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The Government is currently looking at options for reducing child obesity. Over the weekend the Health Minister Jonathan Coleman again ruled out using taxes and regulation, claiming that a sugar tax in particular “wouldn’t work”. This is despite a major … Read More
You should never change your flag While change for change’s sake is not desirable as people get an affinity for the familiar and come to love their flag, it is ridiculous to assert that no matter what, changing the flag … Read More
If you’re scratching your head over the latest war of words between Andrew Little and John Key, you’re not the only one. Both have been talking about Maori sovereignty, and the implications of the Waitangi Tribunal’s decision that the Northern … Read More
Our current welfare system is broken, and is in need of a radical fix. It is time to ditch it, and start over. Here are 10 reasons why we think this is the case. Tomorrow we will look at what … Read More
One of the finalist in the River Story Awards, the Rangitata Gorge Landcare Group, is a farming community that has taking on a war against pest plants that threaten their grand, braided, glorious river in Canterbury. Check out their story.
Yesterday both the National Government and Green Party opposed the suggestion to place a toll on Auckland’s roads, but for completely different reasons. The Government opposes it because they see it as a new tax. The Greens because they would … Read More
Over the weekend on the Q and A TV show Paula Bennett, Minister of Social Welfare, dismissed as invalid any comparison between the income support given to the elderly in New Zealand and the income support given to children. She … Read More
The Government has confirmed that following the mast season in our southern beech forests – and the plague of rats and stoats it is unleashing – it will proceed with the Battle for our Birds. I support this move. No one likes to … Read More
Simon Bridges appearance on Campbell Live on Monday did little to quell the disquiet about offshore drilling. It’s not that offshore drilling is bad per se – there are clearly economic benefits to be had – but we have to … Read More
In 2012 Jo and I travelled back to the Solomon Islands with UNICEF NZ. As well as checking the quality of work on the schools project we had jointly funded, we took time to understand the wider context of development … Read More
I wanted to share a couple of videos that were made for us by some great Kiwi kids. Lime Hills school was one of two Southland schools that performed at the send-off for the Our Far South voyage at the … Read More
The other day Peter asked me a question on Facebook about kiwi values and we then went on to talk about the difference between equal opportunity and equality of outcomes. Here is the conversation below…
Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line and Blinkers The election is looming, but it’s a sad state of affairs when a conversation over tea takes precedence over actual policies. So we’ve decided to clock out and go fishing.
Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The New Zealand economy has been in recovery since 1992 making this one of our more sustained economic upswings already, with it set to post another year or so of growth at least. … Read More
Our motorcycle ride around the Carolinas and the rest of America’s Bible Belt continues during interesting times. This week in America there has been a furore over the racist-inspired murder of members of bible class in the South Carolina city … Read More
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
From the authors of the bestselling Silk Riders comes the tale of their latest motorbike adventure, Backblocks America.
This time Jo, Gareth and their mates cross North America, from Christopher Columbus’ first landfall in the Bahamas to the extreme northwest of Alaska, via the Appalachians, the deep South, Mexico and the Rocky Mountains — with a cruise down the California coast to finish. Taking the back roads, they discover an America far from the bland and homogenous world of big cities and reality TV.
Jo and Gareth tell their story with customary wit and insight, and it’s packed full of entertaining tales of roadkill, racism, encounters with wildlife, history and good old American hospitality.
From the authors of the bestselling Silk Riders comes the tale of their latest motorbike adventure, Backblocks America.
This time Jo, Gareth and their mates cross North America, from Christopher Columbus' first landfall in the Bahamas to the extreme northwest of Alaska, via the Appalachians, the deep South, Mexico and the Rocky Mountains — with a cruise down the California coast to finish. Taking the back roads, they discover an America far from the bland and homogenous world of big cities and reality TV.
Jo and Gareth tell their story with customary wit and insight, and it's packed full of entertaining tales of roadkill, racism, encounters with wildlife, history and good old American hospitality.
From the authors of the bestselling Silk Riders comes the tale of their latest motorbike adventure, Backblocks America.
This time Jo, Gareth and their mates cross North America, from Christopher Columbus' first landfall in the Bahamas to the extreme northwest of Alaska, via the Appalachians, the deep South, Mexico and the Rocky Mountains — with a cruise down the California coast to finish. Taking the back roads, they discover an America far from the bland and homogenous world of big cities and reality TV.
Jo and Gareth tell their story with customary wit and insight, and it's packed full of entertaining tales of roadkill, racism, encounters with wildlife, history and good old American hospitality.