No, not in any Gerry Brownlee way, but if there’s going to be any strengthening going on why mess with 30%? Why put all that kind of money into strengthening when to strengthen to 100% won’t cost another 70% but much much less? (more…)
No, not in any Gerry Brownlee way, but if there’s going to be any strengthening going on why mess with 30%? Why put all that kind of money into strengthening when to strengthen to 100% won’t cost another 70% but much much less? (more…)
Learning from Christchurch – or not.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011Cr Andy Foster’s comment over on EyeoftheFish regarding issues of eq preparedness in Wellington highlight, for me at least, something of the difficulties of this particular discussion (more…)
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