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Brian Rudman: Corporate castles foil a fine vision
So much for the much vaunted Waterfront Plan, writes Brian Rudman. First comes the ad hoc and unplanned decision to retain The Cloud on Queens Wharf.
So much for the much vaunted Waterfront Plan, writes Brian Rudman. First comes the ad hoc and unplanned decision to retain The Cloud on Queens Wharf.
Poor Murray McCully, writes Brian Rudman. Let's hope any other Valentine Day gifts he offered yesterday got a better reception than the one he couriered to the ingrates at Auckland Council.
With Prime Minister John Key's family background, you might have expected a little more compassion and understanding on the matter of refugees, writes Brian Rudman.
Imperilled are the jobs of hundreds of employees, and the financial future of numerous subcontractors, writes Brian Rudman. The latter are now at risk of being bankrupted for no fault of their own.
It's time for a dose of fatalism and some common sense when it comes to dealing with earthquake-prone buildings across New Zealand in the wake of the Christchurch quakes.
What a lost opportunity at a time when the council is on a crusade to convert Aucklanders to the joys of intensive housing, writes Brian Rudman.
In Australia, companion animal controls are much stronger than ours, writes Brian Rudman. It seems a good first step in dissuading cat - and dog - ownership.
"When was the last time, two years out from an election, an Opposition party policy pledge got a minister sacked?" asks Brian Rudman.
A word in defence of hippies. Over the weekend, chastened, born-again vaccinator Ian Williams fronted a publicity drive for immunisation, after his child almost died from tetanus.
The Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust has an odd way of trying to persuade Auckland Council that it's down to its last can of aviation fuel, writes Brian Rudman.
Bill English should look into a mirror next time he points the finger at Auckland Council for not doing enough to encourage affordable housing, writes Brian Rudman.
Holmes must have laughed wryly last week when reports of the fast-tracking of his investiture ceremony overshadowed news of TVNZ's latest desperate plans, writes Brian Rudman.
If you score the empty end of the Christmas cracker tomorrow, here's a substitute riddle to liven up the festivities.
Brian Rudman asks: "If a national convention centre is the vital piece of missing infrastructure to guarantee our future prosperity, why are they shackling it to the whims of a gambling empire?"
What every liveable city needs is a world-class concert hall, writes Brian Rudman, and the scaffolding has just gone up in the ASB Theatre at the Aotea Centre so the acoustic experts can create just that.
In a stand-off between Santa and a group of professional boyracers, you might have thought Auckland Council would have backed the jolly man, writes Brian Rudman.
Instead of conceding the 100% Pure campaign is based on a lie and should be retired, the PM has borrowed the old Muldoonist tactic of attacking the media, writes Brian Rudman.
What hope for the CBD in 30 years when Auckland is home to another million residents and still tunnel-less? Brian Rudman on Auckland transport.
What a strange code of moral values United States' spies live by, writes Brian Rudman, "The only people who will be able to make sense of this warped moral barometer is the USA's great enemy, al- Qaeda."
Wherever there are dedicated bus lanes, private taxi operators are clamouring for the right of access to these public transport corridors.
Whatever the shortfalls of the American electoral system, it has one basic element right. You have to have been born in the US to become its head of state, writes Brian Rudman.
Pike River is a Third World scandal we thought could never happen in a modern civilised country such as ours, writes Brian Rudman.
It's as though the market has failed to deliver this core tenet of National Party faith, and so the party does not know what to do, writes Brian Rudman.
The Auckland Council wants to save $3 million by cutting out the time-honoured practice of verge cutting, writes Brian Rudman.
Even God had to have a rest after six days of non-stop creating. After six decades, Auckland road builders should do the same, writes Brian Rudman.