OPINION: Recent proposals by the Government to make it easier for regions to get workers look like a step — if not a leap — in the right direction.

OPINION: They say when you point a finger at someone in condemnation you have three fingers pointing back at yourself.

While your old mate is on the topic of Landcorp – or Pamu as it likes to call itself these days – he reckons farmers and others are getting a little tired of the poor performing state farmer’s virtue signalling, but lack of real action where it counts.

Your canine crusader was amused to hear that the spin doctors at Twitch & Tweet – more commonly known as Forest & Bird – were unhappy with the way one of its activists was described in a story run in Rural News in December last year on the way the government farmer Landcorp is playing politics and sucking up to the environmental sector.