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Today on The Spinoff: How tauiwi are celebrating Matariki, the David Lange effect in the White House and what we’re watching over the long weekend.
“Cost: An estimated $900m for two ships, which could be as much as $3b when you include the cost of new wharves and terminals.
Benefit: Passengers tend to prefer boats that don’t crash.
Cost: It would set an expensive precedent that all outdated and dysfunctional infrastructure should be replaced.
Benefit: A reliable, grown-up ferry network that people don’t have to worry about constantly.
Cost: We’d still have to worry about broken pylons, broken planes, broken rail, broken roads and broken pipes.
Benefit: We might get a new Interislander jingle.”
Listen to episode 3 of Juggernaut – ‘Uranium on Your Breath’
David Lange emerges as an anti-nuclear champion. The Americans are furious and they become even angrier when he takes the stage at the Oxford Union. When an act of state terrorism sees a Greenpeace ship sunk, the public mood on nukes only solidifies. Follow now to make sure you get every episode.
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‘Turd in a punchbowl’: the David Lange effect in the White House
‘More to connect us than to divide us’: How tauiwi are celebrating Matariki
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