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Damian5, You are apparently quoting one shameful piece of NZ history to rubbish a whole people. If this really did happen I am sure every NZ'er is ahamed but the contribution that NZ has made over the years surely outweighs an act by a small number of people. There have been small numbers of Americans who also have done shameful things in your countries past, yet you want to labour on this point and attack the people of NZ for something that happened almost 60 years ago.

If you want I could begin listing moments of shame from American history.

Re the latest bit of dribble you posted:
In New Zealand, business owners currently do not have the right to:
1. Hire whom they choose
I have been hiring staff in NZ for 15 years and always hire whome I choose.
2. Fire whom they choose
I have unfortunately on occassion had to fire people, never had a problem with this either so long as it was legal.
3. Open for business on whatever day they choose
My company was open 7 days 24hours. There are some restrictions on opening times of licensed premises as there are in most countries.
4. Keep the money they earn
I certainly do.
5. Pay their staff the salary they choose
Again there are minumum salary levels as there are in most countries.
6. Expand their businesses without consent from the State building authorities
If you want to build you need the right permision, I don't know of any civilised country where you can build without authority.
7. Make individual contractual agreements with staff
B**sh*t. All my companies staff are either on individual or collective contracts.
8. Stop unions entering their businesses
If the staff want to be part of a union that is their right.
9. Stop unions accessing private files about their business
A union has very limited access to files. Only HR at the individuals consent.
10. Discriminate against anyone on any basis (eg age, race, culture, sex, appearance)
Correct and proud of it. Is this a problem for you????

Haha - you tell him. I have to say it again, Damian5 is a crackpot. It seems he's right about the watersiders - and it's a real shame such a thing ever happened in New Zealand - but given the rest of his spiel, I wouldn't want to take his word for anything.

He seems to want to live in a country where there is no empoyment protection, no minumum wage, full on discrimination based on, say culture, religion or gender, and no building code. Bugger - think we're painting a picture of Afganastan here...