Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
Compete or collaborate
Since Auckland’s amalgamation in 2010, the council has normalised bad financial behaviour, former Auckland mayor and Citizens and Ratepayers leader Christine Fletcher told...
Generative AI an ‘extinction-level’ threat to news media
The advent of generative AI looks “increasingly like an extinction-level event” for news publications, Stuff owner Sinead Boucher told a Parliamentary committee considering the...
Age of Aquarius
A more or less Elysian summer has slid past very rapidly, as time tends to do on the island, and the work of the...
Age of Aquarius
A more or less Elysian summer has slid past very rapidly, as time tends to do on the island, and the work of the...
A year for life in technicolour
The most enduring of our family’s midsummer traditions almost never happened.
Sailing back across the Pacific in the mid-1970s, we anchored in the remotest Marquesas...
Back as the future
The new government is consciously out to do serious harm to the lives of working people and families, the Green Party was saying alongside...
Horse-trading in unquiet times
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Very little, in this past election season, has made sense.
Slogans replaced policy and data but apparently were compelling enough to...
We should know better
When the furore broke around Waka Kotahi’s post-election bombshell announcement that Auckland ferry operator Fullers360 will not have its fares regulated on the Waiheke route, the ferry...
A meditation in uncertainty
How peaceful it’s been this last three weeks – and I’m not talking about the appalled grief of last weekend’s Rugby World Cup final....
Whose ‘coalition of chaos’ would that be?
This year’s election has been leaving me nauseous. We’ve been divided for conquer. Fed polls until they are coming out of our ears and...