Sooo... Does that indicate it's not a steering issue?
I'm wondering about drunk captains, but really that'd be more of a cruise ship thing, in all fairness
Shiiit, I'd pay to see that
Public Service Minister Nicola Willis was grilled at the governance and administration select committee today about the thousands of job losses.
What got me the most was:
> "I am really comfortable with asking government agencies to consider, are there ways that you can innovate to deliver the same level of service while taking less taxpayer dollars to do it."
> "In fact, that should be how we conduct ourselves every day, not just in the lead up to a Budget"
Honestly, we've been doing that every year for decades, now!
Oh no... Not again?
Classic national. Great article, though
I'm going to put my tin foil hat on here, stand back and all that...
...maybe that was the result of some 'influence' someone applied?
These are the same muppets that have the great kiwi duopoly a free pass
I thought this was a sad closing paragraph:
"But if we keep asking the questions, and we keep agitating and we keep presenting the evidence, then hopefully we will get some traction sometime."
Oh sure, that's what the 3 horsemen are doing, but the schools could play this too... It's risky, but every teacher I've met had indicated things have been bad for decades
I'm starting to wonder if this is a chance for school boards/principles to get away from 'the MoE overreach' and constant curriculum alterations...
I can see how it would be tempting to be given funds and get back to teaching how they think is the best way to do it (rightly or wrongly!).
I'm loving the deviant energy in this!
Maybe I've had too many bad felafel dishes, but I reckon the yogurt is a better choice over avocado. Definitely less woke, though... Maybe I need to boost the humus?
while it's great there's robust debate (elsewhere in this thread), gven all the other self-serving things this govt has done, I think we can take this as unlikely to go well for 'the rest of us'...
I've been waiting for the external agencies to recognise we're all talk lately. This is good (in a way), hopefully there will be some consequences, but I doubt it, or if so, it'll be so delayed that these clowns will continue willfully ambivalent
The removed panel will be stored by the museum, and no decision has been made about its future.
Now is time to change Te Papa's Treaty of Waitangi display, the museum's co-leaders say.
It comes after the museum left a defaced version of the Treaty of Waitangi on display over summer to enable "valuable conversations" about te Tiriti o Waitangi
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Te Papa said it would consult with te Tiriti experts, iwi and communities for the permanent exhibition
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The removed panel will be stored by the museum, and while no decision has been made about its future, Johnston said it was part of the exhibition's history and the story of te Tiriti o Waitangi.
So what now? If I remember, reading were talking the council into buying it and leasing it back to them, or something similar?
I just hope we end up with a better outcome, somehow - presumably it's wholly left up to reading however? Not sure if that's more likely without the council involved or not (yes, that's a dig at our council, but also I imagine reading are just profit-seeking corporates if they own a cinema chain).
- I can't see this ending well...
I always hated that building and felt like the last thing we needed was yet another cinema chain (then mid-city collapsed and that helped somewhat)
I realised there's the cable car too, although that's a funny great area.
Certainly the prospect of building a tunnel under the guts of the city for several km (where it's likely to cross a fault line) is edging towards this kind of nightmare: https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/files/2011/03/10_10-Canterbury-22.jpg
I can't see how a tunnel would sustain that, which seems like a death knell for the whole idea...
So there's 3 tunnels that we run vehicles through, day to day (that im aware of). Terrace tunnel, mt Vic and the bus tunnel. The city would struggle with either of them collapsing, and I understand the ones under mt Vic are already in dire straits, going by some of the points hopeful mayors that they were campaigning on. I'm no expert but your claim feels like a huge stretch.
As for earthquakes, there's one that was readily found via a search in 1855 and that "considerably reshaped the geography", so, respectfully, I completely disagree. https://www.wcl.govt.nz/heritage/earthquakes.html
edit sorry, I should have clarified earlier, it's the major quakes I'm concerned about. Not the frequent little ones
It's an amazing idea, but the seismic implications are enough to discourage it, I'd have thought.
How the heck does one build it with a straight face when we have so many quakes and have been expecting something major for decades?