Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
The gates of Mordor
I doubt if any of us will easily forget the images out of Ukraine these last three weeks. It may be, as one local...
And the homework for tonight is…
A fortnight ago, I had my yacht hauled out at Half Moon Bay, pattering down to Kennedy Point every day for a mini cruise across to...
And the reason is….?
Buried in Auckland Council’s 500 page-review of Auckland’s hard-won regional parks is a one-sentence proposal to put 21 regional and island regional parks amounting...
How not to do it
As we go into a local government election year and find ourselves mired in populism, personality slanging matches and much public angst about getting...
For lunatics and activists
It’s not easy to make sense of what’s going on in the world at present, whether it’s the night’s television news garnished with the...
High stakes in a time of great uncertainty
I said plaintively to one of my nearest and dearest recently that I just wanted someone to give me a list of what I...
One for the fish
It’s pretty hard to accept that if the current, Waiheke-led bid for a no-take marine reserve bounding Waiheke’s north western headlands fails, only a...
Playing a very small game
With a few outstanding exceptions, we are direly short of leadership at this point in time, not least in local government.
Leaders – great communicators,...
The Reckoning
This week, with the gentle November sun lancing down on a calm ocean around Waiheke, this may well be the most beautiful place on...
Our life support system at stake
“There are no prizes just for showing up,” international human rights lawyer Kavita Naidu, a Pacific delegate to the COP26 conference, said on the...
