Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
Courage is contagious
So many people in the public life of the planet appear decidedly dull and disappointing, if not downright rogues and liars.
Decency, if it’s present,...
Culture of nastiness
I’ve been pretty concerned about my profession at this tenuous time in New Zealand history. Mainly because our daily news is so overlaid by...
When will we ever learn?
If I inventory the things I do with an admittedly small amount of discretionary personal time, I find it’s usually taken up with reading...
400 years down the wrong road
Descartes has a lot to answer for. If only for the fact that, four hundred years on, we are still taking the evidence of...
Robust debate essential
We live in an era of intense algorithmically driven polarisation, a choose-your-own-reality which makes consensus building extremely difficult, Spinoff columnist Duncan Greive said in...
A turn for the better
Although on notice from day one of the new local government term that a deep clean of the city’s operations and CCOs was imminent,...
Candle in the wind
This week, hard on the heels of local government elections which bid fair to disrupt the current order in Auckland’s local government administration, I...
Crisis and opportunity
In more than 50 years of council reporting in Auckland, most of it from this unique vantage point on Waiheke, I long ago stopped...
Building a mandate to be generous
By now, we are down to two days before postal voting closes in this year’s local government elections and, since the time-honoured ways have...
The heart of things
“People of loving service are rare in any walk of life. Leaders of loving service are still rarer. But in all cases those who...
