Cyclone Gabrielle has certainly hit the country with force. I know that many of you were affected directly, locally with fallen trees, power outages and slips or indirectly having friends or family displaced elsewhere in…
Cyclone Gabrielle has certainly hit the country with force. I know that many of you were affected directly, locally with fallen trees, power outages and slips or indirectly having friends or family displaced elsewhere in…
As I did some background reading before writing a column on the subject of capital gains taxes (CGT) I came across two pieces of information that surprised me. First, the way the political debate on…
The News has reported in recent weeks on the growth of kiwifruit orchards in Waipā – and how their arrival has in some cases defied bylaws and left neighbours crying foul. In response to our…
I hope that everyone has managed to stay safe and well during the cyclone. This week I have another good news story to share, as it’s also a chance to say thank you to our…
The rain deluge in Auckland caused me to have several conversations with a friend who is a leader among residents of a North Shore retirement village. She described the carnage and associated horror of two…
I don’t watch Gilmore Girls. Never have. You probably don’t even know what I’m talking about. It’s a fairly pithy American TV show from the early 2000s which follows the lives and loves of a…
This week I have some good news stories to share. The first started with a simple traffic stop. Some people think that traffic policing has a narrow focus, but this is not the case. All…
New Zealand’s annual inflation rate for 2022 was announced last week. It was 7.2 per cent, the same as it had been for the year to September, 2022. The Reserve Bank had forecast 7.5 per…
Daft: A generous way to describe some of the less than rational viewpoints adopted by some of the less than rational members of our wonderfully diverse global society. Only today, I read somewhere on social…
Hello all, is it too late now to say Happy New Year? I am back at the station this week after a mixed January of annual leave, training and working different operations. I went to…
