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...]
Supercharging Urban Development in Ōtautahi/Christchurch:
We have received notification of the latest in the excellent series which Jessica Halliday and her team at Te Pūtahi’s Occasional Series have been running. It’s free and we recommend your attendance. Monday 2 Nov from 6-7.30pmTo be held at Tūranga or Online (Zoom)Book at Humanitix. Can we … [Read more...]
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum in the USA
The Editors: From the New England Journal of Medicine which has not taken sides in a Presidential election in 208 years. Now it has. The journal has many editors and they all signed it: Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good … [Read more...]
How Government Departments treat pioneers:
I have always felt sorry for people who start things and excel at whatever they started. They are often not honoured for their courage and other, more timorous, types take their idea and sanitize what they have promoted. The pioneers often head off disillusioned and broken. The really strong … [Read more...]
We must focus on what will be our new economy and how we can support it:
Here’s another contribution from Steven Moe. This guy doesn’t seem to sleep. Steven wrote an article for Spinoff recently where he focused on a growing sub-set of business in Christchurch. Christchurch now has a thriving start up ecosystem. Co-working spaces are packed with entrepreneurs, as is … [Read more...]
How the CDHB Board behaved this week and suggested solutions to our current crisis:
If I could put myself in the position of the Board of the CDHB they must be wondering how the hell they can get out of their self-inflicted hole. In their worst nightmares they would not be expecting to be staring into a massive hole of having to replace 7 of the 11 of their senior management … [Read more...]
Better Futures Forum
Rosemary writes: A forum of people unified by a single objective: to seize this opportunity to transform New Zealand. Better Futures Forum sprung out of the Covid crisis. A crisis that will be one of many if we do not fundamentally change the way we live or use the finite resources on this … [Read more...]
Garry writes 25 August 2020
This week I haven’t been able to think about much other than the disaster which is occurring at the CDHB. Having a chance to listen to Sir John Hansen on Tuesday night didn’t settle my concerns. Time and again I turned my mind to what a friend wrote to me some weeks ago that we are dealing with … [Read more...]
Last Week Sir John Hansen
Last week we had Sir John Hansen, current Chair of the Canterbury District Health Board. Sir John gave a relatively short talk and then answered questions from those attending and those who had submitted questions earlier. It was one of the few times which Sir John has spoken publicly, and we were … [Read more...]
Elections GE2020
This article deserves closer examination: Despite Judith Collins’ claim, the caretaker convention – the understanding that in certain circumstances significant governing decisions should have a parliamentary majority, or be consulted on by the opposition – does not apply in the pre-election … [Read more...]
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