Labour / NZ First Government

[fungus pudding]

Disagree with you.

But for Roger Douglas, we would still be manufacturing and assembling sub-standard and second rate & shoddy cars, TVs, clothings, furniture etc at outrageous prices, begging banks for mortgages and still using dial up internet.

And unemployment today would be 15% as the rest of the world bypasses NZ.

He brought NZ into the twentieth century. A courageous finance minister to whom we should be grateful.

[Joshuatree]

Could this be one of those Large Offshore Corporate Sinners which Labour was busy bashing around the block not so long ago ? -

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121...digital-future

"Microsoft's "significant investment" shows faith in NZ's digital future"

Fantastic, lets hope its the beginning of a tidealwave of companies that now want to be here

"On Wednesday, the technology giant announced it planned to build a data centre in the North Island, adding to its 59 other data centres around the globe. It would be the first multinational cloud service to open one in New Zealand, with the investment likely worth tens of millions of dollars.Muller said it would accelerate technological solutions that required rapid processing power, such as artificial intelligence systems. "For example, this is ultimately the sort of processing power that will be needed to support a fleet of autonomous vehicles safely."stuff"

[dobby41]

Could this be one of those Large Offshore Corporate Sinners which Labour was busy bashing around the block not so long ago ? -

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121...digital-future

"Microsoft's "significant investment" shows faith in NZ's digital future"

I don't think so.
That would be Google, Facebook and their ilk.

[Joshuatree]

And Our PM instigated changes re these companies monitoring and removing unacceptable posting, streaming etc after ChCH and they responded,thanks to her.

[dobby41]

And Our PM instigated changes re these companies monitoring and removing unacceptable posting, streaming etc after ChCH and they responded,thanks to her.

Now we just need them to pay appropriate taxes for the business they do in NZ.

[Balance]

Putting NZ's covid-19 outbreak data in perspective :

Per 100,000 :

Deaths
Taiwan 0.03
Hong Kong 0.05
Australia 0.39
New Zealand 0.43
Japan 0.45
South Korea 0.50

Infected:
Taiwan 1.8
Hong Kong 13.9
Australia 27.2
New Zealand 30.5
Japan 12.3
South Korea 21.1

And we know that Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia have not had to close down the economies to the extent that NZ has, to achieve BETTER results than NZ.

And it has nothing to do with whether it's National or Labour who is in power - it's about doing better than we have done.

What can we learn from them and do even better than we have.

Lets' raise our sight higher, shall we - rather than be forever comparing ourselves with the worse rather than the best.

[fungus pudding]

Putting NZ's covid-19 outbreak data in perspective :

Deaths
Taiwan 0.03
Hong Kong 0.05
Australia 0.39
New Zealand 0.43
Japan 0.45
South Korea 0.50

Infected:
Taiwan 1.8
Hong Kong 13.9
Australia 27.2
New Zealand 30.5
Japan 12.3
South Korea 21.1

And we know that Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia have not had to close down the economies to the extent that NZ has, to achieve BETTER results than NZ.

And it has nothing to do with whether it's National or Labour who is in power - it's about doing better than we have done.

What can we learn from them and do even better than we have.

Lets' raise our sight higher, shall we - rather than be forever comparing ourselves with the worse rather than the best.

Your figures make no sense. e.g NZ has had 4 deaths - not 0
.43 Australia has had 97 - not 0.39

[Balance]

Your figures make no sense. e.g NZ has had 4 deaths - not 0
.43 Australia has had 97 - not 0.39

Thanks for pointing out - have corrected.

Should be per 100,000 of population.

[iceman]

And Our PM instigated changes re these companies monitoring and removing unacceptable posting, streaming etc after ChCH and they responded,thanks to her.

I assume you have something to back up that statement !! The PM is very good at grabbing international headlines by making statements such as her and the Cabinet taking a huge pay cut. 3 weeks later she has not done anything about it, for which there is no excuse. Just another failed promise.

[nztx]

Anyone see Kelvin Davis with Paul Henry on TV3 tonight fumbling away ?

Apparently he couldn't even put a number on the Kiwi Tourism / Hospitality jobs that he said he was going to save
or when this was going to occur ..

Poor Kelvin never seems to disappoint with the dubious unique ability to freeze, get foot stuck in mouth or come up a major disconnect when challenged by some of the sharper more awake media interviewers applying heat on him ..