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She’s also dumbfounded by the fact that last year when the New Zealand Government asked people to stop working and stay home for six weeks, virtually the whole population just did exactly that. “Here in the US the government knows that no-one trusts them and nobody would obey them if they told them to stay home,” he told me. “It’s staggering that that many New Zealanders trust their government that much.” Kevin Stent/Stuff Mike O’Donnell: “Across a range of international indexes, New Zealand ranks as a world leader in trust and confidence in government, and its growing.”

Supplied Sommeliers and brothers, Pete and John Connell founded online retailer By the Bottle, which curates a selection of organic, natural, biodynamic and sustainably-produced wines. The demand for organic, biodynamic and natural wines is growing, with organic grape production expanding from 600 hectares in 2008 to 2283ha last year, and has increased by 33 per cent since 2017, according to the latest organic market data from Organics Aotearoa. New Zealand exported $6.2 million of organic wine last year, up 40 per cent compared to $46.5m in 2017, and was worth $37.3m in domestic sales, up 3...