Heather Duplessy-Allen

And the plan was basically, I think, to fly a charter plane out of Christchurch, chuck 70 dogs on it, and get them over to Australia before the ban kicks in here next month.

and then renders, obviously, the industry dead, essentially.

And this is to try to save the best of the dogs and try to save the businesses associated with them and so on.

Anyway, the Aussies have picked up on it.

New South Wales Green Senator Maureen Faruqi has drawn attention to it, said those dogs, quite rightly, said those dogs will become the responsibility of Australians to rehome, and they already have a rehoming crisis.

Now, all you need...

It's the Greens in Australia to be onto it, to whip the Australians up, and I suspect that's not going to happen.

But they've got to ask themselves a question, right?

If the dogs don't go to Australia, what do they think happens to the dogs over here?

Because we don't need them for the racing anymore.

How do they think that story ends?

Ten away from nine.

Hot off the press, just got a press release through from the new Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister, Cameron Brewer, which I am reading as them finally giving up.

This is the National Party finally giving up on the credit card surcharge ban that they've been talking about for ages.

So what this release basically says is nothing we didn't already know.

The Commerce Commission has released a draft decision today recommending that the fees that businesses have to pay banks to accept company cards have to be reduced.

And so it makes a big play of it.

And he says, thanks to the work done by the commission, businesses will be expected to save up to $290 million a year in reducing these cost benefits.

These costs benefit consumers.

Businesses will pass these savings through.