High Noon for helipads
Helipads and their ear-shattering impacts on neighbours have become highly controversial in recent years, especially so in this ward. The issue was brought to a head once agaIn by the now rather notorious proposed...
Author: Mike Lee
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...
Letter around Auckland Council decision to evict speedway from Western Springs Stadium raises complaint to Serious Fraud Office.
Advertise with NZME. Home / New Zealand Letter raises complaint to Serious Fraud Office on moving speedway from Western Springs By Bernard Orsman Auckland Reporter·NZ Herald· 2 Feb, 2025 05:00 AM5 mins to read NOW PLAYING • Allegedly fraudulent...
The gentrification of Western Springs Stadium -Council evicts speedway – Ponsonby Rugby Club next?
ALL Black rugby great, Sir Bryan (B.G.) Williams with the future of Ponsonby Rugby Club, members of the under 6 team. At left coach Steve Livesay. Those readers who follow local government reasonably closely...
Auckland Transport and the People’s Wharf
the relentless empire and its ambitions for Queens Wharf Many Aucklanders would have thought ‘Yes!! on hearing Mayor Wayne Brown’s call for the breakup of Auckland Transport. But one shouldn’t get one’s hopes up...