by Cimino | 23 Nov 2019 | Climate mobilisation, Concurrent elections, STV
It is more than semantics. In the thousand-year war to survive anthropogenic global heating, a magazine of silver bullets the size of the 59 000-hectare Hawthorne depot, Nevada, will be needed. However, regardless of the problem, received wisdom would have it,...
by Cimino | 13 Nov 2019 | Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
In a former life, J Barry Ferguson, amongst many things, was: …the garden curator of Greenacre Park on 51st Street Manhattan, a private ‘vest-pocket’ park, open to everyone and owned by the Rockefeller Greenacre Foundation. Having been florist and event...
by Cimino | 6 Nov 2019 | Uncategorised
On 17 December, Mahurangi Action will be 45. This, indubitably, calls for a five-year plan to ensure all that reasonably can be, is achieved—for the Mahurangi, global climate and everything—before the organisation hits its half-centennialquinquagenary seems too...
by Cimino | 28 Oct 2019 | STV, Term of office
Big business would be the biggest loser, was a Labour-led government to legislate to prosecute non-voters. Currently, unlike Australians, New Zealanders are legally allowed to refrain from voting. But with global voter turnout in determined decline, New Zealand’s lack...
by Cimino | 18 Oct 2019 | Heritage vessels, Part 3 Pioneer Pākehā
Pictorially, at least, hmss Buffalo off Gordon Davis Browne’s spar station will make a fashionably late arrival to Auckland Heritage Festival 2019, which concludes at the end of Labour Weekend. Given that Browne’s Mahurangi spar station was the first European...
by Cimino | 11 Oct 2019 | Local, STV
Vote early and often to elect the first mayor of Mahurangi—of course, only the latest vote an individual casts will count. Because somebody votes early, they shouldn’t later be penalised when some late-breaking information causes them to revise their preferences: Vote...
by Cimino | 10 Oct 2019 | Climate mobilisation, Local, Youth voting
It’s long since time to jettison the obligatory if-we-don’t-act-on-climate-within-so-many-years exhortation. Truth is that, since 1988, when not only Dr James Hansen but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher“we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of...
by Cimino | 24 Sep 2019 | Local, STV
Friend of the Mahurangi J Barry Ferguson has long argued the need for a local mayor. Mayors, to be legitimate, need to be elected by preference voting—known as stvsingle-transferable-vote in Aotearoa, and known as rcvranked-choice-voting in the United States, where...
by Cimino | 21 Sep 2019 | Local, STV
Some dots can take longer to connect. And the more obvious the dot, the longer it seems to take for it to be connected. Since the announcement of the terms of reference of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, the Mahurangi Magazine has been exploring ways that...
