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Media Hit Job of the Day
Imagine attacking people for getting off their behinds and coordinating to give practical much-needed help to New Zealand flood victims. You don’t have to imagine it because The NZ Herald’s David ‘king of hit jobs’ Fisher has already done it. Cyclone Gabrielle: Ignore conspiracy influencer Chantelle Baker,
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View from Your Window
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Why We Should Bury Our Power Lines
Timothy Welch Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning University of Auckland Another extreme weather event has highlighted the weak points in New Zealand’s critical infrastructure. As Cyclone Gabrielle ripped across the North Island, nearly 225,000 people lost power. The cause is relatively obvious: many houses and buildings are connected
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A Mobile Life: Part One
Wanderer It all started with a cruise, a bit more than a decade ago. Looking for a different way to holiday with the family, we booked a small, inside cabin on a P&O liner, boarded, unpacked our stuff and spent 10-12 glorious days wandering around the ship
Cruise Ship Realities
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Currently, debate is occurring in Auckland re the location of a cruise ship terminal. Newspaper correspondents and commentators all talk of the economic benefit from a suitable facility, stemming from the tourists retail spending. The reality is very different. Wellington currently cops circa 130 cruise
Climate Change Monies Needed at Home
If Cyclone Gabrielle has taught us anything it is that when it comes to so-called climate change or global warming, charity begins at home. It’s past time we stopped trying to save the world (which we can’t) and looked at the crises we have in our own
An Open Letter to the PM
Professor Elizabeth Rata bassettbrashandhide.com Dear Prime Minister Hipkins, We, the undersigned, draw your attention to two major problems in the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum Refresh policy and in the associated NCEA qualification reforms. These problems were created during your tenure as Minister of Education and can only be
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So What Do You Propose to Replace Roads With?
Politicians really give me the screaming dabdabs sometimes. The latest fool to utter foolish words is Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, who has declared that NZ needs to “get real” about its vulnerable roading network. Say what? New Zealand needs to “get real” about its vulnerable roading network in the aftermath