Video from America : Street protest —Washington DC #inauguration

Footage direct from a reader on site today….

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Obama holds final press conference https://t.co/qqkHu4RSya

— RNZ News (@rnz_news) January 18, 2017

Trump inauguration boycott escalates https://t.co/mtxwAP5xTc

— RNZ News (@rnz_news) January 18, 2017

Xero chair resigns after Trump appointment https://t.co/liXBXNHtJW

— RNZ News (@rnz_news) January 19, 2017

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

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Jarrod Stewart is EXACTLY RIGHT [what would Steve Thompson know]

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Dunedin City Council-owned company [Aurora Energy Ltd] was showing signs it would return to its old ways as soon as public pressure began to lift.

ODT Online Thu, 19 Jan 2017
Claim Aurora facing $1b bill
By Vaughan Elder
The former director of Aurora Energy’s $30 million accelerated pole replacement programme says it is doomed to fail and believes the company faces a billion-dollar spend to upgrade its network. Jarrod Stewart says he quit the role last month in part because he believed the programme to replace thousands of compromised poles would be mishandled so badly someone would be injured. “I don’t enter jobs with the premise that I am going to fail,” Mr Stewart said. His claims were yesterday disputed by Aurora and Delta chairman Steve Thompson, who said they were “exaggerated” and it was disappointing he had gone public after leaving the company.
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For real change to happen there needed to be a clean-out of management and the appointment of a “fixer” chief executive with an appetite for change and a willingness to make unpopular decisions.

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

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