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Too expensive to fix?

September 7, 2022

It takes two traffic control trucks, two works truck, three drivers, one supervisor, two workers and 300 orange cones to fix a pot hole. They arrive on site, it’s morning tea time. Then they fill...

Auckland Council must stick to its core role and functions

September 7, 2022

A recent edition of the Times carried a front-page article about the intentions of two candidates for the Howick Ward who are promising “to tackle crime”. They laid out a plan that at several points...

God ‘n’ all that

August 31, 2022

Did he appear in a puff of smoke or arrive on a spaceship? Where is the science behind God’s creation? Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and has said, “religion and science cannot sit side...

Talk about misdirection

August 31, 2022

Stuff’s documentary, Fire and Fury, is something to behold. Its inquisitorial experts piously poking as pustuled conspiracy theorists threaten our besieged democracy with their pestilential heresies. This piece opines with such sanctimonious intellectual languor that it...