For ducks’ sake, state bureaucrats go on $31,000 wild goose chase

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Public servants trekked to Denmark’s frigid north in search of the pink-footed goose. The birds didn’t show up.

It’s not every day we can bring you a tale of state bureaucrats spending tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money toAnti-duck-hunting activists have extracted, through a prolonged freedom-of-information struggle, the story of how Game Management Authority boss, went on a jaunt to Denmark four years ago, at a cost to taxpayers of $31,000, to check out some geese, who clearly hadn’t read the script.

But campaigners from the anti-duck-hunting movement, who are disdainful of the Game Management Authority’s efforts on humane standards, reckon there’s nothing in the report that could not have been “easily gathered via email or Zoom”.We put that one on Monday to Toop, who happens to be acting for Ford right now, and he was having none of it.

Once that’s all sorted, the party can get back to the big ideological issues, as Cameron so eloquently put it. Markets were told on Monday that Herrero will stand down in 12 months and that his remuneration for his remaining stint behind the till at Lovisa will take quite the haircut, with the Spaniard earning a touch under $2 million for the year, although his multimillion-dollar long-term bonuses, which will vest in that period, should be some consolation.’s pencil case emporium chain, Smiggle, in a talent-poaching exercise that has not gone unremarked upon by observers of the sector.

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