“The fact we are all here today is recognition of what an incredibly important project this is,” she said. “An exercise of this size is not just a matter of picking up tools and locating them down there and constructing something, it will be a six-year project that will have a massive local benefit.”
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pets a husky during a visit to the International Antarctic Centre. The cost of the rebuild had increased by more than $50m since it was first unveiled in June 2019, but Ardern said the work would be done “without question” because of how critical Scott Base was.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was among the first to get a virtual tour of the Scott Base rebuild, and said the work would be done "without question".