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A freak tornado has damaged up to 50 homes in the town of Levin. Around 6:30am last last Friday, the tornado tore through the Horowhenua district and saw roofs lifted off houses, powerlines and trees ripped out of the ground, and a subsequent gas leak causing nearby SH1 to close. In addition to the tornado, Metservice reported 12,000 lightning strikes over the course of the morning, and a hail storm in nearby Ōhau was so powerful it caused dents in resident’s cars. The Horowhenua District Council reports that around 250 volunteers helped out over the weekend with clean up efforts, and so far, seven houses have been rendered uninhabitable - although that probably still wouldn’t stop Lodge from trying to rent them out for $700 a week. Scientists predict that with global temperatures rising due to climate change, weather events will be more extreme and happen more often.
10,000 health workers across the country walked off the job last week as part of a strike for ‘fair pay and conditions.’ At the moment, many of our most crucial hospital and healthcare workers are being paid just over the minimum wage - much less than any middle-manager at Waikato DHB, and certainly much less than they deserve for keeping people alive. It has been an incredibly rough few years for our healthcare workers on the frontline dealing with COVID-19, and the Public Service Association believes that now is the best time to push for change before DHBs around the country get absorbed in to new entity HealthNZ on July 1st. After declining a ‘completely inadequate’ pay offer from DHBs, the PSA union is now ‘calling for negotiations to be handed over to HealthNZ… as we have lost confidence in the Ministry of Health.’ Who hasn’t, tbh.
YEAH, IT’S QUEER
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