This week we will have Bree Loverich, from Screen Canterbury. Bree is a wonderful speaker and an enthusiast for film promotion. We have to get in behind this sector as it is job rich and able to bring vast resources to Greater Christchurch and the South Island. The film sector brings around $1b … [Read more...]
Last Week – Sam Johnson
Last week we had Sam Johnson, one of the founders of the Student Volunteer Army (SVA), and now its National coordinator. I thought I knew what Sam is involved in; but I sure didn’t. His story of how the SVA is promoting active volunteering in the schools in New Zealand was inspiring. Sam took us … [Read more...]
A relative, born in Germany, wrote this chilling article for the Tuesday Club:
I have a relative who was born in Germany, Peter Moses. He has lived in New Zealand for a couple of decades and works as an Immigration lawyer in Auckland. He wrote this for the Tuesday Club notes: Political parallels He was a right- wing politician with a difference. He claimed to be an … [Read more...]
Smash Palace rises again:
I would like to thank people for your support as we rebuilt Smash Palace. It has been a very trying period. Otakaro Ltd decided some years ago that they were going to build a laneway right through Smash Palace. That’s what the designers decided should happen. Fighting that took a couple of years. … [Read more...]
It’s important that we get in behind Aotea Water Action in the Courts:
This is the team who are challenging the water rights issue about bottling of water and exporting it to China. It is really important for us to put our hands in our pockets and help fund this important challenging of this environmentally crazy exercise putting water in plastic bottles, loading them … [Read more...]
The threat of Covid requires constant vigilance:
New Zealand stopped breathing when the latest Auckland community case was announced. The young person who was infected, and who was told to stay at home didn’t, and the rest is history. We must remain vigilant but we should also be grateful for all of the scientists who manage our response. We … [Read more...]
This sort of tribal nonsense is unacceptable in Christchurch:
The members of the Peoples Choice are proposing to remove the Chair of the Linwood Central Heathcote Community Board, Alexandra Davids. Why? I guess because she isn’t a member of their team. This is disgraceful stuff. It’s about numbers and being tribal. It’s not about her skill base. If they were … [Read more...]
CDHB series of articles:
Article from the UK on what the CDHB was when he visited in February: I was interested to read this article by a top UK health specialist. He visited the CDHB before the Board and MOH started to pull apart what we had, and what he recognised was working so well. Remember how the Crown Monitor and … [Read more...]
Engagement about Greater Christchurch 2050
We need your help to develop a new 30-year vision and plan for Greater Christchurch The Greater Christchurch Partnership is inviting local leaders, thinkers and influencers to a series of workshops to define our aspiration for Greater Christchurch in 2050 and identify the collective actions and … [Read more...]
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