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OPINION: One of the strongest arguments for Act’s Treaty Principles Bill is probably its opponents’ total inability to raise a calm, cogent retort to it, other than intimidation and shouting the other side into silence.
Your canine crusader notes that Red Radio (RNZ), still smarting about the change of government, recently ran 'an in-depth investigation' about a potential lobbying campaign to persuade the Government to restart live animal exports that has been launched by key players in the agriculture industry.
The gist of the report was that this is an unscrupulous thing to be happening.
The report then went on to quote anti-live export groups SAFE and the SPCA saying how terrible it was that an interest group would look at raising funds to try and garner public support to put pressure on the Government to back its cause.
However, nowhere in said 'investigation' did RNZ ask how much money both SAFE and the SPCA had spent on pressuring the previous government to implement the live export ban, which they both furiously lobbied for.
Silver Fern Farms chief executive Dan Boulton predicts that 2025 will be a better year for farmers.
Farmers have welcomed the Government’s move designed to limit farm to forestry conversions entering the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
Biosecurity New Zealand has placed a second Otago farm on ‘a restricted place’ notice following the discovery of avian influenza in the region earlier this week.
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