I wish to join the previous speakers in congratulating the mayor and my fellow councillors on their successful elections. I must express my thanks to the people of Waitematā & Gulf and from across Auckland...
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....
Submission on ‘Revitalising the Gulf’ & proposed Hauraki Gulf Protection Bill Introduction The Friends of the Hauraki Gulf Inc (FoHG) is a Waiheke-based conservation organisation with members on Aotea / Great Barrier and Rakino islands...
19 October 2022 Wayne Brown Mayor-elect of Auckland. Level 27, 135 Albert Street Auckland Central Dear Mr Mayor, As discussed with Mr Matthews am writing in regard to Auckland Transport (AT). Specifically the Inner...
The following article is taken from my speech notes that I gave in introducing the recent mayoral candidates debate on transport organised by PTUA, CBT & NZ Transport 2050.. Transport and the way it...
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...
If this applied to the Rome of Cicero’s time, it’s even more apt for the Auckland of today. Strange times we live in. Most readers will know by now, I’ve been asked to stand...
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...
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...
“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.”...
