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Minister for Motorways
We don't have a Transport Minister, we only have a Vogon. Prostetnic Vogon Joyce.
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Priceless. Hat-tip to the Economist.
In February, the government revealed it was considering opening some of the country’s pristine public land up for mining—an activity to which the dwarves in “The Hobbit” are much given, but which is not popular with more elvish sensibilities.
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Does Minister Brownlee have shares in the Blue Sky Company?
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Hilary: and when people are antsing about whether they'll still have a job next week, this is increasingly looking like Forbes-Coates 2.0.
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Or just as 'can't we do something better than primary industry for once, ffs' issue.
My cross-posts from Keith Ng's latest thread:
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I'd say that our dear leaders think Kath & Kim is a training manual. The sort of stuff David Harris and Germaine Greer have previously warned about.#2:
Ernie Rutherford will be redlining in his grave. "We've got no money, so we've got to think."IIRC wasn't it one of us who likened Australia to a nation of shoe factory-hands who won the lottery?
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From Rod Oram's comments, it sounds like it's not just an ecological issue, but suspiciously also a corporate welfare one too.
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Worked out why my Telecom DSL connection was running slow. I went over my limit with two weeks to go.
One of the gamesmasters in our RPG group is looking to switch to Orcon for that very same reason.
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We're no Australia and our future has to lie somewhere else rather than drilling into high grade conservation land for God's sake.
Ernie Rutherford will be redlining in his grave. "We've got no money, so we've got to think."
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For Waihi, having a gold mine on the doorstep has not proved a path to riches, with welfare dependency higher than in neighbouring towns.
Republic of Nauru, anybody?