New coastal park purchased by ARC 27 September 2010 – The Auckland Regional Council (ARC) has today announced the purchase of its final regional park, Te Muri Regional Park. Fittingly, it is the neighbour...
Very early in January whilst visiting a number of bird islets in the Hauraki Gulf with John McCallum, Ewen Cameron and Mark Bellingham, I was asked by John whether I could somehow assist him...
Mike Lee’s speech Thank you to each and everyone in this enormous crowd for coming along today. This is a remarkable day in the history of Onehunga. In Auckland in recent years Auckland has...
The ARC Transport & Urban Development made another small piece of rail history yesterday by formally backing a novel rail initiative – something we are calling the ‘Long Hauler’. This came out of an...
The ‘I Am The Last Tram’ exhibition at MOTAT, resurrects the memories of the 1950s – a critical time in the history of New Zealand. Though most of Auckland’s present day population was not...
ARC Group success underscores why Auckland’s publicly owned Port must not be privatised The ARC Group (ARC, ARH and ARTA) has had an extremely successful period chalking up major strategic achievements. On top of the political successes of...
A thirty-seven percent rent hike on the Auckland Regional Council’s Pitt Street offices from 1 February 2009 has been averted by Chairman Mike Lee’s insistence that the increase was too high to be justified....
While it is understandable the Transport Minister Steven Joyce wants to puncture some of the more overblown ‘rail everywhere’ rhetoric of Super Mayor hopefuls, he could give some thought to applying the same sort...
My private holiday in China – mainly because of the Queens Wharf crisis proved to be more of a working holiday than I had originally anticipated. In fact at one stage I seriously considered...
The decision by the Council on 6 July to confirm my provisional agreement with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust to protect Shed 10 and relocate Shed 11 brought on a major crisis between...
