The response will include funding for practical on-ground actions to limit the spread and impacts of HPAI H5N1 for susceptible wildlife. This might include a vaccination program for vulnerable threatened species, as an example.
You will probably not hear this from the teacher unions or the Labour Party.
What was the NZ Navy ship Manawanui actually doing in Samoa?
Clearly, it’s time for reform in this area. But it won’t happen without public pressure on the politicians.
While NZ’s National Government uses the cost-of-living crisis as justification to continue spending more than it takes in tax revenue, Argentina has a much more serious cost-of-living crisis that is fuelling President Milei’s determination to slash state spending to surplus levels within one year.
The Samoa Observer reports Kiwis have not yet done a thing to help them clean up and save their ocean.
BusinessNZ chief executive Katherine Rich has come out saying how pleased businesses are with the list. Likewise, the Employers and Manufacturers Association credits the announcement as a potential major economic boost.
The government is already using existing technologies to surveil its citizens. There’s no reason to think the government would give up its ability to monitor transactions with the introduction of a CBDC.
It will cost NZ over $1 billion that should have gone into healthcare.
The Herald’s “Mood of the Boardroom” report is invaluable reading for those that want to know where the current coalition government is headed.
China is worried not only about a looming recession but that it might be falling into the Japan-style doom-loop of structural stagnation thanks to President Xi’s anti-business jihad.
Changing the deck chairs by flying in a new man whose background includes advice on City Rail Link, PenLink, Wellington Town Hall and Pūhoi-to-Warkworth road to sort out NZ healthcare doesn’t wash.
The NZ Treasury’s lack of imagination threatens our future. It has no faith in economic magic and its message of doom is based on incorrect economics.
