The public speak on the trucker protest
Jul 4th, 2008 | By Newswire Team | Category: UncategorizedThe Newswire team asks the public: “Do you support the trucker’s protest against the raising of road user charges?”
Here’s what they had to say:
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Andrew Hellyer, 24
Technical Specialist, Pukerua Bay
“I support it.”
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Darren Tehuia, 38
Operations Manager, Auckland
“So they should. The way society is going it’s only a matter of us preparing for what the governments decisions are going to be.”
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John Bowie, 55
Publisher, Karori
“Yes. With the current environment and petrol prices and everything, I think to lay that on is a bit rich.”
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Natalia Zaya, 20
“Yeah, it’s like everything is going up in NZ and it’s like not fair for them, because it’s just their job that they’re doing.”
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Victoria Lister, 22
Student, Invercargill
“Yes. I live on Cuba Street, it’s driving me crazy to be honest, but it’s only for one morning.”
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Alice Mcnatty, 25
DOC Employee
“I’m indifferent to it, I don’t really know enough about it.”
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Brendan Carson, 27
Radio Active employee, CBD
“Yes, but not the way they’ve done it. It’s not creating much chaos. They’d have done better to target politicians or government cars.”
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Jessica Green, 22
Social Worker, Palmerston North
Yep. My old man is in the convoy so I support them completely, 100%. The costs all come back to the consumer
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Paul Evans, 30
Manager, Aro Valley
Really, the government will do what they want. They won’t achieve much, just a lot of noise. I’m more worried about the price of milk
Contributed by Reesh Lyon, Malia Sio, Dave Banks, Charlina Tone
























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