Is this photo between the leader of America’s Cup in New Zealand and the Prime Minister displaying the sort of behaviour which has caused so many of us to turn off the America’s Cup? When we have a crisis in housing, spending $100m on a group which is ungrateful for what they have been offered … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 15 June 2021
In a recent article in Stuff Andrea Vance lamented the closed shop which this Government has been with information. Here’s what she wrote early in the article: This year, I have made more complaints to the Ombudsman than in any previous year. So far, every one has been upheld. In my 20-year … [Read more...]
Last Week Philip Aldridge and Emerging Health Tech Hub
We had a wonderful address by that master of the understatement (it must be the water in the UK) Philip Aldridge about the Arts Centre. If the CCC does the right thing in the LTP decision making and allocates funding for the Arts Centre then the administration and Board can focus on a wonderful long … [Read more...]
This weeks Speaker Melanie Brooks on water
This week we return to considering water, and the water reforms being imposed on the country by Central Government. One of the areas that comes in for discussion are irrigation schemes. This week we have invited Melanie Brooks who is CE of MHV water a cooperative irrigation scheme. Melanie will … [Read more...]
The new Public Service Act demonstrates what is being expected of Government Departments
We must get Roger Dennis to speak to the Tuesday Club. Roger in a co-authored article with Wendy McGuinness and David Skilling, recently about how Government Departments have to report on long term trends to comply with the Public Service Act 2020. The article starts with this paragraph: The … [Read more...]
Climate Change Commission Report
The Climate Change Commission report became public this week. I waited for Bernard Hickey to write his piece about the report. He has a wonderful, clear, view of the future. Jessie Mulligan interviewed him on Friday afternoon. That interview is on the RNZ website. Bernard wrote: Politicians, … [Read more...]
CDHB becomes international
Isn’t it interesting that the Ministry of Health, and its Ministerial puppets, have destroyed the local DHB because they hated being shown to be wrong? In the UK there is an organisation called the “Kings Fund”. They were pretty impressed with the way the CDHB was being run some years ago. … [Read more...]
Another cycle story
On The Panel this week there was a man who was intending to protest about cycle lanes this weekend. He sounded like a lawyer, just applying his arguments to the earlobe test. He seemed to be obsessed with the fact that cyclists break the law all the time. One of panellists said that she was confused … [Read more...]
Karen Guilliland interview on midwifery
One of my big heroes is Karen Guilliland. We have been friends ever since we both ended up on the Area Health Board about 100 years ago. Karen has been a tireless advocate for midwifery for decades now and she and Helen Clark joined forces to get legislation passed to protect the role of Midwives in … [Read more...]
Box 112 Canterbury Heritage Awards
On Friday night Pam and I attended the annual Heritage Awards which were held at Christs College. It was a wonderful evening of great celebration of the heritage of Canterbury. The two trustees, Dame Anna Crighton and Jenny May had excelled themselves with their entries. Geoff Bone was rushing … [Read more...]
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