Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
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...
Quarantine means quarantine
As a yachtie, I raised and lowered quarantine flags punctiliously in new ports for years and woe betide any of us on the ocean...
A place to bury differences
The America’s Cup is a strange beast.
As ghastly as the egos of some of the millionaire and billionaire syndicate bosses are as they wave...
High stakes: ‘We will require wisdom’
About the time a bellicose Donald Trump was lighting a bonfire under the mob that rioted into the inner sanctums of the US Capitol,...
