Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
How did we get to this?
The ugly scenes at Kennedy Point this week didn’t happen by accident and they didn’t start in 2016 when the Kennedy Point marina was...
On our watch
We have been needing active, energetic, scientific work to regenerate the underwater ecology of the Hauraki Gulf for decades and the Matiatia to Hakaimango...
Where have all the fish gone? We ate them
The great and the good of conservation administration and politics gathered at the Tamaki Yacht Club on Tuesday morning, the sun coming up in...
Hard work doesn’t cut it
The over-stuffed bed was fully 350 cm deep, an opulent white damask sandwich of coils, springs, toppers and, in a lingering camera shot, what...
Cost recovery as a blood sport
By 2007, Auckland City – to which we had been joined nearly 20 years earlier – was taking $15 million in rates and direct...
The world as a millipede inching forward…
I read Indian author and global activist Arundhati Roy’s first novel, The God of Small Things, in the excellent company of our ultra-casual island...
City of Sails
In the last few moments as the outcome of the 2021 America’s Cup challenge become an inevitability, watching a last camera pan of this...
Black hole of secrecy spreads
Local government’s startling rise in confidential workshops hit headlines last month when a Rotorua businessman asked the Ombudsman’s office to arbitrate over Rotorua Lakes...
Beware unpredicted surges and currents
I was temporarily home-schooling two of my grandsons when the move-to-higher-ground instructions circulated after last week’s seven and eight magnitude earthquakes off our northeastern...
Not on our watch
Public scrutiny of a proposal which would (among other worrying changes) increase the speed limit on Auckland’s inner harbour from 12 to 18 knots...
