Blogs

Cranes in the city show confidence

Chief Executive of Priority One with Nigel Tutt The number of cranes at work in our CBD is a clear sign of a city that has some confidence in its future; it shows developers and investors are backing growth prospects with... Read More

Bury your face in a Fuyū

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny 'Persimmon and cherries, say the bells of St Mary's.” Originally a popular nursery rhyme abut London churches. But we've tinkered with it for convenience, and to point to two outrageous... Read More

Go the Wahs.

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The big Queensland sporting news, in print and on the box last week, was the NRL Magic round held at Suncorp Stadium over the weekend. All the 2024 NRL teams, bar the... Read More

Biomass ... and when a country runs out of rubbish

Weather Eye with John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen Shades of Climate: The fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The... Read More

Rental hope: Ending no-cause evictions

Green Goals with Josh Cole The recent legislation introduced by the Government allowing landlords to terminate tenancies without cause is a major setback for the 1.4 million renters in Aotearoa. This decision heavily... Read More

Exploring Shadow & Light…

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Continuing to celebrate New Zealand Music Month, it's time to fill what has become a gaping hole in the column's recent content - no 'Shadow & Light'. Which means I'll... Read More

What whales are gossiping about…

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Grunts, groans, snorts, barks, clicks, whistles and thwaps. Onomatopoeia - words that phonetically represent the sound they describe - oink, meow, roar. I love the word 'thwap' - the... Read More

Local roads of national significance

Talking Politics with Sam Uffindell, Tauranga MP This week Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced the launch of the coalition Government's Roads of Regional Significance programme. Building world-class infrastructure... Read More

From the Other Side of the Ditch: Boxing Governance Contrasts Between New Zealand and Australia

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid This week's edition is being written from the other side of the ditch with Sideline Sid and his long suffering wife taking a break in sunny Queensland. The two-fold... Read More

Sunspots and the Climate and the Maunder Minimum

Weather Eye with John Maunder The 'Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots - 'storms' on the sun - became almost zero. The period is named after the solar... Read More

Beatniks, turkeys and MetroGnomes

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz We're about one-third of the way through New Zealand Music Month - and thank you for asking, yes, there is a plan. It's pretty simple: write about the many shows happening,... Read More

Bloke lessons for Mother’s Day

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Listen up all you heartless, thoughtless, self-centred guys - you have about 24 hours to bring your relationship back from the brink. You don't really want to turn a celebration of motherhood... Read More