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Free wireless on AKL public transport
3 people support this,
Lets make all public transport in AKL fun, useful, inviting and economical to use. By offering free wireless connection on all of AKL's public transport, more people would use it. see details
nz as one big fun park
0 people support this, addressing Tourism Facing a 9% decline
northern hamisphere's roller coaters gets taken down in their off season ; bring them to nz ; place them in strategic nz areas of a few hectares with fun park activities as they do and voila...provided you have untiold spread all over NZ ; they wi... see details
Nationwide Cycling Highway for New Zealand
3 people support this, addressing Recession and 3 other issues
The Prime Minister and minister of Tourism John key has kicked off the idea of a national cycling highway to stretch from Cape Reinga to the Bluff It will take two years to build and the energies of nearly 4,000 Kiwis who have lost their jobs. ... see details
Government and bank equity investment fund
0 people support this, addressing Recession and 1 other issue
Develop an equity growth fund to allow large institutional investors access to quality investments in the SME sector that are currently unavailable to them. see details
Level the playing field to NZ firms for local and central government procurement
3 people support this, addressing Recession and 2 other issues
Government procurement often favours the large previously proven vendors, many of which are offshore businesses, and also government procurement contracts are sometimes managed by offshore businesses. So the government is going to work to level... see details
Government to work with kiwi entrepreneurs
5 people support this, addressing Recession and 3 other issues
New Zealand's entrepreneurs are building smart and lean global businesses, and this is exactly the mentality we need to run our own government. We need the government to work with kiwi entreprenrus on solutions to government and country issues see details
Foster better communication between Police and Youth
0 people support this, addressing Car Crime & the media
Car crime has very little to do with cars and lots to do with a lack of respect for Police, something which is sadly widespread in our society. I think the slippery slope started with TV shows like the 'Dukes of Hazzard' and Movies such as 'Smokey... see details
we need a responsible driving culture and better laws
0 people support this, addressing Car Crime & the media
I was driven mad by East Christchurch hoons who were partly responsible for me and my family moving house several years ago. We have an in-grained hoon culture that is 50 years or more old and it isn’t going away tomorrow. Each year we have a ... see details
Job Summit
7 people support this, addressing Recession and 1 other issue
The Job Summit Video interviews, blogs and comments from New Zealander's. The Job Summit is bringing together Government leaders, business leaders and entrepreneurs to take New Zealand forward with confidence through the recession and try to reduc... see details
Online Video Promotion
1 person supports this, addressing Recession
Online Video Promotion is a low cost way of doing personalised marketing and sales work while you sleep, eat, do other work and just about anything else. Online Video turns people into customers. Online video is some of the most engaging con... see details
Help our micro business owners become more innovative entrepreneurs
0 people support this, addressing Recession
We have 10's of thousands of micro business owners who have had years of experience running businesses, but may never have done very much innovation, or created any value that is unique in the world. While not every micro business owner is int... see details
Create a self-responsibility and entrepreneurial culture
0 people support this, addressing Recession
We need to recognise that there are no guarantees on jobs being secure just because they've existed in the past. We need to create a growing culture which encourages people to find their own ambition, to strive to improve themselves and their prof... see details
Connect and Promote our global entrepreneurial community
0 people support this, addressing Recession
With our entrepreneurs more connected to each other across the country and the world, they/we can all work together to address more global opportunities. If we self and cross promote, we create more noise, more visibility in the worlds biggest mar... see details
Corporate Welfare and Chocolate Fish
0 people support this, addressing Recession
Business groups are busy lobbying government for corporate welfare. Before we start the lolly scramble we need to ask some serious questions. Sensible criteria need to be put in place. Forget about the pretty mission statements and trendy corporat... see details
Widen Access To Shared Equity Housing Scheme To Newly Unemployed
1 person supports this, addressing Keeping Families In Homes If They Lose Their Jobs
Housing New Zealand is running a shared equity scheme under which the Government owns part of people's houses. If this scheme were extended to the newly unemployed then families could be kept in their houses notwithstanding their losing their jobs. see details
Decriminalize!!
