Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
We lost it
So how did we get to be on the UN’s mat for a shameful lack of housing for our citizens and the wiping out...
Beyond our ken
Only now, in the throes of this fourth Covid lockdown in 18 months, am I coming to grips with my somewhat tangled relationship with...
A bully-nouveau vintage year for despots and tyrants
If our earlier level 4 lockdowns felt eerie, with the lucky of us almost sleepwalking into domestic housewifery, nature walks and having our children...
Clearing the decks
So, the planet has blown the whistle and it’s game on. We either pull ourselves together and get points on the board or we...
Pavements of broken dreams
I’ve found my heart bleeding for small retailers and hospitality businesses pretty much every time I’ve gone to the inner city in the past...
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...
