Make no mistake. The new broom Chief Executive from overseas typically sees New Zealand as an economic colony from which the highest company profit, and personal performance bonus, must be wrung in the shortest possible time. That system is no different in principle to that applying in the ancient Roman Empire. Provincial Governors extracted as much revenue out of the province as possible to pay for the self-indulgent tastes of the Emperor, and for their own retirement in a Florentine palace. That sort of public policy had an inevitable result, including in the then minor province of Judea.
History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations which lost their economic sovereignty.
Look at Africa - many countries were colonised and exploited to provide goods and labour for the financial barons of Europe and England. Centuries later, they are still trying to recover. The whole financial betrayal of our country is anathema to New Zealand First. I don't think I will give them that pleasure today. But this audience knows the business, and should be aware of what will be in the next Coalition negotiations that are of direct relevance to the business you are in.