1 person supports this, addressing Decriminalisation of Marijuana
I have no bone with dope either way. I have had it and find it to be a good way to relax and get the mind working.( as long as ya write the ideas down at the time.) As a substitue for alcohol, it`s good for loosing weight and doesnt create a hango... see details
Keep it Illegal
1 person supports this, addressing Decriminalisation of Marijuana
It is hard enough trying to get the population off alcohol and cigarettes. Society does not need another mind altering drug available in dairies. If we legalise Marijuana we will see an influx of tourists here just so they can freely smoke it.... see details
TAX BREAKS FOR NEWBIES
0 people support this, addressing Recession
While watching world wide exchange last night a guest on the show come up with an idea of offering Start ups and new Businesses to the country a five year tax excemption as a way to incourage growth. As Business we rely on each other to pay prompt... see details
Create workplace/school/social mentoring programs to encourage exercise
0 people support this, addressing Obesity rates in NZ continue to rise
A few years ago, a study in the USA determined that having thin/fit friends meant you were more likely to bit fit and thin, while people with heavier friends were more likely to be heavy. In addition, people who try to quit something, whether smo... see details
Business communities that focus on growing online capability
1 person supports this, addressing Building the E-commerce capability of New Zealand SME's
We need to be able to get the people and businesses that are doing well online together with those who need help, and we need to open up the stories of those doing it well and the learnings of those trying. Examples of this in action are: Star... see details
European urban appropriate utility style bicycles and 'slow cycling'.
0 people support this, addressing Fuel costs are way too high
REDUCE:: our dependence on car(bon-burner)s, greenhouse gas emissions, particulate emissions, air pollution, noise , vulnerability to interruptions in supply of oil, the cost to NZs economy of: motor vehicles imports, the crippling cost of fossi... see details
Jenny Williams
0 people support this,
It would help if the minister of tourism spent his holidays in NZ instead of at his multi-million holiday home in Hawaii. What sort of message does that give the world? see details
Legal Lunacy
0 people support this,
Dear Paul, have you checked the NORML website? there needs to be some thoughtful submissions made to senior clergy , police & politicians to get some action among some very concerned brain-cells.... The power of inertia around... see details
Have a positive attitude
11 people support this, addressing Recession
If you think doom is around the corner then it will become reality for you. In every downturn there are opportunities to be made. This is no exception. For a lot of kiwi businesses this is the biggest chance you will ever get to prove your wort... see details
Don't break the law
0 people support this, addressing Police Quota System
Simply put, don't speed, don't run red lights, don't be reckless. It sounds simple because it is. Everyone with a license has to sit the same test, follow the same rules. At the very least expect that if you break the law, then you can face the... see details
Mentor Programmes
2 people support this, addressing Youth Violence
part of the problem is also part of the solution. We are in a generation of absentee fathers and a lack of positive role models in youths life is causing them to gravitate to anything resembling a father figure. Whether that is gangs, media icons ... see details
There is only one solution
0 people support this, addressing New Zealand's copyright law is an ass
and that is to repeal the act. it is plain and simply a breach of human rights and contradicts the concept of innocent until proven guilty. Okay, in reality the execution will probably be a lot less than we all expect, but the principle is stil... see details
The return of the Barter
1 person supports this, addressing Recession
with cashflows getting tighter and peoples pockets getting shallower. Now would be a good time to return to the concept of bartering. Obviously it needs to be balanced with a good cash income, but the reality is bartering works. I can say that... see details
Team Work and Co-operation
3 people support this, addressing Recession
This recession with news and rumours of job losses and business closures, now is the best time to remind ourselves that the best way to overcome hardship is to work together. All problems can provide new opportunities and new ways of getting thing... see details
Step One - Terminate Truancy
2 people support this, addressing Youth Violence
First thing to do is to make sure all school kids are in school during school hours. Through our ongoing Terminate Truancy campaign (http://www.cepnz.co.nz/terminate.html), truant-free-zones are being established in CBDs of towns throughout the co... see details
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