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City to be mothballed as budget cuts hit the bone (www.waikatotimes.co.nz)
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Jokes about Hamilton aside, this kind of sucks.

As someone who lives here it's sad to see and I'll get to pay for it through rates rises too!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't see Canada, US, Aussie, UK etc doing much better judging from the news.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They aren't- NZ is at the whim of global forces as we don't have the economy, population or investment to do anything but follow the crowd.