The current government needs to instigate far stricter controls on foreigners buying up New Zealand’s countryside says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations as well as keeping the New Zealand public informed of the extent of outsiders buying up country-side.
“Frustratingly figures are few and far between to make an accurate assessment but the public should be given regular and accurate statistics on an issue which most New Zealanders feel strongly about,” said CORANZ chairman Andi Cockroft.
Most Kiwis Opposed
Past opinion polls indicated as many as 90 percent of New Zealanders were opposed or concerned he said.
In late 2019 it was revealed by Radio NZ that the four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies.
Friday, 19 February 2021, 12:04 pm
The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA),
a national trout and rivers advocacy body, states that trout
farming would be of no nett economic benefit to New Zealand
and could be disastrous to the country’s tourism-related
wild trout sports fishing ‘industry’ that is
conservatively estimated to be worth over $1.5 million
annually and which employs thousands of people in rural
areas.
NZFFA was responding to a report
(
BusinessDesk Feb 16,) that government was not
opposed to commercial trout farming but did not see it as an
immediately need. The association’s president Dr Peter
Trolove, a veterinarian with first-hand experience of fish
Chairman Council of Outdoor
Recreation Associations of NZ
An Otago Daily Times
report (23 January) that nearly two-thirds of Dunedin
residents think public consultation is lacking at the
Dunedin City Council, according to the latest Dunedin
Residents Opinion Survey is yet another example of the
erosion of the public’s voice
Underlining the
diminishing of democracy. was Dunedin mayor Aaron Hawkins’
reaction to seems to ignore public concern and seek solace
in other convenient angles of his choosing.
The
Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations has been aware of
the quelling of public opinion in the bowels of both local
government and central government
The media was again incredibly frustrating at the 4pm covid update yesterday, and in this mornings Herald.
Having Audrey Young doing a grumpy old woman routine asking the same gotcha question a million times ( why are we not told these business now? , and the switcheroo why were this businesses blindsided by releasing their information before informing them? ) was bad enough but her personal annoyance has become the subject of her piece this morning in the paper, where for some vague reason the PM needs to be involved to rev up the MOH over some quibble that Audrey doesn t like.
What is frustrating is ONE WHOLE YEAR after the COVID pandemic began the main media companies are STILL treating the pandemic as primarily a POLITICAL story, using courtier journalists who were excoriated by the public for their addiction to the gotcha dialogue of banter politics and viewing everything through the lens of horse race political analysis. Why was Audrey Young there? Why has the NZ Herald stil