Sign In / RegisterViewpoint – Getting customer service
Wed, 18 Jan 2017
As a Rodney Local Board member I come across a lot of complaints. They can be via email, phone call, social media, or at meetings,...
Opinions
Book Reviews – A Woman’s Place
Sun, 8 Jan 2017
A Woman’s PlaceBy Joan Withers‘Successful women rarely set out to become role models. They just do the best they can and, hopefully, that becomes inspirational...
Book Reviews – Together
Sun, 8 Jan 2017
TogetherBy Julie CohenIs this a great love story or a story about great love? You, the reader, must decide. It starts in the present day...
Viewpoint – Knowledge is power
Tue, 3 Jan 2017
Leadership, integration and transparency are at the top of issues for Auckland Council. There is simply not enough money to make mistakes, too many big...
Viewpoint – And the campaign begins
Fri, 9 Dec 2016
By George Driver Mahurangi is entering a pivotal period and this local government election is critical. For the first time since the Supercity was created...
Job interviews underway
Thu, 15 Sep 2016
Every three years a bunch of people dust off their CVs and ask ratepayers for a job – it’s local body election time. Recent Meet...
Hibiscus Matters letters – August 2016
Tue, 2 Aug 2016
When asked to make a birthday cake for a Silverdale Fire Brigade volunteer recently, Coast Cakes went the extra mile. The cake was for Tammy...
Three hundred issues young
Mon, 1 Aug 2016
By Jannette Thompson Twenty-one years isn’t long in the life of a newspaper. The world’s first papers were printed in Germany in the early 1600s...
Viewpoint – Africa and back
Sat, 4 Jun 2016
By Tracey Martin, NZ First MP I was recently privileged to be part of a three member New Zealand delegation to South Africa and Zambia...
Your Opinion – Hibiscus Matters June 2016
Wed, 1 Jun 2016
Jackie Cox receives the meat pack from Quality Meats’ Jason McIntyre. Congratulations to Jackie Cox, who was the recipient of a Quality Meats meat...
Grey matters – Age-friendly or not?
Tue, 10 May 2016
My husband and I recently returned from 10 weeks visiting family and friends in the United States. We travelled to several states by plane, bus...
Our Opinion – Put the local back into local government
Sat, 7 May 2016
Forty-five out of 100 is a fail in anyone’s language: that’s the score that more than 3000 ratepayers have given Auckland Council’s reputation in areas...
