Can I sell you a bridge?
Can New Zealand afford a new bridge across Auckland harbour? And is such a bridge visionary thinking or an impediment to a sustainable future?
Tag: auckland
Migrant misery
Jacinda Ardern has apologised for the Dawn Raids – targetting supposed illegal immigrants in the 1970s. Thanks to COVID, we have thousands of illegal immigrants whose visas have expired but who can’t (and often don’t want) to go home. In both cases, New Zealand asked immigrants to come, then turned against them – do we ever learn?
The unlucky country (not us)
How effective is New Zealand’s lockdown against the Delta strain, compared with Australia’s? People wish for better ways of locking down, but there is not ‘better’ lockdown than an absolute one if you are trying to control spread of a virus.
The cage gilding fell off
Here comes delta – only a single case but it has triggered a national lockdown.