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Wednesday, 21 June 2023 15:14

Elon tax?

OPINION: This old mutt suggests farmers and tradies will be delighted to learn that the exorbitant ute tax they are now paying is helping wealthy Aucklanders buy subsidised Teslas.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 14:14

Jobless!

OPINION: The Hound shed a tear (crocodile) on hearing about the looming redundancy of perennial anti-farming critic 'Dr' Mike Joy.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:14

Clear as mud

OPINION: Following Beef + Lamb NZ's rather testy annual meeting - and the ousting of former chair Andrew Morrison - the organisation decided to go on a charm offensive in an effort to get farmers back onside.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 07 June 2023 13:25

Taxpayers stung

In what your old mate reckons is par for the course for the current Government, it has blown more taxpayer money on a wasted cause.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 07 June 2023 12:25

Deafening silence

OPINION: This old mutt reckons the climate alarmists at multi-national, tax-dodging, fundraising outfit Greenpeace should be delighted with news that NZ's sheep and dairy cow numbers are falling.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 13:25

Follow suit!

OPINION: As your old mate - as well as many in the sector - expected, the Budget had nothing in it for the country's all-important primary sector.

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 12:17

Correction!

OPINION: There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the Hound revealed that a certain weakly (sic) farming publication had stuck their noses into the taxpayer trough via the Government's controversial $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF).

Published in The Hound
Tuesday, 30 May 2023 13:55

Too late!

OPINION: The storm in a teacup caused by The Hound revealing another rural publisher took 'public interest journalism' funding reminds Milking It of an exchange supposedly between Winston Churchill and a socialite he met at a function.

Published in Milking It
Tuesday, 30 May 2023 12:55

Faustian pact

OPINION: Dairy News' stablemate Rural News, specifically The Hound, has upset a rural publisher by outing them for putting their snout deep in the trough of Labour's 'public interest journalism fund', something we refused to do.

Published in Milking It
Wednesday, 24 May 2023 16:50

Really?

OPINION: It seems wokeness is now well and truly infecting the brains trust at The New Zealand Merino Company, which now wants farmers to give lambs pain relief during tail docking.

Published in The Hound
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