What we can learn from a Samsung Galaxy mobile

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Sat, 24 Jun 2023

A colleague and I had lunch the other day and we got bogged down with the current state of affairs in New Zealand.We face crime problems, education problems, roading and other infrastructure problems, health problems and, sadly, even race problems. There are many reasons for these, but there's one common thread.New Zealand is a small, low-growth and low-income economy, which simply means we don’t have enough income, assets or wealth to fund all the projects we need if we're to believe we're a first-world, developed econo...

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