by Bruce Cotterill | Feb 18, 2023 | Uncategorised
It’s been a tough couple of weeks. Many of our communities have been hammered. City people. Rural people. Coast people. Good Kiwi people. Nature can be unforgiving. Many of those people now need help and that help will come in different forms. Some will need immediate...
by Bruce Cotterill | Feb 6, 2023 | Blog
If they say that a week is a long time in politics, then the past 10 days have been an eternity. In that time we’ve had a new Prime Minister sworn in, a chaotic shambles around Auckland Transport’s plans for the Elton John concert, a storm, a flood, political polls, a...
by Bruce Cotterill | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog, Leadership
With a challenging year behind us, we have hit 2023 carrying something of a hangover from the past twelve months. The new year is still young, but the challenges past and present have already claimed their first scalp. The Prime Minister has decided that the going is...
by Bruce Cotterill | Dec 19, 2022 | Uncategorised
There is no doubt that distraction is a major enemy of productivity. If we think about our own lives, it is much easier to become distracted by unimportant matters, than it is to deal with the important ones. Important matters require effort, time and thought. If you...
by Bruce Cotterill | Nov 29, 2022 | Uncategorised
Last Friday afternoon, after the deadlines for the Saturday papers and with material for the 6pm news bulletins already well planned, it came. The announcement we all should have wanted to hear. Except that we didn’t. As any seasoned politician will tell you, Friday...
by Bruce Cotterill | Nov 8, 2022 | Uncategorised
I’ve been chatting to a few people about the Prime Minister’s speech at the United Nations. I’m surprised at how many people knew she had spoken there just a few weeks ago. I’m equally surprised by how few people have any idea what she talked about. She spent the...
by Bruce Cotterill | Oct 24, 2022 | Uncategorised
They say a week is a long time in politics. And yet, in the course of a nation’s development, five years is merely the blink of an eye. The past five years in this young country’s history has seen many of us stunned by the speed and scale of our downfall....
by Bruce Cotterill | Oct 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
I watched Wednesday’s announcements with great interest. Of course, we had the Finance Minister in celebratory mood as he opened the books for the year ended June 2022 and declared the highest tax revenue in our history. On the same day, the governor of the...
by Bruce Cotterill | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorised
The local body elections are just around the corner, with the October 8 close-off date now just a couple of weeks away. So the candidates have their signboards out and their websites up. They’ve delivered more public speeches, press releases and commentary in...
by Bruce Cotterill | Sep 11, 2022 | Uncategorised
As the news feed starts suggesting the Government is finally ready to eliminate our outdated Covid traffic light settings, I’ve been reflecting on the unusualness of the past two-and-a-half years. As an Aucklander, even in retrospect, the lockdowns were tough....
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