OPINION: While the Government’s Fast Track bill is copping it from all the usual suspects – opposition parties, greenies, unions and various other ‘interested parties’ who cream it in fees by forcing development through endless ‘consultation’ – your old mate reckons progress on key elements like housing, infrastructure, mining & quarrying, and aquaculture & farming are long overdue and critical in stopping the rot in little old Enzed.
OPINION: It seems Greenpeace is upping its long-running but ineffective public campaign against Fonterra.
OPINION: Economists, in their usual excitable tones, have, for a while now, been openly questioning the Reserve Bank’s glacially slow reaction to the recessionary economic conditions we’re all drowning in.
OPINION: Altogether Unique 2024 was a stimulating two days, rich in business insight and research innovation.
OPINION: New Zealanders have a love affair with property investment. After securing a family home, buying a rental property is traditionally seen as a safe way to build wealth over the long term.
OPINION: Evolution is important. So is feeding people properly.
OPINION: Former politicians seem incapable of staying away from the limelight after they retire.
OPINION: The latest travel receipts for MPs are in (April – June 2024).
OPINION: Beef+Lamb NZ has run a roadshow to sell its new strategy.
OPINION: ACC has released its injury statistics for 2023 work-related claims.
OPINION: Rural New Zealand has been taking some very big hits of late. The latest of these, the closure of Alliance’s Smithfield plant at Timaru, is yet another blow for the heartland – the engine room of the economy.
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