Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
The adaptation game
Aware as I am of many of the labyrinthine inner workings of the behemoth that is Auckland Council, I have, over the years, had...
Lessons lost
A beautiful longhaired dachshund, rendered in glossy technicolour, every curl a symphony, smiles enigmatically in competition with the neighbouring and equally glossy mahogany and...
Reclaiming our gumption
I spent last weekend glued to my laptop screen for a three-day international Zoom conference hosted out of Sydney, a lively mix of ethnicities,...
Tax and spend – or growth, growth, growth
Among the characters in Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 2016 television series Servant of the People, his country’s oligarchs are one of the most intriguing.
Their...
Open governance
By now, the Waiheke Local Board will have decided how it will deal with the Ombudsman’s ruling that local board workshops should be open,...
Heaven and hell
In the devastated years after my youngest daughter died and left us adrift in her loss, I found myself watching clouds a lot, vaguely...
The economics of being nice
Great art history may have passed me by if, during my barefoot teenage years in waterfront Devonport, the prestigious Smith and Caughey’s department store...
Houses built on sand
With Budget Week upon us and post-covid mortgage woes stretching out for working homeowners and renters until at least the end of next year,...
Robbing the future
Council Controlled Organisation Eke Panuku – the city’s property investment and divestment arm – was in new Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s sights for an...
Thrown to the wolves
ACT local government minister Simeon Brown may, as he said recently, “live and breathe Auckland” but (as always when you get to the ‘but’,...
