Greater Auckland

greaterauckland.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:18

Today, Matt Lowrie fact-checks a column by a city councillor who'll be one of 6 members of the new Auckland Regional Transport Committee, set to oversee the region's long-term transport plans. Accuracy and logic are vital in planning, so this is important: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/10/19/w...

Jolisa Gracewood

nzdodo.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:17

There’s an alternative world in which Winston Peters had a single-issue party, and that single issue was TRAINS. Imagine: a couple of decades of working with whomever, left or right, on the condition you get to keep building bits of the nationwide rail network. We’d be train utopia by now! 🥹 #nzpol

Jennifer Ward

jenospeno.bsky.social

17 October 2026 01:32

“Muldoon wasn’t the only National leader to understand this. In 2010, John Key signed up to the Hauora Project with the Salvation Army and the Mongrel Mob. It ran for eight years.”

Jennifer Ward

jenospeno.bsky.social

17 October 2026 01:32

On this issue, he did not pander to populist outrage.”

Jennifer Ward

jenospeno.bsky.social

17 October 2026 01:32

“Muldoon had the wit to realise gang crime wasn’t going to reduce if prison was the only response. And along with that insight, he had something else: political courage. He chose the path of effective but unpopular action and did his best to sell it to the public.