Domestic Focus
OPINION: After hogging the media limelight for telling a NZ Chinese MP to "go back home", Winston Peters has decided to focus on a domestic issue - oil and gas drilling.
You can set your watch to it; when dairy farmers finally get a good farmgate price, some wonk will attack them for 'profiteering' on the domestic market because the price of their cheddar wedges goes up, Auckland uni professor Rob MacCulloch is just the latest to roll out the old socialist chestnut that farmers should sell locally at a lower price than they can get overseas.
No mention of the fact NZ dairy farms are privately owned businesses, built by hard-working risk takers; they're not communist state assets.
And when dairy farmers make a loss, the MacCullochs of the world are strangely silent.
