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    Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
    6 national MP's(natch) rorting the system
    2013 article?

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    Dr Tim Mackle (DairyNZ) had a light treatment from Jack Tame on TV this morning. He certainly has a smiling, agreeable face. But DairyNZ is under the control of Fonterra, and I think that's where Tim Mackle came from.

    I'm hoping this new govt will help bring the nation's dairy farmers around to looking much harder at water quality in our waterways. These are the people who own vast tracts of the countryside (them and the banks), running an inefficient process that turns the sun's energy into milkfat and water, that is then trucked laboriously to factories for energy-intensive processing. It's a huge industry, rivalling tourism, but has byproducts that damage waterways. The landowners are good at paying low taxes and relatively low wages, so I always wonder if that commercial effort could go somewhere else that would benefit wider NZ more.

    Rachel Stewart (not a popular person with dairy farmers) is watching the latest PR efforts by Fonterra.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...+November+2017

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    Quote Originally Posted by elZorro View Post
    Dr Tim Mackle (DairyNZ) had a light treatment from Jack Tame on TV this morning. He certainly has a smiling, agreeable face. But DairyNZ is under the control of Fonterra, and I think that's where Tim Mackle came from.

    I'm hoping this new govt will help bring the nation's dairy farmers around to looking much harder at water quality in our waterways. These are the people who own vast tracts of the countryside (them and the banks), running an inefficient process that turns the sun's energy into milkfat and water, that is then trucked laboriously to factories for energy-intensive processing. It's a huge industry, rivalling tourism, but has byproducts that damage waterways. The landowners are good at paying low taxes and relatively low wages, so I always wonder if that commercial effort could go somewhere else that would benefit wider NZ more.

    Rachel Stewart (not a popular person with dairy farmers) is watching the latest PR efforts by Fonterra.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...+November+2017
    Wrong target Elzoro. Dairy farmers already have 96% or 24,000 km's of waterways fenced off. You need to be aiming at beef and pig farms followed by sheep and deer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by minimoke View Post
    Wrong target Elzoro. Dairy farmers already have 96% or 24,000 km's of waterways fenced off. You need to be aiming at beef and pig farms followed by sheep and deer.
    A fence doesn't stop run off from mob stocked cows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by minimoke View Post
    Wrong target Elzoro. Dairy farmers already have 96% or 24,000 km's of waterways fenced off. You need to be aiming at beef and pig farms followed by sheep and deer.
    You didn't read the article, Minimoke.

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    Please Labour, Can I have GST off razor blades

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    Quote Originally Posted by minimoke View Post
    Please Labour, Can I have GST off razor blades
    No you can't. Use tampons.

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    Just so that FP doesn't go in a bin heres the link to his weirdo post
    Tampon tax break on the table

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
    Just so that FP doesn't go in a bin heres the link to his weirdo post
    Tampon tax break on the table
    It wasnt weird - i understood it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by minimoke View Post
    It wasnt weird - i understood it.
    The weird thing is Jacinda's gummint are going to consider it.

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