Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
Herding post-election pachyderms
There were a few elephants in the room when Waiheke’s new local board members were sworn in at a ceremony at the Ostend War...
Those vanished voters
There was something ponderous and rather disturbing about the pre-election charm offensive by Auckland Council when it exhorted citizens to vote in this month’s...
Democracy is messy but needs to be fought for
By midday on Saturday, voting will have closed and a high-stakes term in local governance will be set in place.
Voting papers must now have...
Pilot softening historic tensions
Council staff have stepped up in the first 18 months of a pilot project to trial greater devolvement of decision-making to the Waiheke Local...
Going postal
More than a few people gathered to gape in dismay on Monday after finding Oneroa’s PostShop had exited the building it has shared with...
Twice bitten, thrice shy
I was reminded of a particular Gulf News cover in 2002 when John Banks, former Auckland mayor, businessman, MP for both National and the...
Rust never sleeps
Waiheke will never be the same if Auckland Council goes ahead to extend its isthmus Unitary Planning regime to include Waiheke, veteran Auckland councillor...
We need a reset of priorities
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff, responding to an incendiary public meeting on Waiheke’s unregulated and very expensive ferry services earlier this month, told Gulf News...
Buteman is dead, long live Buteman
The Scottish island of Bute’s quintessential community newspaper The Buteman could claim it had provided its readers with ‘trusted news since 1854’. That was...
We need a sturdy defence against these perils of growth
In the days when everyone knew what the eight-pointed Maltese Cross of the hospitaler Knights of St John’s looked like, there was a tired...
