Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
Parallel realities
“I had the feeling I was inside a parallel reality, that I was dreaming,” Olena Zelenska has said of the morning of January 24...
Reclaiming the idyll
On Saturday afternoon of the long holiday weekend, I was ambling along the Esplanade road from Blackpool to Surfdale in the amiable communion that...
Monopoly games
There was a jaunty little missive in a grocery aisle recently, telling me that the pack of cut-price bacon (which I wasn’t about to...
By any measure
This is a critical year in the history of New Zealand Inc. Will we pull ourselves out of the market-led ills of inflation, inequality...
Roads unfit for purpose
The moment news of the recent shocking accident at Onetangi hit social media, amplifications, vilifications and distortions began. The victim was a child who...
Cheap talk costs lives
If we don’t start taking care of families – all of them, everywhere like, now – we won’t have a civilisation.
National news on TV1...
Priceless or a handy few billion bucks
This week, the Waiheke Local Board voted to investigate a proposal to shift our Whakanewha Regional Park into the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. (See story...
A servant of the people
Monday’s dawn service, the 106th annual commemoration of the brutal assault on Chunuk Bair, left me in tears. Partly for my own dead, including two parents...
Too close to call
So here we are, Easter 2022, perhaps the strangest year yet.
Nearly eight billion people, all but a tiny fraction of us struggling to find...
Starving in a land of plenty
I think it’s struck most of us on the island that things are cracking up, if not immediately for ourselves, for a lot of...
