It was inspiring last week to have June and Ian Burney speak to us about their educational programme aimed at very young children. Their creation of Toch a future creature which children can relate to enables kids to see what could happen in the future if they, and their families, don’t change what … [Read more...]
Interim report of the Local Government review
A commission was appointed, after 3 Waters and Resource Management reforms had been announced, to review local government. It’s a cart before the horse exercise but there are good people on the review panel. The members appointed for two years are: Jim Palmer (chair), Penny Hulse, Gael … [Read more...]
Taking Guyan Espiner off the air has allowed him to become an even better journalist
Recently Guyan Espiner, a son of our City, produced a programme which discussed the allocation of Crown Prosecutor positions around New Zealand. Here’s what he wrote: Crown Law records, released to RNZ under the Official Information Act, show that in many centres the Crown Warrant has been with … [Read more...]
Local Government New Zealand have been hopeless on 3 Waters
I spent years on LGNZ. It was often depressing how compliant the executive was with the government. It was full of good people who were often not up to standing up to any government. A very small bunch of us wanted local government to be bolshie and … [Read more...]
Finally, one of the local Labour MP’s, Duncan Webb, responds regarding 3 Waters reforms
Duncan Webb this week replied to one of the Tuesday Club attendees and below are his comments and between each of the comments there are responses on whether he is correct, or not. His comments are in blue. The responses in red. Before I start I must, again, question where … [Read more...]
The futility of the DHB’s reforms, an article by Ian Powell
Last April Minister of Health made a major health system announcement comprising three central features to take effect in July next year. It confirmed the establishment of the Maori Health Authority as proposed by the Heather Simpson convened review of the health and disability system but with … [Read more...]
I still hate cats and so do others
I had a reply to my missive on cats last week by Marcus who wrote: As to the cat issue- it is long overdue to have owners take responsibility or suffer the consequences. Living in Little River at the old bird sanctuary, we have an obligation to protect the bird life - and … [Read more...]
Debate over housing and golf links…
This discussion also continued. This time it was responding to Chris Kissling’s comments about the need for us to build on the hills surrounding Lyttleton Harbour. Chris received this response Chris, the residents of the northern slopes of the harbour are quite happy with a low population … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 19 Oct 2021
Pam Ayres on Covid I’m normally a social girl - I love to meet my mates But lately with the virus here we can’t go out the gates. You see, we are the ‘oldies’ now - We need to stay inside If they haven’t seen us for a while - They’ll think we’ve upped and died. They’ll never know the … [Read more...]
This week’s speakers: June and Ian Burney
Their talk is titled “A new approach to tackling the problem of climate change" Christchurch husband and wife team June and Ian Burney have developed a unique new approach to tackle climate change and to teach this to our children. It is based on the mantra that it's only by investing in the … [Read more...]
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