$468.8 million SO FAR. NOT INCLUDING THE BREAK CLAUSES ON THE FERRIES. THIS COULD COST A BILLION DOLLARS WHICH IRONICALLY WOULD HAVE GONE ALMOST ALL THE WAY FOR PAYING FOR THE PORT UPGRADED AND FERRIES. From here: businessdesk.co.nz/article/tran...
- 'We need to scale back costs in Dunedin so that there is money to invest in hospitals elsewhere' - 'So are going to invest elsewhere? - 'Lol nope. Cutting everything. Tax breaks and roads, innit.'
Marcellus Williams isn't facing an execution, he is facing being murdered. Literally everyone involved in his case, the prosecutor, the detective, even the victim's family are advocating for Marcellus Williams. He is an innocent man, and DNA evidence has proven such. 1/2
So like, I’m a Jew in America and I grew up in a place without a whole lot of other Jews, and I’m going to try to analogize here: giving your kids presents from Santa on Christmas is fine even if you’re not Christian. Mimicking Communion is not. this is much more like the second one.
It’s because, in NZ, senior scientists broadly still insist on sticking to facts and peer-reviewed research. So finding a corrupt scientist who will be National’s beard for deliberately anti-evidence decisions is very tricky. Expect whoever eventually fills this role to be a fraud. #nzpol
“Evidence has become an inconvenience" and the coalition ignores data anyway. ‘Inconvenient truths' stall naming PM’s science chief newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/24/s...
A Government committed to data-based decisions has cut nearly 400 science roles, while the PM's own expert position has sat vacant for months.
Your friendly reminder that courts derrive their authority from the consent of the governed. Any court that mandates the murder of an innocent deserved to have that consent withdrawn with a cry of, "You and whose army you fucking ghouls?"Your friendly reminder that courts derrive their authority from the consent of the governed. Any court that mandates the murder of an innocent deserved to have that consent withdrawn with a cry of, "You and whose army you fucking ghouls?"
As far as I can make out Brash is suing Hooton for defaming him when he said Brash pretends to be racist to stir up racial tensions. Brash takes that as an insult agin his integrity as he is not pretending. thespinoff.co.nz/media/24-09-...
An astonishing monologue from the centre right commentator electrified audiences – then Don Brash called in the lawyers.
NASA EARTH 🎑 Mount Taranaki’s Ring of Forest: The precise geometry of the protected area encompassing an iconic New Zealand volcano is unmistakable from space.
The precise geometry of the protected area encompassing an iconic New Zealand volcano is unmistakable from space.