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OTHER STORIES
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Too Good to Fail
The Ministry for Primary Industries Pastoral Farm Monitoring Report makes sobering reading. Rural debt has increased from $46 billion to $50 billion and dairy farm debt forms $33 billion of that.
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Owen McShane Dies Suddenly
Owen McShane died suddenly yesterday morning. Owen had suffered from heart problems and had undergone a major heart operation some time ago and was in poor health but died suddenly. Owen was a great intellect and if his ideas had been accepted by mainstream New Zealand we all would have been better off both environmentally and economically. He will be missed
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Stop the Meddling and Start the Doing!
It seems no one in government is prepared to make hard decisions and lead. We have become a nation of planners and report writers rather than doers. Local government are required to prepare annual plans and go through a consultation process that is so resource hungry and time consuming that by the time it is completed its time to start the next one.
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Kaipara District Plan a mess
Farmers of New Zealand along with our membership represent approximately 6,000 individuals opposed to a plan produced by Mayor Neil Tiller and his Council. We have called for a Commissioner to be appointed. The Kaipara District Council should be sacked for incompetence
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Brakes on Economy - Government
The only real enemy of inflation is productivity and this is one of the few tools in the cupboard that we seem reluctant to use. In fact we actively ensure the most productive are penalised. Our politicians, at both local and central level, are at pains to make a mess of things. They continue to act in ways that reduce or curb the individual’s ability to be bold. Apart from our elite athletes’, who we expect to win at the highest level, barriers are placed in front of our elite entrepreneurs and innovators.
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Mark Lynas is a British author, journalist and environmental activist who was partly responsible for the worldwide condemnation of the use of genetically modified products in the mid-nineties has done a remarkable about face stating he got it totally wrong. Listen to his speech!
