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OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters got more than he bargained for at a recent Waikato Federated Farmers annual meeting.
An eclectic consortium of political, industry and business interests are seeking to overturn Silver Fern Farms' (SFF) partnership with Chinese investor Shanghai Maling.
Silver Fern Farm's 6000 farmer shareholders could be in the gun for millions of dollars in penalty payments and costs if the company's proposed merger is not settled by June 30.
Only eight months ago, Federated Farmers and NZ's special agriculture trade envoy, Mike Petersen, said the TPPA was going to be gold standard or bust, NZ First leader Winston Peters says.
Winston Peters' office loves to bag the dairy industry and Fonterra, mostly for all the wrong reasons.

OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
OPINION: A press release from the oxygen thieves running the hot air symposium on climate change, known as COP30, grabbed your…