Most Aucklanders believe Sir Dove-Myer Robinson was the most effective and sensible mayor the city ever had.
Robbie’s famous line was that Auckland was building “a giant Los Angeles without the sunshine”. He was ridiculed at the time, but he was right: decades later, congestion became Auckland’s defining problem and the same rail tunnel he argued for has now been built.
Geoff has spent years waging a one-man war on crumbling roads, bureaucratic inertia and the maddening gap between what officials promise and what actually gets fixed.
The water is free, but the children are the price.
“These aren’t people returning from a holiday… these are members of a death cult.”
Allan government vows to bail the state’s sinking ship with a thimble.
Trump unleashes $1,000-per-child accounts as billionaire Dell drops $6.25 billion.
