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Christopher Luxon has covid. Why is that even news? https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/03/national-party-leader-christopher-luxon-tests-positive-for-covid-19.html
Full and comprehensive bank enquiry please, no “nothing to see here” short cuts
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/03/nicola-willis-calls-comment-from-minister-dr-duncan-webb-about-national-s-loyalties-reprehensible.html
Well, this looks like the end of the road for Labour’s wafer-thin lead in the polls
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/minister-stuart-nash-asked-police-commissioner-about-appealing-court-decision-act-party-calls-for-resignation/6RJBUQKLZ5A45KQ7AMW77MOW24/
Nzrs are ignorant and vulnerable in business. Mainly we don’t understand that we are working hard to make a life but mostly at the whim of the overseas entities we have sold our sovereign rights to others to suck up our money – short term thinking, though that last world is questionable.
Blackball hotel known as Formerly the Blackball Hilton is an example that comes to mind of the tentacles of overseas business touching the littlest outfit..
Two papers on laws and trade agreements re NZ. –
Preserving our right to regulate
https://www.mfat.govt.nz › Trade › NZ trade policy
As part of free trade agreement negotiations, New Zealand opposes the inclusion of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) – a dispute resolution…
Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade …
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
https://www.dfat.gov.au › in-force › anzcerta › Pages
The CER Agreement is one of the most comprehensive bilateral free trade agreements in existence. It covers substantially all trans-Tasman trade in ,,,
This brewery gets noticed as part of world trade name protection even though a small infraction that would be costly. Don’t try to be funny and cheeky is the lesson.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018881834/wellington-brewery-sent-legal-threat-over-charity-beer-marketing