Mike Williams was Labour Party President, and I have had a lot to do with him over the years. Mike and I have a deep love of politics. We both have a heap of friends in different parties. We share with them the joy of debating ideas, and often agreeing to disagree. Then having a drink to celebrate … [Read more...]
Conventional economics has let us down:
Remember wherever you worked economists had injected the word “efficiency” into our economic landscape? Efficiency implied that we could not produce goods as cheaply as China and so we had to close down our factories. The discussion rarely mentioned the reason why China was cheaper was because we … [Read more...]
I’m boycotting the wines from a Company whose owner contributed $400K to Trumps campaign
A Company whose owner, Bill Foley, contributed nearly $400K to Trumps campaign, owns a reasonable number of wineries in this country. I will now cease drinking any of these wines. I will have to carry this list of wines to New World each time I buy wine. I cannot support a company which produces … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 14 July 2020
Last week remember I put a quote in and a friend responded saying the whole quote was a beauty. Please note it was written in the 1920’s so excuse the gender bias. So here it is: "The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally … [Read more...]
Garry’s thoughts 7 July 2020
It has been interesting to listen to the change in tone of the voice of our son, Tim, who works as a district palliative care nurse in Melbourne. He’s not far away from us physically. Increasingly he’s a long way away from how we live. Fear has re-entered Melbournite’s minds. In that City one … [Read more...]
Last Week with Helen Marieskind
I sat last week soaking up the talk by Helen Marieskind, a daughter of Christchurch, who has lived mostly in USA for her adult life. Her views of the Pacific and her sharing her observations of USA and its political scene were really absorbing. The discussion was lively from the floor, and really … [Read more...]
This Week – let’s talk about Leadership
This week Rosemary and I decided that we are going to set in place what we think the Tuesday Club needs to be focusing on over the next few weeks. It’s time we thought about how we can encourage leadership from the streets. How we engage younger members of the community into participation. What … [Read more...]
Otautahi Community Housing Trust new construction of units:
It was great to read this article in the Press about the opening of new units by Otautahi Community Housing Trust on Friday https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/residential/122023384/whats-a-new-social-housing-unit-really-like-in-2020. I have a conflict of interest on this Trust, as my … [Read more...]
Our District Health Board is under attack from the Ministry of Health:
In the Press this week this article raised my interest https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/122017066/dhb-overspends-now-a-feature-of-the-system--auditorgeneral In the past week the Auditor General has written a paper on the funding deficits of the District Health Boards. In this report the … [Read more...]
Otakaro Ltd has contracted a company in this city which has not performed elsewhere:
The Company is CPB. It is interesting to consider two projects which are being constructed by CPB in this City. The Convention Centre is being constructed by them at present. The story on the streets is that this project has now blown out by a further $50m. That makes its cost $550m. I heard … [Read more...]
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