Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
We should know better
When the furore broke around Waka Kotahi’s post-election bombshell announcement that Auckland ferry operator Fullers360 will not have its fares regulated on the Waiheke route, the ferry...
A meditation in uncertainty
How peaceful it’s been this last three weeks – and I’m not talking about the appalled grief of last weekend’s Rugby World Cup final....
Whose ‘coalition of chaos’ would that be?
This year’s election has been leaving me nauseous. We’ve been divided for conquer. Fed polls until they are coming out of our ears and...
The intelligent ingredient is a fairer society
Earth’s orbiting International Space Station is about the same size as a six-bedroom house, the Guardian said in a mind-shaping feature earlier this month....
Important fun
I found myself handing out the honours for Waiheke’s fastest business-house trolley at the Great Gulf News Trolley Derby last Sunday, and was suddenly aware...
Enough already
A year and more into October’s tawdry election lead-up, it’s hard to stomach the daily cacophony of polls and hypocritical bickering that’s passing for...
Bread and circuses
Viewing this last week as a snapshot in time, we now seem near-fatally disconnected from common sense history – human kindness being an early...
Is there no decorum?
Auckland Council officials have prevailed. We’ve had the noise and fury of our profligate city council flailing round to produce a balanced financial budget...
No wonder we are hurting
After nearly six years and a spectacular Labour win three years ago, there is something horribly wrong with our current political discourse. The attack...
The great unease
It doesn’t pay to speculate on the future of the human race at this point in history. The knife-balance future is unknowable and it’s...
