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Bryce Wilkinson writes: For more than three decades, the Swiss Institute for Management and Development (IMD) has compiled annual rankings of competitiveness for 63 of the world’s most important countries. It makes for sobering reading for New Zealanders. Back in 2017, New Zealand ranked #16 – ahead of Australia at #21. Five years on, New […]

In the Himalayan tourist sector, Nepal Hiking Team is a well-known brand. More than 30,000 people have had vacations organized via it since the team started it in 2009. Two enthusiastic travel industry experts founded the business to make trekking in ...

Press Release – Universities New Zealand – Te Pokai Tara The nine recipients of a 2022 William Georgetti Scholarship are addressing everything from healthcare delivery inequities experienced by refugees to the best use of agricultural land to keep within the Earth’s environmental limits while contributing to global food security. The William Georgetti Scholarship encourages postgraduate […]

Former Awarua MP Rex Austin has died aged 91. I met Rex a couple of times – he was an MP from 1975 to 1987 and I joined Southern Young Nationals in 1986. He was a devoted representative of Southland and a very hard working MP. Austin was only the second Maori New Zealander to […]

Report from RNZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is calling the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade “incredibly upsetting.” Millions of American women have lost the constitutional right to abortion, after the 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision protecting the right to an abortion was overturned. The Prime Minister said in a statement today […]

It’s not just in NZ we get crazy spending. The Spectator Australia reports: As soon as the New South Wales state government finishes putting the Aboriginal flag atop Sydney Harbour Bridge, they need to have another ‘Sorry Day’. I don’t mean a day to say sorry to Aboriginals. I mean a day to say sorry […]

Radio NZ reported: Data has revealed police caught 5000 drivers breaking their restricted licence by carrying passengers when they shouldn’t last year – and prosecuted just one of them. So that’s a 0.02% prosecution rate! An OIA response shows they issued written warnings to 10. And a 0.2% warning rate Restricted drivers tend to be […]