Talking about Climate in a Post COVID world.. Join Green Party Co-leader James Shaw at the Tuesday Club, for a conversation about all things climate, in the COVID-19 context. Seating is on a first-in, first-served basis - so come along early! Or you might need to watch the livestream outside … [Read more...]
Last Week
Last week’s session was a hum dinger. There was enthusiastic discussion on what exactly could shovel ready projects look like. There were a lot of ideas. Some on topic. Some not. We have the list but we are wanting you to come up with additional ones which we will work on together. This week I … [Read more...]
Proposed Government reforms potentially make our water assets vulnerable to privatisation
This week water policy moved back into the middle of public debates. At least it tried to. However, the National Party did its best to grab the public policy platform; but that was about “own goals”. While the media were focused on who had the biggest “Boag-ey”, the Government made a … [Read more...]
A summary of the last week in politics by an old mate of mine:
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...]
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