The elections with multiple messages
The 2025 local body elections are over with the Official Results finally released. First, I wish to thank all those people who voted for me, especially the dedicated team of volunteers led by Puneet...
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Kangaroos in the Hauraki Gulf
the remarkable story of Kawau Island’s wallabies Auckland Council is currently spending millions of dollars to eradicate wallabies from Kawau using 1080, guns, dogs and drones. It’s a divisive issue unfortunately and I frankly...
Local Body elections – the decision is now in your hands
Dear Waitematā & Gulf voters, A recent Auckland@15 survey revealed ‘low trust in council governance’ with only ‘18% of Aucklanders feeling they have influence over council decisions.’ Despite the council now taking over $3 billion in rates and...
Housing unaffortability & the consequences of the Left’s ongoing alignment neoliberal developer friendly deregulation policies
How do we solve the housing crisis and the problem of housing unaffordability The housing crisis, and the persistant failure by the political class to solve it, is in many ways the consequences of...
The Killing of Queens Street; the sad end of Smith & Caughey’s
The elitist ‘City Centre Master Plan’ is strangling the life out of the city centre The closing of Smith & Caughey’s with the loss of 98 jobs after 145 years as Auckland’s premier department...
Kiwi released on Waiheke – the return of our national bird
Kiwi releas On a brilliant sunny afternoon on Friday 16 May on Waiheke Island, a visionary conservation project, 15 years in the making, finally came to fruition. One of the Ponui kiwis about to...
War – Humanity hanging from a Cross of iron
This year was the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings which ANZAC Day was founded to commemorate. From that time onwards thousands of communities, in towns and cities across New Zealand and Australia, have...
St James theatre restoration finally gets the green light & Waitematā & Gulf boundary changes overturned by Local Government Commission
On 27 February Council’s Governing Body confirmed the formal agreement between the council, government and the owners to enable the restoration of St James Theatre to finally proceed. Mayor Wayne Brown inviting me to second...
The Waitemata & Gulf boundary changes –
making the case to the Local Government Commission Late last year, as part of a six-yearly representation review, the council’s ‘Joint Governance Working Party’ rejected the council officers’ Initial proposal which was to restore...
A new marine reserve for the Hauraki Gulf?
– my letter to PM Christopher Luxon As Aucklanders we know the Hauraki Gulf as one of New Zealand’s ‘jewels in the crown’. A scenic masterpiece, an unsurpassed recreational boating paradise and at the...