LEAD STORY
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Stop the Meddling and Start the Doing!
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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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OTHER STORIES
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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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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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