by Cimino | 17 Oct 2020 | Events, Te Muri Crossing
Sir Peter is Te Muri Crossing cocktail party guest of honour Self-identifying as a Westie, Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, after 21 November, hopefully, will also identify as a Mahu Westie. Time was running out, and the Mahurangi Coastal Trail Trust was...
by Cimino | 5 Oct 2020 | Regional parks
Regional parks review round-1 feedback deadline extended Round one of Auckland Council’s 10-year regional parks management plan review began 1 September. It was to end next Monday afternoon, close of play, but has been extended to 26 October. The 12 October date...
by Cimino | 18 Sep 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Democracy index, Direct democracy, Term of office
Act now and Aotearoa could own Democracy Day 2021 With Donald Trump’s best prospects now being immediate resignation and a prompt Mike Pence pardon, the United States’ flawed democracy might now survive long enough to face redemption. Shy seven weeks, it is 20 years...
by Cimino | 7 Sep 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Democracy index, Direct democracy, Pandemic, Term of office
25% less democracy doesn’t equate to 25% less can-kicking Blamed for everything from the lack of climate-action mobilisation to the lack of a capital gains tax, to the failure to raise the retirement age, the three-year parliamentary term—it is persistently...
by Cimino | 14 Aug 2020 | Action plan, Climate mobilisation, Sea-level rise
$30 million Mahurangi action plan $3 million over 5 years seemed, for a moment there in 2004, as though all the Mahurangi Harbour’s Christmases had come at once. Even in today’s money, $9.06 million is more than twice the 2004 amount, but nor, back then, does...
by Cimino | 5 Jul 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Dredging
Depraved indifference to humanity and the home planet Aotearoa has demonstrated that democracy can work. Globally, however, covid-19 demonstrates the deadly degree to which governmental and intergovernmental governance, democratic or otherwise, is grossly...
by Cimino | 14 Jun 2020 | Climate brinksmanship, Climate mobilisation
Making molehills out of mobilisation mountains What should have been no worse than a four-thousand-death epidemic is determinedly on its way to becoming an at-least-four-million-death pandemic—a cruel and unnecessary global demonstration of the...
by Cimino | 6 Jun 2020 | Climate mobilisation
Democratic climate-action mobilisation or martial law That thatoriginally published sans grammatical double-copula which should have been one of the most influential books of all time ranks 302 209 places behind Nevil Shute’s On the Beach of Amazon’s best...
by Cimino | 27 May 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Coalition democratisation, Pandemic
Every global thing to gain by taking coalition initiative Messiah complex is a label few would wish have bestowed. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern would likely rather run a Walker mileOlympian Sir John George Walker was the first person to run the mile in under 3:50...
