A Brit, a Jamaican, and a Kiwi sit in a kitchen on the side of a volcanic island talking about what would happen to us if the volcano above erupted… We have been struggling through…
A Brit, a Jamaican, and a Kiwi sit in a kitchen on the side of a volcanic island talking about what would happen to us if the volcano above erupted… We have been struggling through…
On July 12 the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee agreed to leave the Official Cash Rate unchanged at 5.5 per cent. For the second time in a row, I think they got their decision right….
Following legislation that was passed by the Government in 2020, the Freshwater Farm Plan regulations were published in June requiring pastoral or arable land use of more than 20ha and/or horticultural land of more than…
In early July, as America’s ‘big birthday’ drew close, I‘d noticed the volume of messaging along the lines of ‘freedom’ had been intense! Maybe the ‘freedom’ focus was just on my radar, but it certainly…
Hamilton Road-Cambridge Road – is it time to re-name the section from Vogel Street to the expressway as Hamilton Road? We already have Cambridge Road going from Leamington to Te Awamutu and there’s Cambridge Road…
This week I want to highlight work being done with Violence Free Waipā and Cambridge Community House around elder abuse. You may have seen a television campaign recently aimed at educating people about elder abuse….
Recently we had a superb catch around the importation and supply of class A drugs, following a search warrant execution involving specialist squads. It was a good example of the benefits that come from an…
In the Cambridge cafe aptly for years known as Deli on the Corner, the interior comes to a sharp and narrow pointed extremity. It looks out at the nearby Duke Street roundabout and what used…
A wailing siren caught my attention while driving in a busy city this week. You know how it goes – at first, it’s hard to determine what it is (fire, police, ambulance) or where it’s…
University on the up In my column below, I wrote that Waikato University’s ranking of 250th in the QR global rankings of universities placed it sixth amongst New Zealand’s eight universities. That was wrong. It…
