by Cimino | 24 Jan 2017 | Regatta 2016
Mahurangi Regatta supporters Auckland CouncilBrowns Bay Boating ClubBucklands Beach Yacht ClubCitywide ElectricalClassic Yacht AssociationCorporate AV ServicesDevonport Yacht ClubGulf Harbour Yacht ClubMahurangi Cruising Club—host club and race organiserMahurangi East...
by Cimino | 18 Jan 2017 | Regatta 2017
It may take a year or two to take. The aim is to provide a fairway to allow craft to race or parade past the beach, so as to provide shoreside spectators with a—spectacle. At this year’s Mahurangi Regatta, as well as the four-decade-long practice of buoying off an...
by Cimino | 10 Jan 2017 | Regatta 2017
This month’s Mahurangi Regatta marks the 40th anniversary of the venerable event’s revival. Founded as Friends of the Mahurangi three years earlier, Mahurangi Action revived the regatta in 1977—the event had lapsed during World War II. Planned as a one-off, the...
by Cimino | 29 Dec 2016 | Campaign Finance Reform, Corruption, Term of office
Sixth of the best to keep them honest The sixth point of the Chartist’s six-point plan is sublimely simple. To counter parliamentary corruption and bought elections, simply hold far more frequent elections, so that, with the many times more votersif, of course, rather...
by Cimino | 24 Dec 2016 | Democracy index, Election turnout, Representation, Term of office, Youth voting
Four-year term terminal for turnout long-term The need for Aotearoa to have a codified constitution is self-evident. Despite that, the initiative of constitutional lawyer Dr Andrew Butler and former prime minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, launched in August, has failed to...
by Cimino | 11 Dec 2016 | Agricultural emissions, Climate mobilisation, Coalition democratisation, MMP
Loyal opposition reaches oblivious conclusion It was a stroke of unintended brilliance, which has blighted democracy ever since. When John Cam Hobhouse coined the term loyal opposition, in jest, he could’ve had no inkling he would help dignify 190 years of two-party...
by Cimino | 3 Dec 2016 | Paths and trails, Warkworth
Riverpath puts Warkworth in league of its own Mahurangi imagined in 2029 The following future-imagining does not necessarily reflect the opinions or aspirations of those persons or companies quoted or cited. If measured in leagues, it’d be fewer than 1.3 of them....
by Cimino | 11 Nov 2016 | Climate action, Election turnout, Regional governance, Youth voting
From Day One he’s wanted a better slogan than ‘the World’s most liveable city.’ For his trouble, and even before hearing what that slogan might be, Mayor Phil Goff is being rubbished and ridiculed for wanting to replace the city’s tragically generic branding, with...
by Cimino | 7 Nov 2016 | MMP, Sea-level rise
His timing is impeccable, and his mission merciful. Immediately mocked by the mainstream media, Gareth Morgan’s launch of a party dedicated to eliminating poverty and closing the inequality gap is a cause worthy of wholehearted support, even by the mean-minded....
