Displaying items by tag: the hound

OPINION: An email from Fed Farmers' president Andrew Hoggard to Ag Minister Damien O'Connor saying some unkind things about the Groundswell movement - before its big countrywide protest in July - was recently released to a media outfit under an Official Information Act (OIA) request.

OPINION: A mate of the Hound's wants to know what's happened to meat company Silver Fern Farms and its latter day conversion to wokeism.

A mate of the Hound's thinks it was more than a bit dodgy when DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel recently announced the director elections for the industry good body.

OPINION: Well-known professional protestor, John Minto has run off at the mouth without checking his facts.

Your canine crusader reckons this story could come straight out of the 'Only in America' file.

OPINION: There was a lot of gnashing of teeth, wailing and tears (including our PM) when celebrity teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has a crack at NZ's efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

OPINION: The Hound wonders when the powers-that-be will take a serious look at how their infatuation with pleasing the UN and implementing crazy policies to mitigate (not reduce) the country's carbon footprint is doing severe damage to our economy.

OPINION: Your old mate is always sceptical about claims made by government, especially when it comes to spending our money and the value of said spending.

OPINION: Your canine crusader is shedding a tear (only crocodile) for US-owned carpet manufacturer Godfrey Hirst, which is threatening legal action under the Fair Trading Act, against its NZ rival Cavalier for "demonising" synthetic carpets.

OPINION: A mate of the Hound's was unimpressed when he recently received his voting papers for the annual meeting of rural insurer FMG.