The Golden Mile looks like total shit, which is uniquely offensive to New Zealand’s ancestral (English) instinct for orderly and tidy town square spaces. Unfortunately, equally offensive to our ancestral instincts is spending any money whatsoever in order to improve any given situation
My observation of Labour and National government frustrations with the public service is that, contrary to what the last Labour government believed, the public service didn’t resist their agenda. Instead the PS institutional inertia, sclerosis, meant they simply didn’t have the know how to do it
AKL: held together by the Axis of Asian
christchurch is somewhere in between wellington and auckland, and hamilton and tauranga are smaller version of auckland
The speeding ticket story has arrived in just in time to arrest the Green Party’s decline in the polls