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10 February 2021
Today the Government has announced a major overhaul of the Resource Management Act. We must add growing healthy food to feed New Zealand and earn valuable overseas dollars to the list of priorities.
5 February 2021
With the Commerce Commission investigating supermarket pricing, the real issue is transparency. If prices rise, don't we need to know what we're paying for? And who's benefiting, the environment or...
4 February 2021
The Government has asked the Commerce Commission to undertake a study of the prices that supermarkets charge us. In this digital age, what is required are information and transparency.
1 February 2021
This year will be a race between Government, Covid and the next generation of 15-30-year-olds. The race will see who can impose the most change on our country.
29 January 2021
This year it will be a race between the Government, Covid and the next generation of 15- to 30-year-olds. The race will be to see who can impose the most change on our country.
22 January 2021
It seems there is a checkmate between two opposite and competing forces: keeping NZ safe and Covid free vs. keeping the economy performing well and the country financially viable.
20 January 2021
It is like being in checkmate in chess. There are no moves. The paralysis is being caused by two opposite and competing forces: keeping NZ safe and Covid free vs. keeping the economy performing well.
13 January 2021
We are going to have to change what we are doing to survive Covid and thrive in our new world. The challenge for 2021 is: how do we do this as a country?
As we deal with new and more contagious Covid variants, it is important to reflect on the lessons learnt from Covid in 2020 and develop adaptations for the coming year.
11 January 2021
As 2020 drew to an end and we mistakenly thought that we were coming out of the Covid chaos, Covid and mother nature doubled down on us.
