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Welcome to your mining future under National

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  1. For many Kiwis, their mining future is in Australia. Better pay, better unions, better workplace safety, more affordable housing & lifestyle. Your future awaits.

    • Have you not read the news lately.
      China is reducing iron ore imports dramatically. Aussie commentators are increasingly warning of a major collapse of the Aussie economy.
      Mining over there is retrenching fast so the future for Kiwis to go over there is looking pretty poor.
      Construction is also very sick. 2 tradie grandchildren have backed off going because of lack of job security. May as well be unemployed here where they have family instead of over there on their own.

  2. This early personal ‘diggers’ story told and sung by Paul Metsers, NZ. Not destructive as on an industrial scale but part of a needy and primitive venture. https://folksong.org.nz/fwltgold/
    Paul Metsers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WspjMbAitiU

    ‘Farewell to the Gold’
    It’s nearly two years since I left my old mother
    For adventure and gold by the pound.
    With Jimmy the prospector, he was another,
    For the hills of Otago was bound. …

    We sluiced and we cradled for day after day
    Barely making enough to get by;
    ‘Til a terrible flood swept poor Jimmy away
    During six stormy days in July …
    chorus:
    Farewell to the gold that never I found,
    Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound;
    For it’s only when dreaming that I see you gleaming
    Down in the dark deep underground.

  3. Attention.
    The Coalition of Corruption wishes to advise that swimmable no longer means “wadeable”, but in fact now means “approachable to a distance no less than 20 metres – perosnal protective equipment recommended”.

    They advise the squeezed middle to use their $125* per week tax cuts to build a backyard swimming pool if a full water experience is required.
    (* may include any sum down to zero).

  4. I grew up close to the Ohinemuru River.
    The mines polluting it now closed around 100 years ago. It took around seventy years for this river to recover from the waste of mining. It finally had fish in it again around thirty years ago.
    And now?
    I cannot think of a better example of the disasterous long term effects of mining.

  5. 2024 Vintage preordained toxic legacy orange magic waters – the ready made garanteed antidote to fast track, just waiting to be bottled and sent to Bellamys, for matua Shane to sip on while contemplating the folly of his ways.

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