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Yes! It’s time to break down all the ways New Zealand incentivises big US film companies like Time Warner and Amazon and Disney to make their movies in a little archipelago at the bottom of the world. Let’s start with the simplest strategy of all: bribery. Now of course we don’t actually bribe anyone to do anything. It’s just giving people a grant to incentivise them to do something. So! How long have we been not bribing the film industry to work here? It all started when Peter Jackson made some movies about wizards and stuff and everyone lost their mind. The centre-left Helen Clark-led Labour Government decided to offer something called the ‘Large Budget Screen Production Grant’ for future productions. Basically, if you met certain criteria, and you made your film in New Zealand, we’d give you 12.5 per cent of any money you spent here. If you spent $100 million making a movie in New Zealand, the New Zealand government would give you $12.5 million in a big ....
There are certainly similarities between the Collins and Brash speeches. Both hinged their anti-separatist argument on New Zealandâs first Governor, William Hobsonâs statement after Te Tiriti (The Treaty) o Waitangi was signed in 1840, when he proclaimed âHe iwi tahi tÄtouâ or âWe are now one peopleâ. Both Brash and Collins implied this statement had the same weight as Te Tiriti. In reality it was merely Hobsonâs personal observation, not part of the formal agreement the Chiefs signed. But itâs also the oppositionâs job to challenge the government and Collinsâ point about Labour not being entirely upfront about its intentions was a reasonable one to make. The government has been somewhat oblique on this question. For example, when announcing the establishment of the MÄori Health Agency a few weeks ago, the minister of health, Andrew Little, said: âBy making these changes, we can start giving true effect to tino ....