David Seymour ACT Leader It’s time to start planning for life beyond lockdowns. We can’t keep living with the uncertainty that we could be locked down again at any moment. It’s time to look to the future with a renewed sense of confidence. Delta has changed the
New Conservative Ted Johnston New Conservative Spokesman New Conservative states the Labour government’s Covid 19 response strategy of ongoing lockdowns must stop. New Zealanders are tired of these continued restrictions on movement and freedom. Businesses are suffering with people digging into their retirement and other savings just to stay
New information has revealed Amazon wanted to keep filming the Lord of the Rings television series in New Zealand, but the Government’s unwillingness to hear them out forced the series offshore, costing the economy billions, National’s Economic Development spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Despite Amazon petitioning hard to keep
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, governments all around the world borrowed – or printed – money to stimulate the economy. It was enormously successful because the plan almost everywhere was to get people out of the dole queues and back into work by building infrastructure. That was how so many
The immense pressure the government’s lockdown and lockdown rules have put on the hospitality industry is (as I predicted) forcing business owners to make controversial decisions in order to try to save their businesses. This owner is trying to keep everyone happy and his staff employed but we all
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righttolife.org.uk The CEO of Match.com and the company behind dating app Bumble have set up abortion ‘relief funds’ to help women to have abortions in response to Texas’ new abortion law. Bumble, a dating app based in Austin, Texas, which also owns dating service Badoo, has spoken
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Tesla’s business model is unique in many respects. From its reliance on green energy credits to its frantic pursuit of self-driving
Thousands of New Zealanders have lost their jobs with the closure of many hospitality businesses, and many more will join them if the Government doesn’t provided targeted support, National’s Economic Development and Small Business spokesperson Todd McClay says. According to the restaurant sector 1000 hospitality businesses have been
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Only Jesus Saves This week we received a huge packet of documents with fines and legal threats from the nation state of Germany. Gab is refusing, and has refused for many years, to comply with the German Network Enforcement Act. Gab is a US company
Amazon Web Services’ investment of $7.5 billion to develop a world-class Cloud Computing Data Centre in New Zealand is a huge vote of confidence in our digital future, says National spokesperson for Digital Economy and Communications Melissa Lee. “As more business is done online and our tech sector booms,
Judith Collins says employers shouldn’t make vaccination against COVID-19 compulsory […] Collins appeared on The AM Show on Wednesday, and was asked if employers should have the right to not hire – or even fire – employees who refuse to be vaccinated. “I think that’s a bit too tough actually,” she
There’s an old anecdote about a visitor to Maoist China noting all the workers toiling with buckets and spades to dig a massive dam. Why not get a couple of bulldozers? he asks. Because, the cadre replies, then we wouldn’t have full employment. It’s easy to laugh
Mark Cameron ACT Rural Affairs spokesperson and Ruawai Dairy Farmer A positive proposal from the ACT Party to ensure environmental regulations are managed by regional councils and taken out of the hands of Wellington bureaucrats will today be voted down by the Government. As the only person in Parliament who
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 22th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. What becomes of the “non-essential”? A government whose chief virtue is PR can normally be relied on to have “good optics”
This Government is step by step leading desperate business owners down a pre-determined path that will end with our society being divided into the vaxxed and the un-vaxxed. The un-vaxxed will be treated as second class citizens, stripped of many of their basic human rights. Unvaccinated customers could be barred
