Interesting move from a coalition claiming to be anti regualtion....


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/537...iversities

Possibly not his best move.



https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5371...-next-year

But expect it to take 10 mins to get a text message out at the moment until more satellites are launched.

A new neutrino detector in China aims to spot mysterious ghost particles lurking around us

https://apnews.com/article/jiangmen-unde...2c2e27f3f9

I bet this one comes back to haunt them; people who read tend to have ideas....


https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/cuts-...b-betrayal

Interesting and worrying read: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/18/the-lo...beral-con/

Unbelievably stupid. How they can possibly justify this is beyond belief; it would only take one or two children to die as a result for it to affect their popularity - & perhaps even votes.


And in the middle of a whooping cough outbreak fgs.



https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5368...ough-looms

The Fall of the Soviet Union in Rare Pictures, 1991 

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/fall-so...ures-1991/

How well do you remember this.

Anyone care to guess what " Treasury unwinding overly optimistic assumptions" really means - sounds like bollocks to me... 

and for the first time EVER they have chosen not to blame the previous government?

Quote:Finance Minister Nicola Willis said the forecasts showed the economic downturn started sooner and was deeper than had been previously thought

She said the worsening of the financial backdrop was not a result of government decisions.
"It has been driven largely by Treasury unwinding overly optimistic assumptions about the state of the economy."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5369...until-2029

Apparently this is the alleged offender in the shootings that happened on the 309 Road last week. I immediately suspected it may have been retribution against poachers but this puts a whole different perspective on the event.