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“IT’S GOING to be bloody awkward when we all have to flee Australia on boats you know” Australian Jon Kudelka
THE CHINESE City of Chongqing has 2.58 million facial recognition cameras covering the city’s population of 14.35 million .One camera for every six citizens. This is a higher number of cameras than Beijing, Shanghai or Shenzhen.
COMMON sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense dancing. – Clive James
THE COST OF Australia’s new French designed submarines has risen $21 billion dollars in a year. The estimated new total is $192 billion. This is more than the total annual cost of all Australia’s welfare and social security. And twenty time more than it spends on climate change mitigation measures.
THE CORE GROUP of bottlenose dolphins in the Bay of Islands is now down to nineteen. This is 66% fewer than at the turn of the century.
NORWAY AND Switzerland give the equivalent $180 per person a year to assist public broadcasting. New Zealand gives $17, only USA gives less with $3. UK’s contribution is $114 and Australia $51.
“ IT’S EASIER to resist at the beginning than at the end” Leonardo da Vinci
FOR QUINTON Jardine fans I can report that after what seems a long break he has produced another book. And it’s right up to Jardine standard.
TWELVE CHILDREN are born in New Zealand with congenital heart defects every week. Each year five hundred major heart operations are carried out on
these ‘heart kids’.
WORLD WIDE tourism continues to rise. In the 1950s 25 million people toured last year the total reached 1.5 billion. Five hundred thousand visited New Zealand in 1980, the number has increased to now being three point five million annually. Infrastructures is not coping at Queenstown, Milford Sound, Franz Joseph, Cathedral Cove and Hot Water Beach.
“HERE’S THE DIFFERENCE between 2003 and now – George Bush respected us enough to put some effort into his lies” Stephen Colbert
PAINTING YOU ROOF? Consider white or a light colour which reflects heat back up where it comes from and hence helping against global warming and also resulting in a cooler house in summer. The currently popular grey roofs do the opposite by absorbing the sun’s heat.
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