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Labour’s candidate for Kaikoura wants to license recreational fishers

Geoff SimmonsJune 29, 2014Politics

It isn’t often the Morgan Foundation honours our politicians, but then it isn’t often they are brave enough to take positions of true leadership. Labour’s candidate for Kaikoura, Janette Walker, has put forward the idea of licensing recreational fishers between … Read More

Shifting the Blame for Weight Gain

Geoff SimmonsMay 16, 2014Health

The food industry seems to love finding new ways to tell people that it is their fault they are overweight. According to new research from the British sugar lobby, obesity is due to people not knowing what their daily intake of … Read More

National wants to help middle-class first home buyers get hooked on housing

Geoff SimmonsMarch 31, 2014Politics

The property market is New Zealand’s drug of choice – and Auckland and Christchurch are the chief junkies at the moment. Today National implements its election promise to create a gateway drug for the middle class, by boosting the Kiwisaver … Read More

Who is Snapping up the Snapper?

Geoff SimmonsJuly 29, 2013Fisheries Management

The recent furore over snapper fishing in the Hauraki Gulf should serve as a wake-up call for recreational fishers. This is not a David v Goliath story about big business squashing the poor little fisher. It is a symptom of … Read More

Antarctic Tourism: Leave Nothing But (Frozen) Footprints

Geoff SimmonsApril 8, 2013Environment

Could hordes of tourists collectively achieve what mining companies have failed to do in Antarctica and stuff the place up? In 1991 the signatories to the Antarctic Treaty reached a landmark agreement to keep miners off the White Continent, but … Read More

Morgan foundation – Update on our activity in schools

Geoff SimmonsOctober 23, 2012Morgan Foundation

In February of this year Gareth and a crew of 50 Kiwis set sail south to raise awareness of Our Far South – the incredible area south of Stewart Island. New Zealand has stewardship over a massive area of land … Read More