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John MacDonald: The cyclone review findings that astound me

I am astounded by what’s come out of this review into how well-prepared Civil Defence was prior to Cyclone Gabrielle and its immediate emergency response. 

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John MacDonald: What a bunch of pushovers we are

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We are the People’s Republic of Pushovers.  This time, we’ve been pushovers over this apparent cyber-attack on P

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John MacDonald: Police have had a gutsful, and rightfully so

Who would be a cop? Not me. Especially after all the things we’ve been hearing about how disgusted they are with the pay offer that’s landed on the table f

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John MacDonald: More proof that local government is broken

We’re about one month away from the halfway mark in the current term of the Christchurch City Council and its latest residents survey is a shocker.  For st

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John MacDonald: Christchurch Airport should pull the plug on the whole Tarras Project

Christchurch Airport is stopping any further work on the Tarras Airport project, the pipedream it’s had to build an airport 400 kilometres away in central

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John MacDonald: Labour soft on gangs? Nash says no, no, no, yes

When I heard that former Police Minister Stuart Nash was spilling the beans on what happened when he tried to get a zero limit on how much property gang me

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John MacDonald: Politicians can fix child poverty. As if

Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern once said that ending child poverty was the reason she got into politics.  I wish someone had told her at the time tha

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John MacDonald: We need to prepare people better for parenting

If you’re a parent of any age or stage —you might have little ones or you might be a grandparent, or somewhere in-between— you might find this a bit weird.

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John MacDonald: Like it or not, our broken cathedral needs more public money

Late last year we heard that work on the Christchurch Cathedral reinstatement had slowed down.   We’d had a tip-off from someone who had a mate working on

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John MacDonald: Is it beneficiary bashing or just accountability?

Guess what I was accused of the other day? I was accused of elder abuse.   Now, this wasn’t for real. It was from someone who got a bit overexcited about w

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