True life – stranger than fiction 0

True life – stranger than fiction

True life can be sometimes stranger than fiction can’t it? Who would have dreamed that I would be back as the councillor for Waitematā & Gulf only a few months ago? Certainly not me....

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Fellow Aucklanders. It’s time to take a stand

Many ‘Ponsonby News’ readers like me will have found themselves affected, perhaps surprisingly so, by the news of the passing of the Queen. Affected too by nostalgic memories of her long reign playing on our...

Answering the call 0

Answering the call

Dear ‘Ponsonby News’ readers. I have agreed to come out of retirement to stand again for council. This in response to repeated requests over the last five months from concerned local residents who are...

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Mike Lee campaign launch speech

If anyone had said a year ago, 6 months ago, even 3 months ago that I would be standing here today, I would have said, “They’re crazy”. When I first started getting requests to come...

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Eulogy for John Elliott

“How much more easily is the leave-taker loved. For the flame burns more purely for those vanishing in the distance. Separation penetrates the departing one like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.”...