Thursday, 11-March-2010 NZ FARMERS ONLINE     -     NZ FARMING LIFESTYLES      

 

LEAD STORY
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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OTHER STORIES
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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Can we Afford to Close Down our Agricultural Enterprises?

We have a strange situation where councils set their cannons against rural residential subdivisions on the grounds that they remove farmland from productive use, but then support those same rural residential landowners when they move to close down some of the most productive agricultural activities in the country.
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The P.M. has a Chief Science Advisor – but what should he do?

Professor Peter Gluckman has been appointed as the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor
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“What Northland Needs” – The Musings of the Regional Chair

Few would disagree that Northland’s economic future, for the foreseeable future, rests on its natural attributes, with agriculture, tourism and forestry dominating.
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The Political Outcomes of Large Amalgamations

In Auckland the proposed Auckland Super-City was first driven by the political left, but has now been adopted by the centre right. It was not an issue driven by the people of Auckland.
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