The article as it appeared in the Herald today (click for larger version). Yesterday I talked to Craig, a reporter from the Herald, who noticed a Libertarianz sign on Quay St (Well done, Auckland Libz!) with the “As Demanded by Helen Clark, 4 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden, Auckland” label. It was this label that he [...]

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Libertarianz spokesman Luke Howison congratulated Steve Crow today for his triumph over the fascism of the Auckland City Council. “Well done Steve! You have successfully taken on the closed-minded authoritarian bureaucrats of the Auckland City Council – and won!” “Only the most politically correct ‘liberals’ like Cathy “not-in-my-backyard” Casey and the most repressed conservatives like [...]

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Sailing is no name for it – flying is better. Out into the bay she skipped, boys yelling with delight on the uplifted outrigger, spray from the lee bow and steering oar riven into vapor by the speed blowing to leeward. “A Flying Proa” R. M. Munroe, The Rudder, June 1898 (found on Wikipedia) Last [...]

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Whitianga resident Steve Hart was ‘horrified‘ when, on his return from a trip to Australia, he was forced to drive through Manukau, where – gasp, shock horror – there was rubbish by the side of the motorway and graffiti on buildings. He laments: “For ourselves, as New Zealanders, we should probably hang our heads a [...]

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Phil and I enjoyed a mammoth holiday over the Christmas/New Year period, starting with seeing our family in Stratford, Taranaki for Christmas. That was pretty relaxing and featured heaps of great food, sunshine, building a dam and going swmming in the snow-melt river, learning to ride a motorbike and drive a car (for me) and [...]

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Luke and I are in town, staying near Upper Queen Street, tonight. Call 027 437 0308 if you want to meet up with us – we leave tomorrow morning for the third stage of our summer holiday.

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This is a serious question! There has been a recent proposal to turn Auckland – currently locally-governed by four city councils and several other entities – into a “super-region,” a “one stop governance shop.” And the plan has the PM’s support. While the plan was not received with much enthusiasm, I suspect that it is [...]

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