Opinion

Opinion: While all non-essential workers are at home, trying to keep busy around the house, many of us are left wondering what effects Covid-19 is going to have on the local housing market. Whether your livelihood is directly involved with the property market, like ours. Or indirectly like many; you

I am one of your City Councillors. Towards the end of April, I will be asked to vote on a rate increase for the 2020-21 year (commencing June 2020). It is my view that given the forthcoming financial impact of Covid-19, we should have a zero rate increase. Alongside that, Council is reviewing its ha

Hi there team and welcome to another look at The Rear View Mirror. A semi regular look at whats been going on and not going on in our neck of the woods. Since our last look our world has been turned on its head with the rampant spread of the Corona virus. Health wise most […]

“The deep-south has been largely ignored in the Government’s spend up with Invercargill getting no money for roading improvements, MP for Invercargill Sarah Dowie says. “It’s hard to see how the Government’s transport plans won’t come at the expense of transport investment in the deep south when bil

There is public concern that ICC is undertaking water blasting of the museum’s pyramid roof. It needs to be cleaned, sealed and repainted as all future options involve the retention of the iconic pyramid roof. As a recently elected City Councillor, I am frustrated about several issues regarding the

A sense of fairness is one of the first inklings most of us have of justice; making sure the glasses of juice are perfectly filled to the same degree, that we get our turn on the slide. Here in the south of the South Island we are home to some of New Zealand’s finest industry, […]

With the announcement this week that Rio Tinto is carrying out a strategic review of the Tiwai smelter I have read a lot of misleading and in many cases downright untrue information on social media and news outlets as people and organisations push their own agendas. A few FACTS for consideration: NZ

We need it to have strong leadership and vision, it needs to be a well chaired, cohesive group of forward-thinking fresh people. It needs to have strong proven governance skills, which means knowing what its role is and the difference between governance and management. We need people who know and un