Tag: Liz Waters Editorial

If we don’t start taking care of families – all of them, everywhere like, now – we won’t have a civilisation. National news on TV1...

This week, the Waiheke Local Board voted to investigate a proposal to shift our Whakanewha Regional Park into the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. (See story...

Monday’s dawn service, the 106th annual commemoration of the brutal assault on Chunuk Bair, left me in tears. Partly for my own dead, including two parents...

So here we are, Easter 2022, perhaps the strangest year yet. Nearly eight billion people, all but a tiny fraction of us struggling to find...

I think it’s struck most of us on the island that things are cracking up, if not immediately for ourselves, for a lot of...

I doubt if any of us will easily forget the images out of Ukraine these last three weeks. It may be, as one local...

A fortnight ago, I had my yacht hauled out at Half Moon Bay, pattering down to Kennedy Point every day for a mini cruise across to...

Buried in Auckland Council’s 500 page-review of Auckland’s hard-won regional parks is a one-sentence proposal to put 21 regional and island regional parks amounting...

As we go into a local government election year and find ourselves mired in populism, personality slanging matches and much public angst about getting...

It’s not easy to make sense of what’s going on in the world at present, whether it’s the night’s television news garnished with the...