A good mate of mine text me the other day. He was commenting on David Meates being pushed out of CDHB. His comment was “here is a great example of ethics being pushed aside by economics”. To this I would add, bad economics. How long, South Island New Zealand, will we remain at the mercy of … [Read more...]
Last Week Roger Sutton on Tiwai Point
I have to confess I only partially succeeded when I got everybody on Zoom last week. Rosemary was away and we were relying on the technologically challenged person, me. We were all able to talk to each other in the wonderful session led by Roger Sutton. However, despite pushing the button … [Read more...]
This Week CDHB…
I am working to get one, maybe two speakers about the CDHB. We will analyse what has happened to the senior management team and we will work out what we can do to challenge the dreadful dumping of a magnificent public servant. This area needs to stand up and be counted on how we are treated down … [Read more...]
Rob Davidson:
The wonderful husband, and best mate, of our Mayor Lianne Dalziel, died of cancer on Friday. Rob died peacefully in his sleep after having attentively said goodbye to all of those close to him. Rob was a working-class boy who went from school to work and at 17 started with the NZ Railways. He … [Read more...]
People are thinking hard about the CDHB:
I have had numerous conversations about the CDHB over the past disastrous week. The week when brilliant leadership was sent up the road. Last night I received these thoughts from Bruce White about a subsection of the complex issue of public health: I don’t know much about the inner workings of … [Read more...]
Green Streets:
In previous Tuesday Club notes I have written about a street down the road from our place which was an experiment designed by a person who is now a Regional Councillor, Grant Edge. The street has no gutters and the road is quite narrow. The whole community planted the trees and they are looking … [Read more...]
John Key is wrong about wealthy overseas investors being able to buy NZ property:
It’s understandable that the former PM was campaigning for his old Party when he spoke in Auckland last week. However, when he was also attempting to prop up property values so that the Bank that he chairs, ANZ, doesn’t have its investment portfolio collapse on them. His argument of wealthy … [Read more...]
Mainfreight sends a message to Local Government about long term planning:
One of my late mates, who I really miss, is Neil Graham one of the two founders of Mainfreight. Neil, whenever he met somebody and when asked what he did, always replied that he was a truck driver. He was a guy who started working for himself when he was 17, and never worked for anybody else. Not … [Read more...]
75 years ago today the second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki:
I attended a memorial ceremony at the Peace Bell in Hagley Park this morning. There were more people attending than there has been for years. It was led by young people and was really moving. At one stage I was international vice-President of Mayors for Peace. The Mayor of Nagasaki, Mayor Ito, … [Read more...]
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