March for Science: Wellington, New Zealand

Today, my last day in New Zealand for this visit, I was honoured to be able to attend the Wellington March for Science. Its geographic position means that New Zealand has kicked off a global series of events – I think over 600 are planned.  The Wellington March for Science was  one of the three that happened this morning; Auckland follows this afternoon.  The event was well-attended in glorious, fabulous sunshine – Wellington was at its very best.  The crowd initially assembled at the Civic Square:

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Before marching over to the National Museum at Te Papa:

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And then five short speeches, all good natured and well received:

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There were some brilliant placards:

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Of course different people were there for different reasons 😉

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But thank you to everyone who was there for a happy, well-organised, positive and uplifting day.  I wish everyone who is marching today my best wishes.  This is so very important.