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When actor Ben Lawson and I sit down for lunch, it is exactly a year to the day that the Bureau of Meteorology predicted the bushfire season was about to get much, much worse.
At the time, Kangaroo Island and Gospers Mountain were on fire. Six people had died and a thousand homes had been lost. By the time the fire season ended in late January, that prediction had come true and those numbers had climbed to 34 and 3500. About 17 million hectares had burnt; it is estimated that 1 billion animals died.
Actor Ben Lawson is refreshingly honest about the struggles faced by actors.Â
Invercargill and Dunedin have been closed by floods once a decade or so.
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Large parts of Dunedin are below mean sea level, some around a metre. Invercargill is just above, but close enough that a flood combined with a high tide makes things pretty wet. Both suffer from being built on very weak ground, especially Invercargill, so both are never going to be more than they are now and unlikely to get much future investment.
It s not only airports that are at risk from sea level rise. The State Highway and railway going past Dunedin Airport are only slightly higher and just as at risk in many other places.
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:06 am, January 23rd, 2021 - 38 comments
When the government proposed declaring a climate emergency in December last year, Jacinda Ardern said this,
This declaration is an acknowledgment of the next generation: an acknowledgment of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and if we do not take action now. When I visit schools, when I read children’s letters, I’m often struck by how deeply personal the climate crisis is to them. We cannot underestimate a generation, full of angst and anxiety over the reality of climate change for them and their generation. And it is up to us to make sure that we demonstrate there is a pathway, there is a plan for action, and there is a reason for hope. For them, it is instinctual. It is tangible. It is real. It is about the country they will inherit and it’s about the burden of debt they will inherit unless we make s
Budget 2021 will be delivered on Thursday 20 May, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced today. “My focus continues to be on making sure spending is targeted at the areas and people that need it the most. “We will manage the books carefully including ensuring we are getting value for money .
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Morena ki a tatau, Tena tatau i nga kaupapa hauora, E tuitui nei i a tatau i tēnei ata, Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. When we were re-elected with a clear mandate for change, our Government made three promises: To keep New Zealanders safe from COVID-19 To .