Don Everitt

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@AndrewNZ20 A ute. She drove a ute.

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She drives (sorry, drove) a ute?

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@PeterTerry3 Apart from the glaciation of the Pleistocene period? Like don't you read the news. Dah! Everyone knows that's caused by cows burping and cars belching.

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Something to read on the plane.
Astronomical forcing shaped the timing of early Pleistocene glacial cycles.
Gosh!
https://t.co/db10z5UV9O

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@kominsens Because there is no CGT for your home beyond the Bright Line. The current fuss about potentially taxing unrealized capital gains should include a suggestion that unrealized capital losses could result in credits. What goes up can come down.

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@davemjohnson @DanMickleson @coughlthom "The paperwork sucks" is taken as agreement. The point of a CGT is to move investment towards highly productive use of capital and, hopefully, away from housing. Minister Parker just brought a red herring to dinner.

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@DanMickleson @coughlthom Thats easy. Capital gains tax regimes allow credits in a year where capital values decrease. They allow offsets between asset classes that might make gains and those that might make losses. Nightmare to administer.

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@PeterTerry3 @anliathluachra Bring that person a wheelbarrow.

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@PeterTerry3 @sommecourt @drtorhumphreys And we hope you make it to the UK. How can we help?

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

I just got back from 10 days in New Zealand 🇳🇿

And I think I'm in love.

I fell asleep on the plane from Vancouver and woke up groggy and out of it 10 hours later.

I was confused.

It was as if the plane had diverted back to British Columbia, except everyone had a mild stroke and talked a bit funny.

First of all, it's gorgeous. Unlike any place I've seen.

It's like British Columbia had a three way with the English countryside and Hawaii.

NZ is the baby that popped out after.

I'm from British Columbia, which is widely considered to be one of the most beautiful places in the world.

NZ puts it to absolute SHAME. It's mind bendingly beautiful.

It's also totally unique. Because New Zealand's ecosystem evolved independently from the rest of the world, it has totally different birds, animals and plants.

Looking around, you feel a bit like a toddler again. Everything is vaguely familiar, but different.

Also:

✅ Despite being a LONG flight (14 hours from Vancouver), it felt like nothing. The plane leaves at 8pm, I read for a few hours then went to sleep. Felt like 2-3 hours.

✅ It's only a 3 hour time difference from the west coast (PST), so there's almost zero jet lag

✅ Despite its size, you can get a wide variety of weather and experiences. It's one of the longest Island Nations vertically, so you've got Hawaii vibes Northlands and snowy mountains in the South Island.

Business wise, it's fascinating:

Because it's only 5 million people, it is often one of the last places that global companies move into.

This creates limitations, but also huge opportunities.

Like the nature, almost every business is a unique brand that we've never heard of.

There's the Home Depot of New Zealand (Bennings).

The Best Buy (Noel Leeming).

Etc. Aside from some big 5 accounting firm and fast food joints, it seemed like most of the big businesses were home grown.

The same thing goes for tech.

For example, Ebay and Craigslist didn't take off. Instead, someone cloned it before they could and became a billionaire (Trade Me).

The market is small, but if you build dominance there, there is riches in this niche.

It's also incredibly accessible. With one tweet, I met a ton of the most successful folks down there (who all seemed to know one another) and even had breakfast with the former Prime Minister!

I'm a pretty big proponent of Canada, but New Zealand is a close second. I could easily see myself spending more time down there.

If anyone has a profitable NZ-based business ($500k+$30M of annual profit) and is looking for a minority or majority investor, I'm all ears.

I'm a convert 😍

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@PeterTerry3 A Bulls supporter?

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@PeterTerry3 @dr_wendym_RN Nothing to see here. Paradise.

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@MoodyHikmet Latest news is that Auckland has lost 30% of its green spaces since 1980. So, no, golf courses stay.

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@nickofnz I think you mean Climatology, which is a field of science that includes topics like modern climate change. Climate change as a theory in climatology is relatively new.

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@kominsens Person with a Penis becomes "PP". So please use your imagination.

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💥 The Oceania record has GONE in the women's 100m, 🇳🇿 New Zealand's @Zoe__hobbs resetting the mark finishing third and qualfying from her heat at #Oregon2022 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Men's final coming up LIVE soon via CONNECT @kayosports, @Foxtel and Fetch!! ▶️ https://t.co/dR3JmGCC9x

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@BLACKCAPS Great finish. Does @BLACKCAPS have the world record for close finishes? Any thoughts about consistent big wins?

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@drdeanknight Katherine Ryan and Rob Campbell discussed the large number and frustration of "too many" comms staff in the RNZ interview of 12 Dec 22. "Management of management and management of political risk". Comms is not seen as the problem, political involvement in the health system is.

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@lyttle_david @JennaLynchNZ Its wilful negligence. She is a board member and has legal and ethical and legal responsibilities. If she ignored the Code of Conduct what else does she ignore.... the Official Secrets Act?