Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
Rubber hitting the road
This time three years ago, we were on our hind legs about the island’s ferry monopolies, the Kennedy Point development was hardly being welcomed...
Bread and circuses
City elections 2022 started with histrionics over a waterfront stadium, now hopefully abated with the withdrawal of Leo Malloy as a mayoral candidate.
Out of...
Ground-hog decades
Rates bills are flopping into island letterboxes this week and, given the current Mayor’s unshakeable and monotonously-repetitive belief that Covid holes have to be...
Mayor slaps down motion to save reserves
A notice of motion to save a reserve in the Pakuranga electorate of Sunnyhills has been lost despite strong opposition from local residents and...
Profligate city
A healthy undercurrent of demand for policy and people rather than populism and histrionics is beginning to brew in the leadup to this year’s mayoralty...
Hygge – the art of living cosily
A few years ago, our young Danish journalist intern Emma-Rose Haas didn’t so much teach the Gulf News team the meaning of hygge as...
Only you can do it
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has,” said...
Investing and divesting
We’re at the point in the local government electoral cycle where a lot of stuff comes pouring through from Auckland Council before the reset...
Parallel realities
“I had the feeling I was inside a parallel reality, that I was dreaming,” Olena Zelenska has said of the morning of January 24...
Reclaiming the idyll
On Saturday afternoon of the long holiday weekend, I was ambling along the Esplanade road from Blackpool to Surfdale in the amiable communion that...
