Bill Day

Just noticed that the Dom Post last week had a cool profile of Bill Day.

Bill is one of NZ’s leading entrepreneurs and the force behind Seaworks. Also one of the nicest people you can hope to meet.

Bill’s also Vice-Chair (the other one!) of the NZ Business Roundtable. That of course makes him an evil villain to some. Bill comments:

Convinced that it is promoting the best interests of New Zealand, he says the Roundtable cops a lot of flak, but mainly because it is right. “It is easier to demonise them than argue with them. Having a reasoned debate with them is bloody hard, because their research is so good.”

We’ve just seen this of course last week with the CIS study of the extra $20 billion spending. Lots of demonising the author and publisher and next to zero actual debating the facts.