John P
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Kicking against the pricks
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“The Fonterra bureaucracy is notoriously bloated. One hundred and thirty of its managers are paid more than $500,000 a year. Twenty are paid more than $1 million a year.” Worth a read.
thepost.co.nz
OPINION: With its bloated bureaucracy, thin returns and underperforming brands, it’s time for a new restructure.
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Appalling Trumpian behaviour
Government mulls law change after court favours returned service people https://t.co/OwIvWfBgkJ Read it and weep. Gvt. lost in court so now looking at legislating. Unbelievable.
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they're paying charter schools $25,000 per kid. State school funding is $10,000 per kid. they're gonna find one set of results at one charter school and crow about the results - but, yeah, imagine if state schools had 2.5x the funding. https://t.co/JDl6HeNsxe
rnz.co.nz
The number of enrolments had been kept under wraps after the agency told the privately-run, state-funded schools not to reveal their numbers while still setting up.
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With global dairy prices collapsing, how long before this trickles down to our supermarkets?
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The ACT / Atlas bots are busy at the moment. Attacking lefty RNZ, attacking Marxist teachers, blindly supporting and encouraging Seymour. You block 10 and another 20 pop up.
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Truth comes out at #NZ parliamentary committee hearing: that there are 8 charter schools with 427 students: an ideological adventure into education paid for with money which should be supporting public education system. Govt wanted to suppress rolls info https://t.co/MSzDjC8zFg
rnz.co.nz
The number of enrolments had been kept under wraps after the agency told the privately-run, state-funded schools not to reveal their numbers while still setting up.
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Doesn’t even know that most rentals are managed by property managers. And he has a nice matching anecdote from Tim the taxi driver...or was Barry the barista
rnz.co.nz
Housing Minister Chris Bishop said renters should be taking advantage of the market.
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The global market is oversupplied and prices are falling but thirty-two more dairy farms are planned for Canterbury as some grain growers go for milk.
rnz.co.nz
Some arable farmers are converting their farms to dairy.
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Are all local product costs set to fall as global dairy prices hit two-year low after eighth consecutive fall due to glutted market. Yeah right.
rnz.co.nz
The average price at the global auction fell 4.3 percent following 3 percent drop two weeks ago.
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Treasury just over halfway through review of state asset ownership but insists the exercise is not driven by a desire for asset sales.
rnz.co.nz
But it insists the exercise is not driven by a desire for asset sales.
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Is he a 'prominant NZer? ACT chief of staff resigns
rnz.co.nz
Andrew Ketels said he felt "very fortunate" to have worked at Parliament for 12 years.
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Hoggard went on to say that the costs associated with moving away from farrowing crates would be difficult for pig farmers and business would be less profitable. Putting farmer profits ahead of animal welfare.
rnz.co.nz
The first week of Parliament's final sitting block of 2025 is focused on scrutiny on past Government spending. Early conflict focused on animal welfare.
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Willis delays carbon credit decision by kicking the can down the road for the next govt to sort out.
rnz.co.nz
Willis says the government won't be sending "cheques for billions of dollars" offshore, but an expert says this could have real-world trade and legal risks.
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This needs a class action against manufacturers importers and retailers. Kindergartens and schools facing massive sand asbestos cleanup costs as govt agencies say 'not me'.
rnz.co.nz
It could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to decontaminate one operator's sites.
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Cabinet agreed in principal to allow the sale of smokeless products (such as Swedish snus and nicotine pouches) - subject to products meeting "safety requirements" and regulatory controls to stop youth access. 'Smoke free' needs to include 'nicotine free'.
rnz.co.nz
Costello assured MPs she remained focused on achieving the Smokefree 2025 goals.
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In June this year the Govt slipped through legislation that allows for the demolition of heritage buildings if they are deemed to be 'abandoned'.
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Kelptocracy - meaning to "rule by thieves" - is a form of political corruption where leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing from the people they rule. Guyon Espiner: How New Zealand can combat the rise of kleptocracy
rnz.co.nz
Today's dictators aren't just seizing power, they're stealing unimaginable wealth and hiding it in Western banks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum tells Guyon Espiner.
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More details about the new generation of Interislander ferries have come to light in briefings to MPs - including that the final cost is not yet known. New ferries to be diesel hybrids, more manoeuvrable - ferry company tells MPs
rnz.co.nz
The replacement Interislanders will be diesel hybrids, more manoeuvrable, and save on certain operator costs, Ferry Holdings has told select committee.
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Only two sectors have not experienced a reduction in their wages in real terms over the past year, data shows.
rnz.co.nz
Local government administration roles, and healthcare and social services were up slightly, but everyone else ended the year worse off on average.
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