Daily review 15/08/2025

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   $550M for two ferries.

   $222M for nothing.

   The coalition responsible with our money.

   $550M and two new ferries, one in 2025 and one in 2026.

   They have yet to tender for any ferries.

   And have been in government for nearly two years.

   And nothing done on shore by them yet, just a delay here to.

   All they have is there was a blow out in cost for onshore Irex costs.

   Just as for the how many other infrastructure projects that went ahead anyhow.

   https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/15/how-much-it-cost-to-cancel-irex-ferry-contract/
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      Current costs, for nothing, are $671M.

      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/570081/final-cost-of-breaking-south-korean-ferry-contract-revealed

      Thanks, Nicola.

      It's severely gross mismanagement and I can't believe the opposition, the media, and the public are not asking for her resignation.

      Still, losing $671M pales in comparison to the damage she's done elsewhere to the economy.
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      What does $671M of taxpayers’ money buy under the Coalition?

      Finger pointing (aka giving the finger) at the previous government (incl. Winston ‘Rainbow Man’ Peters).
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   Cattle disease comes out of Central America towards Texas.

   This should result in similar beef payouts for exporters despite the 15% tariffs (that is a continuing shortage of domestic supply).

   He was only eight years old in 1973, but fifth-generation Texas rancher Kip Dove remembers spending countless days trotting up to sick and dying cattle on horseback that year during the last major outbreak of flesh-eating screwworm.

   https://www.reuters.com/world/texas-cattle-country-ranchers-brace-flesh-eating-screwworms-2025-08-15/
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      Here's hoping the cocs haven't cut back on border checks,

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