister Kiri Allan said Rhythm and Vines would not go ahead if the Tairawhiti DHB did not reach 90 per cent vaccination in time, when projections are the DHB won’

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Ratbagism

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Gisborne function centre owner is claiming $5,000 from the Prime Minister and her partner for cancelling holding their wedding there. This followed a disagreement over the catering arrangements. It’s time this buffoon grew up and the media stopped giving him coverage. Every

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How Many Cows Need to Go?

How Many Cows Need to Go?

Mark Cameron ACT Primary Production spokesperson The Government needs to answer how it’s going to meet its pledge to cut biogenic methane emissions. The Government has pledged to cut biogenic methane by 10 per cent on 2017 levels by 2030, and by between 24 to 47 per cent lower

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Business Owners Angry over Robertson’s Comments

Business Owners Angry over Robertson’s Comments

Small business owners in the retail sector deserve answers from the Deputy Prime Minister after he declared that throughout the whole pandemic “less than a handful of cases” were transmitted in retail settings, National’s Small Business spokesperson Todd McClay says. Minister Robertson’s comments were in reference to Auckland

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Restaurant Assn. Survey Shows Terrible Toll of Lockdowns

David Seymour ACT Leader A survey by the Restaurant Association of over a thousand members shows the grim toll the lockdowns are taking on those in the industry. This Government talks about “being kind” and “governing for all New Zealanders” and yet the health and wellbeing of people in hospitality

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Persecuting Our Fellow Human Beings Is Easy

Persecuting Our Fellow Human Beings Is Easy

Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and Computation.

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We’re Fighting for You

We’re Fighting for You

Hon Judith Collins National Party Leader I am back in Auckland and have been out in a few different electorates catching up with small business owners and locals. In typical Kiwi fashion, the people I meet put on a brave face. However, often after a few minutes of talking about

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Police Bullying and Threats against Bluff Publican

Police Bullying and Threats against Bluff Publican

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

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The Economic Storm Is Coming

The Economic Storm Is Coming

As most of you know, I am an accountant, looking after businesses of all shapes and sizes – from building firms to contractors, to hairdressers and beauticians, to commercial electrical companies. Each type of business has its own peculiar conditions, but they all have a number of things in common. When

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Succession: How True to Life Is the TV Series?

Succession: How True to Life Is the TV Series?

Bingbing Ge Lancaster University Bingbing Ge is a Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University Management School and a researcher at the Centre for Family Business. Her research focuses on family business management, entrepreneurship, and strategy. This article contains spoilers for season three of Succession. Succession is back for another series of

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