Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
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’,...
Political will
Party political manifestos are a mixed bag. Some parties have them. Some make it up as they go along. These days they’re likely to...
Compete or collaborate
Since Auckland’s amalgamation in 2010, the council has normalised bad financial behaviour, former Auckland mayor and Citizens and Ratepayers leader Christine Fletcher told...
Generative AI an ‘extinction-level’ threat to news media
The advent of generative AI looks “increasingly like an extinction-level event” for news publications, Stuff owner Sinead Boucher told a Parliamentary committee considering the...
Age of Aquarius
A more or less Elysian summer has slid past very rapidly, as time tends to do on the island, and the work of the...
Age of Aquarius
A more or less Elysian summer has slid past very rapidly, as time tends to do on the island, and the work of the...
A year for life in technicolour
The most enduring of our family’s midsummer traditions almost never happened.
Sailing back across the Pacific in the mid-1970s, we anchored in the remotest Marquesas...
Back as the future
The new government is consciously out to do serious harm to the lives of working people and families, the Green Party was saying alongside...
Horse-trading in unquiet times
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Very little, in this past election season, has made sense.
Slogans replaced policy and data but apparently were compelling enough to...
