Last week Cynthia Roberts gave an excellent presentation on the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust. This Trust has exceeded the hopes of those who established it and is supporting major environmental initiatives on Banks Peninsula. Reminder to support the $3million towards this trust in the CCC long … [Read more...]
This week’s speaker Andrew Turner
This week we have the Deputy Mayor and Chair of the Christchurch City Council Finance Committee, Andrew Turner. Andrew will speak about the Long-Term Plan which is out for submissions right now. Bring along your questions. Mine would start with why has an agency which has not performed, … [Read more...]
Toby Morris’ cartoon which demonstrates the “K” shaped economy we have
New Zealand is fortunate to have a superb cartoonist in Toby Morris. This week in the Spinoff they published Toby’s analysis of the economic “recovery” in cartoon. I found this illuminating and I hope you do as well. … [Read more...]
The Government’s proposed water reforms
This is a topic which we should all become informed on. Last week I wrote about my being really impressed with an interview by Nanaia Mahuta by Kathryn Ryan on RNZ. Unfortunately, I copied a link which ended at a dead end for people and a number of you wrote to me pointing it out. Thanks to … [Read more...]
Health issues – Fluoridation
Ian Powell has written a glowing article about how effective Dr Verrall has been already with moving the responsibility for fluoridation from Local Authorities to the Director general of Health. After looking closely at the CDHB debacle I now question the effectiveness of the DG of Health, Ashley … [Read more...]
Electric cars: a Global Warming issue being driven by capitalism
Everybody has a role to play with Global Warming. However I am concerned about capitalism driving the transport solutions to Global Warming. In the past week I have read about two vehicle makers pushing the “fast forward” button with electric vehicle manufacturing. First it was Ford and now … [Read more...]
Returning to the Ng building debate
The Press carried an excellent article on the shifting of the Ng building last week. In the article it was stated: Stadium architects Populous, a global engineering firm that has designed over 1300 stadiums, developed a baseline concept for Christchurch’s new stadium in 2019 as part of the … [Read more...]
Local representation review
Every few years Local Government is required to undertake a review of the number of people around the Council table. This is required by law. One Councillor, has advocated halving the number of Councillors. This demonstrated a complete lack of understanding about how Councillor fees are set. The … [Read more...]
The Wizard and Alice
Around 44 years ago Pam and I got married. We had to get married early in the morning as the Priest who was to marry us, Jim Consedine, had to go to a demonstration in Wellington. At the wedding function the Wizard and Alice were guests. I don’t think Alice was his fiancé then. The Wizard cast a … [Read more...]
Here’s a really bad example of exploitation of low paid workers by a social service agency
It is excellent when any Government passes legislation in support of low paid workers. However, what also needs to happen is the Government then needs to allocate additional funds to pay for these extra wages. I wonder if this happened with these low paid health workers. Consider this scenario. … [Read more...]
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