Monday, October 30, 2023

Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Gabrielle

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 What’s the difference between Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Gabrielle? The answer is: wind speed and air pressure. But apart from that, wha...
Friday, December 2, 2022

Water: Sense and Sensibility

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I write on 3 Water Reform - again unpublished by NZ Herald - as a former Auckland Councillor and Regional Councillor now Mangawhai resident....
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Hidden Cost of Three Water Reform

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After  12 years Auckland Councillor; Watercare Shareholder Representative; Three Water specialist; and Mangawhai Ratepayer Representative, a...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Why is Central Government Reducing Local Government and Democracy?

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 This is an OpEd piece sent to NZ Herald a couple of weeks ago. Unpublished. So here it is: While it is concerning that all of Auckland’s an...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

COVID kills DOLPHINS

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As a s.274 party I have just received a joint memorandum of the Environment Court recording that Panuku wishes to surrender resource consent...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Commercial Bay in a COVID context

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A few days before official opening it was all go in the covered laneway that runs between Lower Queen Street and Lower Albert Street, and ...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Auckland Water Shortages and Watercare

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It seems like yesterday to me, but 1994 was a while ago. Auckland had a much bigger water crisis than we're experiencing now, and it w...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

When does Tiny House need Building Permit?

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A two storey Tiny House was towed to this residential site in Mangawhai a couple of weeks ago, and since then the owner has been systemati...
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