David Clark Valetta Farm, Ashburton. David and Jayne Clark farm an irrigated mixed arable farm at Valetta in Mid Canterbury, running breeding ewes, finishing winter lambs and growing a wide range of grain, forage and vegetable seed crops. It is a proudly inter-generational farm business with David’s parents living
National has struck a chord with its tax policy. Jacinda describes it as “desperate and reckless”. Lefties on Twitter are catatonic. They are claiming that National is promising people “free money”. Since when has being able to keep a bit more of your own earnings free money? Isn’t it
Election 2020: National to repeal RMA, reverse oil and gas ban, back 'responsible' mining as part of 'pragmatic' energy policy https://t.co/WA2W9KSDYd — Stuff.co.nz Politics (@NZStuffPolitics) September 18, 2020 If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it.
Unemployment figures are skyrocketing. “More than 60 per cent more people are now receiving Jobseeker Support work-ready benefits than the same time a year ago – and the number of people aged under 24 on the benefit has leapt 80 per cent.” Christie wrote this week about unemployment being the worst
Mark Williams I got my title from a 90’s dance music album by a group called Altern-8. Famous for their mask-wearing and hazmat suits at raves I was reminded of them by the mask hysteria we are now currently experiencing. How did we go from no facemasks to suddenly
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Dear Judith, I know you’re out there on the campaign trail and all that, and you’re probably hugely busy, listening to your PR advisers and doing your own brand of kissing babies, shaking hands and so on, but some of us are getting a bit worried, quite frankly.
I keep returning to the SARS-CoV-2 situation as one which is in equal parts astonishing and appalling, and also because we seem to have sleep-walked into the biggest singular threat to democracy so far this century without anyone realising it. We are in the grip of a mass neurosis: seeded
The Prime Minister locked down Auckland for a second time and refuses to reduce Auckland’s default setting of Level 2.5. Apparently we have a tricky virus that could flare up again. She also told all Aucklanders that if we moved about the country then we should behave as
So much for the Prime Minister’s kindness message. Aucklanders are now being treated like proverbial lepers by others in the rest of the country. A Dunedin pizza restaurant has placed a temporary ban on all customers from Auckland over Covid fears. A couple on a South Island road trip
Eliora New Zealand is experiencing a change in the type of crime being committed. According to the NZ Police, the number of home burglaries is down but shoplifting is up. On top of an economic hit, Kiwi businesses face an increased level of theft. Businesses in New Zealand have been
We cannot tax our way into prosperity. With the economic indicators of the last few days showing that we are in a deep recession and that unemployment is going to rise and remain with us for seven years, we need a government with a plan to grow the economy. Labour’
Hey Labour Party, it’s probably not a good idea to put a candidate in a white top with blonde hair onto a white billboard, or did you only want Jacinda Ardern to be visible? I would call today’s face of the day a “Ghost candidate”….spooky. Vote for
For the next few days, I will remind the Prime Minister that we have long memories. It is only when you explore her hyperbole that you realise how much of her rhetoric was outright posturing rather than delivery. I will expose three examples a day. There is a huge volume
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