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.
If you enjoy proper yarns about New Zealand politics with zero filter, this one’s for you.
A thoughtful and sometimes provocative conversation that gives listeners the real context behind one of New Zealand’s most discussed new platforms.
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You can’t spend a century removing the institutions that give people purpose, accountability, and mutual necessity, and then be surprised when they reach for something that makes the absence feel like nothing at all.
They didn’t have pasta, but a Roman recipe book has some familiar Mediterranean favourites.
