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.”...
If you thought what Auckland Council is doing at Western Springs, and at Dove-Myer Robinson Park with the national Erebus memorial, was pretty bad, what’s been planned for our regional parks and the Hauraki...
Dawn service address at the Waiheke War Memorial. Mike Lee. We gather here and all across New Zealand on this ANZAC Day morning – as our parents did, and their parents before them, to...
The courageous battle by Ponsonby wine merchant Puneet Dhall and his passionate supporters to save the waterfront heritage tramway deserves our admiration and thanks. The Wynyard Quarter tramway operating as Dockline Trams was an...
Today we gather once again to remember the sacrifices of those who served & those who gave their lives for New Zealand, principally in the great world conflicts of the 20th century. The last time...
