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My parents were refugees in this country and, despite both having qualifications where they came from, they both had to retrain here and take on different low-level jobs to keep their heads above water while they had to. My late father once told me of his days working in a wool scouring plant and coming home stinking of sheep, only to have my mother tell him she loved him no ...

I grew up in Wellington and as a kid spent a bit of time in the wonderful greenbelt that surrounds the city. Back then, while there was relatively abundant plantlife, a walk or jog up there was a fairly silent experience – serene, to be sure, but not exactly full of life.

If we fast forward 40 years, that situation has completely changed. Zealandia, a huge number of vo...

As I sat down to read board papers on Saturday night, I had a quick scan of the news headlines and the first article I came to was about a young police officer who was critically injured in the line of duty and was, as I read, on a ventilator in Wellington Hospital. He’d been out doing something as routine as it gets, deploying road spikes to stop a fleeing driver, when he wa...

One of the wiser governance people I’ve had the privilege of working with once told me that, as a professional director, you should always try to be a cleanskin. By this she meant that people should never be quite sure which way you vote.

Another of my governance mentors, once described as the godfather of Canterbury governance, was particularly proud that nobody had a...

I love Europe. Maybe it’s my Eastern European roots, but having clocked up a huge number of air miles over the past 20 or so years, my favourite trips were always the ones where I winged my way to Europe.

There’s something truly lovely about getting up in the morning, going for a run along centuries-old cobbled streets, then returning to a café au lait, a pain au choco...