Axel starts the day with The Bulletin
My weekday mornings start with me reading the news. I used to subscribe to a printed newspaper but for a variety of reasons, I cancelled that subscription some two or three years ago. After a while, a friend brought The Bulletin to my attention. It’s compiled by Alex Braae, who I mentioned in the … [Read more...]
This Week – Tuesday submission on Climate Change to CCC
This week Tony Moore from CCC is coming again to help us as we work on a submission for the Tuesday Club on the Draft Climate Change Strategy for the Christchurch City Council. We will not be recording this session. … [Read more...]
Last week – Rod Carr
Dr Rod Carr, the chairperson of the Climate Change Commission, is obviously a busy man right now, having to deal with 15,500 submissions. Despite that, he took the time last week to address the Tuesday Club. It was a hugely popular talk and those who arrived after 5:20 pm could not fit into the … [Read more...]
RIP DHBs
Last Wednesday, the government announced that they will disestablish the system of District Health Boards (DHBs) in its entirety... This follows on from a report that Heather Simpson prepared for the government in mid-2020; you can read her report (warning – 274 pages!) or a summary of the main … [Read more...]
Last Week – CCC on Climate Change and Representation Review
Last week we had a hummer of a session... Firstly, Tony Moore spoke about the CCC programme to address Global Warming. It was interesting to have Eric Pawson challenge the room to consider whether or not we as a City are being brave enough and embracing the Climate Commission’s goals. That led to … [Read more...]
This Week Rod Carr
This week Rod Carr will join us to talk about the work of the Climate Change Commission Dr Rod Carr thought he had retired. He quit full time work at the end of 2018, let his beard grow until he resembled a 19th century Russian novelist, ran a marathon in North Korea and planned to sit on a … [Read more...]
Let’s focus on Jaime Lerner, Mayor of Curitiba, and some things we can learn from him
Last week I said that I would write something about Jaime Lerner. Well Carl Davidson (who wanted to demonstrate that he reads the Tuesday Club notes) sent me the article below which was written about Jaime a few years ago. Here’s one of his quotes: If you want creativity, cut one zero from the … [Read more...]
An outstanding article analysing how the CDHB was undermined by Wellington bureaucracies
Ian Powell has written an extremely well researched article on CDHB. It is published by Victoria Universities “Democracy Project”. It summarises how CDHB has been completely done over by the Ministry of Health and its various sub agencies over the years. Our area has been a victim of incompetent … [Read more...]
Some of our Councillors are behaving in a way which turns off the public
I wrote last week about the comments made by Sam McDonald about how he feels the Councillors handle members making submissions when he said “we probably don’t listen to most of them”. I suspect that Sam was embarrassed by the coverage that this irresponsible comment received. He then reverted to a … [Read more...]
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