By 8 am Auckland was in gridlock. At 9 am when most retailers would open, Queen St was in turmoil without those parking spaces. Most motorists were blaming the motorcyclists, as this deliberate move to bring Auckland CBD to its knees was kept reasonably quiet so no media warning of this protest parking strategy had been published.
It was a great privilege for my generation to grow up admiring and being inspired by these remarkable people. It is clear that there are many role models for 10-year-old NZers today to be as inspired by as I was at Cooks Gardens in the 1970s.
Estimates suggest climate-related disasters killed around 50 times more people a century ago, and in the 1870s the death toll was almost 10 times higher again, underscoring the long-term decline in climate disaster mortality.
So where, in just 22 years, did these extra 35,000 Ngāi Tahu come from?
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The end goal of all of this, in Trump’s mind, is to make the Western Hemisphere as democratic and as economically sound as possible. Personally, I don’t have a problem with that.
The debate has become increasingly political and personal, with concerns raised about domestic policy settings that could affect New Zealand’s ‘premium’ food branding, including proposed genetic engineering reforms and environmental initiatives targeting agricultural emissions.
