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https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-house/audio/2018864528/not-just-for-old-stuffy-white-males-trevor-mallard-on-parliament
Old politicians never die they just…. away.
Choose from – waste. shrivel, puff out, demagnetise, deflate, engorge, debark, develop urban myth, reminisce. or sink into purple prose and bliss.
They are just so sickening – have we no defence against this stuff?
Maori holding onto people-based historic culture being encouraged to embrace robotics? This is madness.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mapuna/audio/2018864658/steve-saunders-culture-eats-strategy-any-day-of-the-week
Why are American food producers choosing to work with a robotics company based in Tauranga?
Partly because of a strong company culture founded in Māori values like manakitanga [hospitality] and kaitiakitanga [guardianship of the environment], says Steve Saunders (Ngāi Te Ahi and Ngāti Ranginui).
The co-founder and CEO of Robotics Plus was named ‘Outstanding Business Leader’ at this week’s Māori Business Leaders Awards.
This thinking is an echo of that encouraging wealthy people to buy into NZ and get its benefits for money.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477687/new-millionaire-migrants-visa-category-attracts-only-one-wealthy-foreigner
Only one wealthy foreigner has applied for residency since the government overhauled the rules for investor visas nearly six weeks ago.
The Active Investor Plus visa replaced two investor visa categories on 19 September.
Immigration’s general manager of border and visa operations Nicola Hogg said the one application received under the new category was being processed…
Govt considered $25m minimum
A Cabinet paper from August showed the government originally planned to set the minimum investment for the Active Investor Plus visa at $25m, which it recognised was “a high threshold by international standards and that investing in active asset classes in an unfamiliar market is risky”.
“We anticipate that uptake of the new Active Investor Plus visa may be lower than the levels of interest that we have been experiencing in the Investor 1 and Investor 2 visa categories as investment in bonds is now only allowed for one year as a part of a transition,” the paper said.
“Uptake is likely to drop initially as a natural reaction to changing visa requirements and the increase in the minimum investment threshold is also likely to reduce the number of applicants.”
Laurent said bringing the investment level down to $15m was the right call, and dropping it further would likely not make a difference to application numbers.
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