One councillor said tall buildings contribute to global warming. Another said Auckland doesn’t have a housing crisis. Wayne Brown was already grumpy by the time the council’s latest housing debate rolled around. Auckland’s mayor had sat through a pair of ... See more
As an alternative to Plan Change 120 is chosen, the only debate expected at Auckland Council today is on how much housing to cut. Buried in the reports informing Auckland Council’s latest effort to create a new housing plan is a single-page preliminary ec... See more
Belt-tightening, as it turns out, is location-specific. It affects you if you’re in a state house. It doesn’t if you’re in the house of representatives. David Seymour delivered a full-throated defence of his decision to grant Pharmac board chair Paula Ben... See more
Keeping all things nuclear out of New Zealand may or may not make moral sense. But it almost certainly makes economic sense. Chris Penk barely had time to shut his mouth before everyone started yelling at him. The defence minister made an apparently off-h... See more
New Zealand just experienced some of its longest stretches of dry weather on record. For some reason they came in mid to late autumn. Many of us spent the summer moaning. In Wellington it was cold and windy. In Christchurch it was cold and wet. In Aucklan... See more
