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Is it time to bring in commissioners to manage Wellington City Council?

By Ian Apperley on December 2, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

It seems that Wellington City Council is failing to do its job. It’s managed to isolate itself from the residents, which has effectively broken democracy in the city, and there is no […]

Wellington’s Growing Pains might be the death of it, Shelly Bay, the last straw for local democracy

By Ian Apperley on December 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

As some of you know, I’ve started working back in the city, at least three days a week, after some months of relative isolation on the farm. The last couple of weeks […]

Postcards from Taumata Island: Summer, grass, and a growing menagerie

By Ian Apperley on December 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

It has been a while since I last wrote to you dear reader. I make no excuse for the lengthy pause between posts, sometimes, as a writer, inspiration takes a holiday of […]

Postcards from Taumata Island: Spring, national elections loom, watching Wellington CBD suffer from a distance

By Ian Apperley on September 3, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Spring has arrived in the Wairarapa with grass growing (it never really stopped over what was an warmer than usual winter) and everything starting to flower. Days are longer, warmer, drier, and […]

Postcards from Taumata Island: GWRC under fire at Taumata Island, the NZTA PR Department moves on Wairarapa transport, a visit to Wellington

By Ian Apperley on July 8, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Trouble in paradise with our neighbour trespassing the Greater Wellington City Council from his property, which as I have written about before, contains the Taumata (Gretel) Lagoon. This incredibly special wetland hosts […]

Postcards from Taumata Island: Winter doldrums, worries for Wellington, no confidence in Carterton District Council, and dangerous roads

By Ian Apperley on June 29, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Low lying mist early in the morning is a constant now, as the winter doldrums peak with just a few days before we start to see the light returning at either end […]

How not to fix a dying CBD: Do your duty public servants, return to your battery farm offices, sacrifice yourselves

By Ian Apperley on June 10, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

All the dinosaurs have been out over the last few days trying to bully public servants and other staff back to working in less than humane conditions in CBD offices because the […]

Postcards from Taumata Island: Winter arrives, South Wairarapa Politics, new challenges

By Ian Apperley on June 6, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

We have been here for a month now. The full moon came up through the pine shelter belt last night, a strange yellow ball casting shadows across the paddocks, an ice ring […]

Postcard from Taumata Island; Your foreign correspondent from the Wairarapa checks in

By Ian Apperley on May 24, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

Three weeks after moving from Strathmore to Taumata Island, outside Carterton, population eighty, I’ve finally come up for air. Lindsay Shelton is calling me his “foreign correspondent”, and in some ways he’s […]

Will Wellington City Council have commissioners appointed?

By Ian Apperley on April 29, 2020 • ( 5 Comments )

News over the last week that Sue Wells is being bought in to try and help a Council that appears on the face of it to have become tribal, and not in […]

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