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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/511100/godfrey-hirst-eating-into-bremworth-s-market-shares-ceo-says
Wool carpet maker Bremworth says flooring giant Godfrey Hirst has eaten into its market share as it struggles to meet demand after damage to its Napier yarn plant from Cyclone Gabrielle.
The cyclone disruption resulted in a doubling of the company’s half-year loss to $1.7 million, while revenue fell 17 percent to $39m…
He said Godfrey Hirst – owned by the world’s largest flooring company Mohawk Industries – has capitalised on the situation…
Our basic industries are being undermined, and bought out under our feet. Yet we have money to pour into military etc going to other countries. What are the foreign policies of other tiny nations – Singapore, Andorra, San Marino etc?
Sing – We are struggling –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umIfFYm5qZs
‘Can you hear me, through the dark night far away
I am dying,. for ever crying…’
Farmers for NZ/AO could learn much and gain confidence – try to register and get to the Mulloon Institute Re-hydration Conference.
It’s in Queanbeyan NSW Australia on 1-2 May 2024.
https://themullooninstitute.org/mri-conference2024
Easy to watch and pick-up points: new animation series, and poster.
https://themullooninstitute.org/education-community/#animations
Advocacy – the Greens could get involved in NZ/AO on these lines and show themselves to be a committed, practical force for good with advocacy for their other interests, continuing but secondary.
https://themullooninstitute.org/advocacy
The use of highly emotional language by academics when they are discussing emotional and sensitive subjects is unhelpful and doesn’t encourage the use of academics as trustworthy thoughtful people supporting a balanced society. So Professor Joanna Kidman using the word ‘hate’ when referring to government policies encourages a concentration on the word rather than the matter under discussion.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/professor-joanna-kidman-says-coalition-government-might-be-a-death-cult-david-seymour-calls-for-resignation-of-anti-extremism-centre-director/G4D4O5EJPNCKJDMDGOCHHSHU6M/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The head of a publicly funded anti-extremism centre says the Government might be a “death cult” that “hates children”, leading to calls from the Act Party for her resignation.
Professor Joanna Kidman, a director of the Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, lashed out at the Government…
Kidman wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that she could “only assume that this Government hates children, most of whom will be poor and brown”…
Kidman also added that the Government “wants to snatch children’s lunches” in response to Associate Education Minister and Act leader David Seymour describing free school lunches as “wasteful” public spending and arguing that the Government should cut them.
“Is this a government or a death cult?” Kidman wrote.
The anger was prompted by a continuing introduction of funding-cutting education and welfare program changes proposed for youngsters by the government – the latest, a military-style camp for young offenders. Experience from overseas and earlier in this country once reviewed, to assess the usefulness and effectiveness of these, are likely to show they do not show improvement, advantage, or pay in any way.
Populist, immoderate comment as used by Professor Kidman may please her circle of supporters, but those looking for balanced, reasoned assessment and refutation of likely poor performing and even counter-productive youth training ideas , will not register such vituperative comment as of value in consideration.