Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Thursday's Early Bird & Dawn Chorus: The elephant in our news
Briefly in the news in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate:
* The Lead: States of emergency were declared, red wind warnings issues, parks closed, buses, ferries and trains, cancelled, houses burned to the ground, power lines downed and picketing for today’s ‘mega-strike’ was cancelled as wild weather ravaged the motu from top to bottom in the last 48 hours. Yet in the dozens of news items broadcast, published online and printed so far, none of them mention that extreme events such as these will be more likely, more extreme and more frequent because of climate…
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