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.
Matt Canavan takes charge of the sinking ship.
This is what late-stage institutional decay looks like. Not a dramatic collapse, but a slow, grinding loss of competence and legitimacy – where the government’s primary function shifts from solving problems to perpetuating itself.
We must ensure the materials of modern life are sourced, processed, and refined under the stewardship of free nations. If not, we risk ceding the foundations of our prosperity and defense to those who would use them as leverage. The stakes are high for our economies, militaries and the free world.
The evidence still exists, someone is still responsible for the deaths and injuries that occurred, and the next theatre, the general election, is eight months away. We will continue to pursue every possible avenue to truth and accountability.
