Help our Lost Confused Politicians

Posted 18th December 2018 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

It’s been 100 years since the end of the Great War of the European & American Bankers that spread a new power across the globe where the Anglo American Work ethic has changed the face of all cultures and all nations but now its looking a bit old and sad and the job of government cheering hard work and growth of industry seems out of date. Maybe it’s time for some progressive politics to blast fresh air on the cobwebs of political complacency.
Garry Tong & Tim Shadbolt have been great cheerleaders for progress but there has been a lot of questionable stuff outside the public mandate that are not the nuts and bolts of maintaining a healthy community.
If I was a mayor I would treat rates as a form of community insurance, also I would be cheerleading whistle blowers and have a reward system for our brightest and best in the community.
There are great changes ahead for us all in the world and the old ways are not going to be appropriate forever.  

Freedom Camper Blues of New Zealand

Posted 10th March 2018 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

‘Tis good to read in this paper that our mayors are busy trying to nut out a solution for the freedom camping debate.
I see it as a problem of a great big world trying to squash it’s mass holiday makers in to a small country with limited infrastructure and now limited tolerance.

I see on TV Oprah Winfrey addressed Stephen Colbert’s audience proclaiming EVERYONE SHOULD VISIT  NEW ZEALAND !  Many people treat Oprah like a messiah so let’s hope they don’t take it as a commandment or we literally going to burst!  The only hope is the Government puts a high tariff on cheap airline seats because we ain’t seen nothing yet... Or we could go the way of the Department of Conservation and go all NIMBY on them.

Stewart Island Ideas Wanted

Posted 16th November 2017 to the Southland Express Newspaper Invercargill NZ

When Garry Tong asks what will help the community in Stewart Island in these uncertain times. I think he has touched on the big picture problem that is effecting all of mankind, that is what some call maggot economics!
Stewart Islands was a place to get away from the problems of the world but I fear the world has got it’s grasp on this last bit of godzone NZ .

If you want to make Stewart Island thrive in our system it has to develop and that means road expansion and infrastructure but making it a DOC National Park is the kiss of death to that kind of land exploitation.
All that’s left now is to make it a Living museum to the way we where and try and concentrate on that.
Or maybe a model self sufficient community if you really want to be bold.

 Let’s face it Southland nearly everything progressive in NZ is sucked into the singularity that is Auckland that’s not going to change any time soon.  


Published p 11 Nov 23 2017