That echoes his squeeze on science funding. But at his post-cabinet press conference last week, Mr English chose anecdotes, not data, to justify his programme of torrential immigration. But Mr English can hardly be data-king one day and Winston Peters-style anecdote-baron the next. The 2016 Budget trumpeted a $410.5million rise in government funding of science and innovation from fiscal 2015-16 to $1603.3million in 2019-20. The good news: scientists here seem to do ``more with less'', which Mr English pushed while finance minister.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 06, 2017 17:23 UTC