Opinion

Editors note: Mayor Clark offered this opinion piece to Stuff / Southland Times and they refused to publish in its original form. Hi Team While we still wait for the 3 parties to agree on their coalition agreement, there are two significant changes on the horizon. The voice of Maori in a democracy I

Opinion: Six Years of Failure. By Dr Muriel Newman It’s customary in the run up to an election for voters to ask, “Do I feel better off today than when this Government first took office?” Since Labour is a second term government, let’s turn our mind back to 2017. After nine years of National, econom

More Southlanders will receive essential cancer treatments if National becomes Government. Cancer touches almost every family in New Zealand. It is something that is also close to my heart, having lost both of my parents to cancer. Each year, more than 25,000 Kiwis are diagnosed with cancer and more

“It staggers me that journalists take political polls seriously and call the forthcoming election a close-run thing. That’s rubbish. Labour will be swept out in a landslide, as I’ve been writing for the past two years. Putting aside the indisputable fact of the government’s astonishing ineptitude on

Watch: Nicola Willis, Deputy Leader of the National Party, as she speaks at the public meeting held at the Invercargill Working Men’s Club. We apologise for the initial rough footage, as there were issues with the tripod causing an important part to be missed. However, we managed to implement a succ

The state of our roads in Invercargill and Southland is a huge concern. Our councils have done their best, under very trying circumstances, but cuts to government road funding have meant that they have had a difficult job in recent years. Millions of dollars in Waka Kotahi (NZ Transport Agency) fund

With voting underway, now seems a good time to give you a few reasons to vote for me. A vote for me is a vote for the tradies, apprentices and labourers who quite literally built this city. Related:  David Meades: A Strong Advocate For Council, Mayor Clark Give His Endorsement Candidate Statements R

Here’s a quiz. What is Invercargill? A city.  What is a city made of? Buildings. Who builds buildings?  Builders.  Easy, right? Invercargill is a city made of buildings built by builders. But Invercargill doesn’t have enough buildings. A 2021 report showed just how dire our housing crisis is.  Inver