The Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown announced sweeping changes to the unitary plan for Auckland, made in response to widespread opposition to the plan to build high density high-rise apartments in many areas of Auckland. “We have taken on board the reasonable objections of those who say that the proposed high density housing will be [...]
So the traffic cops are extending their 4km-only tolerance limit until the end of the month and are looking at making it permanent. This has a feeling of pre-concieved inevitability about it. Although Acting Superintendent Rob Morgan assures us that the permanent adoption “will really be an evidence-based decision”, we all know that this is complete [...]
It comes as no real surprise that the National government’s review of the council-based business case for a CBD rail loop has found that the council review vastly overstated the benefits. Rail enthusiasts will now all cast aspertions on this report, saying how the review has been loaded with anti-rail bias. More-or-less the opposite of [...]
This from the Herald website: It is clear from the headline that the editorial slant is towards a levy, rather than increased borrowing. Unfortunately for the Herald, their own online poll has exactly the opposite result. In all fairness, this is an online poll and will not be terribly reliable. In addition, there will likely [...]
Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. Educational spam always feels to me like it has an additional agenda besides increasing a newspapers sales. Certainly, the left wing blogs have all taken to calling Anne Tolley out for this one: Top school’s revolt against NCEA One [...]
Congratulations to Helen Kelly, Actor’s Equity and MEAA for managing to seriously damage the NZ film industry and scare away the financiers of the Hobbit with their ham-fisted, bully-boy union tactics. Nicely done. I particularly like the way you ignored the “collective” part of collective bargaining by failing to consult your members and the “bargaining” [...]
Any comment by Len Brown on the use of taxpayer money has to be treated with a great deal of reserve. However, you would have thought that the man could perform some elementary arithmetic when it came to rates. Instead, Mr. Brown accuses John Banks of keeping rates down by supplementing Auckland City’s income with [...]
That, apparently, was the defense that was put forward by the killer of Navtej Singh, the man shot by thugs in his liquor store and left to bleed to death. Anitelea Chan-Kee, the man behind the gun that ended Navtej Singh’s life claims that the killing was “accidental” because he “did not realise the gun was [...]
The Auckland DHB say that Labtests has improved significantly over the past few months. The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia had come in to assess areas of concern, the health board itself had instigated intensive monitoring and there had been a “radical reduction” in complaints about the service, both from the public and the [...]
I have recently gone back into general practice full-time. One thing that seems very clear to me is that it has become increasingly difficult to refer people into the hospital system unless they are critically ill. My last stint as a GP was in mid-2007, but, at that time, it seemed reasonably easy to refer [...]
