August 6, 2009
There’s something deeply satisfying about having someone you don’t know take away your rubbish each week with such noisy enthusiasm. Alongside Radio New Zealand’s early morning bird calls, the roar of the recycler’s truck is a welcome weekly reminder that the sins and excesses of the past seven days are about to become memories. Wine [...]
May 3, 2009
A turtle swimming toward South America is carrying a piece of Hawke’s Bay on its back. Students in Dubai, Hong Kong, Australia, the Pacific Islands and New Zealand sit in comfortable classroom furniture designed by one of Hastings’ longest-established firms. And a small Hastings firm is involved in the collection and recycling of thousands of [...]
March 29, 2009
There is something disconcerting for the layperson seeing economic experts arguing over whether we’re receding into a depression, or just depressed about a recession. The mega-trillion transfusions of freshly printed money being pumped into their ailing economies by United States and Great Britain are starting to make Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe look like a model of [...]
February 2, 2009
Teachers should be top of the list whean compiling a list of people for a dinner party. Not because of their sparkling wit or even, sadly, for their general knowledge of politics, history or even fashion. Certainly not fashion. Male teachers tend to fall into two sartorial categories. Those who have kept manufacturers of walkshorts [...]
November 14, 2008
Amid the mundane evening TV clips, TV of walkabouts and scrums of journalists brandishing microphones, there were some moments in the election campaign that still linger. In 2005 it was footage of National leader Don Brash teetering along the gangplank to board the Earthrace boat. It became one of the most memorable moments of the [...]
Guest Writers
- Alan Dick
- Allan Baldock
- Andrew Newman
- Andy Walker
- Angela Hair
- Anna Lorck
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- Helen Clark
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- Iain Maxwell
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- Katherine Edmond
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- Kim Thorp
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- Kym Hamilton
- Lawrence Yule
- Liz Remmerswaal
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- Metiria Turei
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- Mike Mohi
- Morry Black
- Murray Douglas
- Neil Kirton
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- Nick Stewart
- Pat Magill
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- Peter Holley
- Phyllis Tichinin
- Rachel Cornwall
- Raewyn Peart
- Rick Barker
- Robert Burnside
- Robin Gwynn
- Rod Drury
- Roger Coleman
- Roy Dunningham
- Russel Norman
- Sandras Hazlehurst
- Scott Henderson
- Sean Bevin
- Shaun Lines
- Simon Nixon
- Sophie Stewart
- Stefan Olsen
- Stuart Nash
- Tim Gilbertson
- Tom Belford
- Wayne Bradshaw
- Andrew Reyngoud on DAM(N)! A half-billion dollar water storage scheme
- Margaret Donnelly on WATER. What's all the fuss about?
- Elizabeth Sisson on 'Dump Council' campaign
- Paul Bailey on Cows in Karamu Stream
- Rob Pharazyn on Cows in Karamu Stream
- John J Harrison on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Anne Parker on Let's get Council meetings online
- Stuart Nash on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Kylie Fowler on Let's get Council meetings online
- Paul Bailey on Let's get Council meetings online
- ‘Dump Council’ campaign
- Cows in Karamu Stream
- Questions for HB ‘regional study’ director
- Let’s get Council meetings online
- 5 mayors in HB … ‘Yeah right’ says Tui
- Crucial Environment Court hearing underway
- Regional Council warns on pollution standards
- Democracy in action?
- 1+1+1 = 3 hours
- Councils’ reorganization survey results
- Andrew Reyngoud on DAM(N)! A half-billion dollar water storage scheme
- Margaret Donnelly on WATER. What's all the fuss about?
- Elizabeth Sisson on 'Dump Council' campaign
- Paul Bailey on Cows in Karamu Stream
- Rob Pharazyn on Cows in Karamu Stream
- John J Harrison on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Anne Parker on Let's get Council meetings online
- Stuart Nash on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Kylie Fowler on Let's get Council meetings online
- Paul Bailey on Let's get Council meetings online
- ‘Dump Council’ campaign
- Cows in Karamu Stream
- Questions for HB ‘regional study’ director
- Let’s get Council meetings online
- 5 mayors in HB … ‘Yeah right’ says Tui
- Crucial Environment Court hearing underway
- Regional Council warns on pollution standards
- Democracy in action?
- 1+1+1 = 3 hours
- Councils’ reorganization survey results
