November 25, 2012
headline vs story
From Stuff: the headline figure is a 3-year total
Judges’ partners claim $500k
but then the story does the arithmetic
There are about 170 judges in New Zealand, meaning the annual amount claimed by partners averaged less than $1000 per judge.
They could also have noted it was a bit under 3% of the total claims for judges expenses.
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