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Isn't that bog standard across the developed world?
Define 'developed world'.
Most enterprises in New Zealand are small and medium-sized enterprises. As at February 2005:
* 96.3% of enterprises employ 19 or fewer people
* 86.5% of enterprises employ 5 or fewer people
* 63.2% of enterprises have no employeesAnyway, it may be true, but for the 86% of New Zealand companies in the small business category, in order to get a 15% Tax credit, you first have to have an R & D budget, or even make a profit. From memory it's not a case of getting a 15% Tax Credit and spending it on unspecified R & D, it's getting a credit if you can prove your existing R & D projects qualify.
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And Theresa Healey was a bonus.
Bloody Shortland Street. Ruined my favourite actress for me. Well, sort of. Still watched it. When I arrived in Wellington in 1989 was briefly in a flat with TH and another soon to be famous actress who also ended up on the Street*.
That's my name dropping done for the next decade. Oh wait, Taika's uncle was... Shuddup already!!!
*Note the Capital. It's important.
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You could kill both those birds with one stone through a R&D tax credit. Both govt and the private sector would be contributing.
Looked into it. Not worth the paper it was written on. If anyone successfully benefited from the scheme, or even signed up, I'd like to hear about it, as it seemed like a cost, not a benefit. Unless of course you're Fonterra.
Anyway, it was repealed. You can read all about it if you are really interested here and here.
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And most of the increase should come from the private sector by world standards. How do we make that happen?
But this is part of the problem, not the solution. Independent research requires funding without the vested interest and conflict of interest that now controls the budgets of most university based R & D. I've seen first hand where the response to a suggestion for new research was rejected because it could compromise an existing Patent application, and cost a University research money. Is this research for the sake of research, or universities being exploited by unscrupulous Global Corporates because they get inadequate funding from the public purse?
As Gluckman mentioned, or was it Russell, anyway, in Singapore for example the A*STAR makes it's investment money available for innovative research in health and High Tech fields. Sure they may benefit from some great discovery at some stage, but some of the motivation and requests for tenders are as broad as 'Cancer'.
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore (A*STAR) and the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) seek to allocate funds to enable research teams from Singapore and New Zealand to conduct collaborative research into cancer.
A total funding pool of up to approximately NZD$1.8M (exclusive of GST) is available through the HRC’s International Investment Opportunities Fund (Objective 2) and A*STAR for this joint initiative.
From Gets.
There is some un-sullied money out there, but it is the exception, not the rule, IMhO. The private sector hasn't done a great job of allocating money to areas of greatest public need, but certainly of greatest profit potential. Is that science, or marketing?
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I was a kid growing up in Opotiki around that time, and it felt distinctly like a documentary to me. Agree with Damian about it being pitch perfect.
Ha! Another one. We're everywhere, so look out...
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More on nostalgia and short films. Haven't seen this for ages. Part two on YouTube also. That sound track ain't bad, speaking of chickens.
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Days of body-surfing, fishing, exploring. Nights of campfires, stories and dares. It felt almost dreamlike, like stepping into a different time.
Yes, all that too. Sitting in a tractor tyre while others dive down for kina and crays. It's still there, and much unchanged. Last time I was down there (last year) boys about Boy's age were diving down off the rocks and filling sacks of kaimoana. Material wealth and more of more drives much of what happens in the big ciy, but I wonder if we're missing the point.
Nostalgia. Humour me.
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This is where I spent most of my childhood holidays, and lived just along the road from. The people, the places, the smells, the garages, crayfish, humility, bravery, despair and bare faced humanity all resonated so strongly I was laughing and crying from the first scene to the last. It left me feeling like I used to after a hangi at Aunties on boxing day. Privileged to be part of a world without judgement, requiring no entry fee, and full of love and forgiveness.
Sorry for the overblown hyperbole, but feels like I've been waiting for this movie since I was 8.
Aroha nui Taika.
Crazy Horses forever, you eggs!
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CRI review and the speedy adoption of its conclusions is something for which the current government deserves praise.
Cough.
Gluckman does seem to know what he's on about. As said earlier, would be nice if people were listening.
Hopefully people won't start thinking the ash cloud is going to solve all our global warming problems. On another note (thread merge) while Climate Change probably didn't cause 'that volcano' to erupt, there are some who think it will lead to others erupting in the future.
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Water, water, water is the major mayoral issue.
The Albatross is coming. Or has it been? Nor any a drop, to think!
And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo!In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white moonshine."`God save thee, ancient Mariner,
From the fiends that plague thee thus! -
Why look'st thou so?' -"With my crossbow
I shot the Albatross."Don't shoot the messenger.