Monetary policy in New Zealand is at an interesting crossroads. The June quarter Cost Price Index (CPI) data on the surface looked positive. Overall, the CPI rose by 3.3 per cent in the year to…
Monetary policy in New Zealand is at an interesting crossroads. The June quarter Cost Price Index (CPI) data on the surface looked positive. Overall, the CPI rose by 3.3 per cent in the year to…
It has been another busy week in Cambridge and a foggy one. Frustratingly, we continue to have drivers not using their headlights in the fog, which is madness. If your headlights are set to auto,…
There is something about time travel which has always fascinated me and watching the St Peter’s School student-led movie The Case fed that interest. The 52-minute murder mystery film opens Friday at the school’s Thornton…
Much of my work in volcanology is around the intersection of communities and volcanoes. I have been spending a couple of weeks here in Tenerife leading a group of university students through an exercise that…
Initially I was going to write about anthems – or to be more focussed, anthems declared by countries as national. National anthems are written and ‘performed’ as either (Collins) ‘rousing or uplifting songs identified with…
Recently I spoke at a gathering on the topic of ‘offences’. The feedback suggested this was a very relatable issue for many. Being human and just interacting normally with others in the course of life,…
As the Cambridge Community Board reaches the halfway point of our three-year term, we are proud of the progress we have made in diligently advocating for our residents. The board’s role is to be the…
Greetings, I hope the start to term three is going well. I know you will be paying extra attention on the roads now that our school aged pedestrians and cyclists are increasingly around as they…
Swimming in the warm ocean, I was looking across large and very busy tourist facilities on the southern flanks of Tenerife. The swimmers around me were laughing and posing for photos, I was looking above…
The discharge of contaminants to waterways is something that Waikato Regional Council (WRC) is charged with monitoring and preventing. Recently, a prominent Waikato farming company was fined for discharging “a large volume of dairy effluent…
