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OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
IN THE shadow of the sprawling Massey University campus, on the outskirts of Palmerston North, farmers and scientists cluster around an old tin garage which is doubling as a lecture theatre during an unseasonal shower of rain.
Massey University's Professor of Animal Welfare Science, David Mellor has just presented a paper to an international conference on laboratory animal science. Nothing unusual you might say, except that in this case Mellor and all the other participants were based at home or at work and not at the conference venue because this was a 'virtual conference'.

OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
OPINION: A press release from the oxygen thieves running the hot air symposium on climate change, known as COP30, grabbed your…