The International Visitor Levy is intended for upgrading infrastructure to cope with tourism demands. Like public toilets and carparks at national parks. Using that money to promote *more* tourism is serving the opposite purpose to what was intended.

Depends which bus. The 29 to the interchange does work with contactless, but the other routes don’t (yet).

One week to go though!

If you have had two doses you are considered immune for life. If your doses aren’t documented in the system, your GP can give you a full course, fully funded. Best to talk to your doctor or ring healthline for more info.

Reinstalled them in the nest and reinstalled the nest up in our cabbage tree. Woven into the leaves a bit more securely.

Took dad a while to figure out how to get to them but they’re all happy now.

Strange that the same people who are always bleating about wasting ratepayer money are now calling a by-election a “pittance”. It’s like $70k.

Mike even got more votes than Ali Jones, who lost the race for council. The Innes community has confidence in him and the team, clearly.

That was mostly untouched from before I started. I was prompted to do this because almost a third of the original article was that section, and I thought that was a bit too much weight on their outdated opinions.

You can read all about them here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%8D...

Can't believe this nutter got re-elected

"the consultations necessary to make a decision on your
request are such that a thorough response cannot reasonably be made within the original 20-
working-day limit"

Something smells a bit fishy here.