OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Year Zero plan shafts Auckland's heritageBrian Rudman asks, how many buildings does the panel think can penetrate a viewshaft before the view becomes as extinct as the volcano we can no longer see?21 Jul 09:31 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Runaway house-price answer lies close to homeThe Auckland house market has been a speculator's goldmine long before New Zealand opened the doors to widespread immigration from Asia, writes Brian Rudman.14 Jul 09:30 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Brown’s chance to take the helmThe resignation of Ports of Auckland chairman Graeme Hawkins for health reasons gives Mayor Len Brown the chance to do what he should have done a long time ago.09 Jul 09:42 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Govt no friend in transport needsLen Brown's recent cuddle-up to Transport Minister Simon Bridges reminds me of a poor Whanganui chap banged up in Bali for being willing to believe anything in his quest for a little love, writes Brian Rudman.07 Jul 09:30 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Auckland, why hate public toilets?Auckland Council's bean counters are trying to make a buck out of public lavatories.02 Jul 09:25 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Govt works blind in state house planWhat remains unclear in this long, drawn-out "make-an-offer" phase is what the Government considers is the going price for a state house, writes Brian Rudman.30 Jun 09:45 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Park pipe rebuff - what would Father say?I'm a little nervous about supporting Watercare's desire to bury a large watermain along the outer fringes of Cornwall Park.25 Jun 09:13 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Spineless city politicians need to sit up and governIn a democracy, if the executive can't get a majority to support its plans, the accepted course is for the rulers to go away and prepare a budget the majority will support, writes Brian Rudman.23 Jun 09:30 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Let's get together on housing - againThe idea of an urban development authority, touted by experts for at least a decade, may again fall on deaf ears, writes Brian Rudman.18 Jun 09:37 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Could this be a new home for Real Groovy?Who better to breathe new life into the abandoned Civic Administration Building than mega music store Real Groovy Records, asks Brian Rudman.11 Jun 09:37 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: 'Warm homes' rhetoric cold comfort for tenantsJust over two years ago, Housing Minister Nick Smith announced that "this year" the Government was developing a housing warrant of fitness, writes Brian Rudman.09 Jun 09:57 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Servants and masters - which is which?Auckland councillors have agreed to lessons to improve their governance skills - a more urgent need is for them to learn how to be better politicians, writes Brian Rudman.04 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Auckland needs support, not empty gesturesNow I'm totally confused. John Key has nominated Auckland for the Lee Kuan Yew World City prize, named in honour of the leader who nanny-stated Singapore.28 May 09:30 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Justice must be seen for PoraFormer Auckland Mayor John Banks is screaming blue murder, demanding the Solicitor-General stand down after the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction for filing a false electoral return after the....26 May 09:30 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Roar of a noise control failureThe New Zealand Transport Agency is adding two lanes, plus a cycleway to a 9.5km stretch of the Southern Motorway between Manukau and Papakura.21 May 09:38 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: You want us to pay for SkyPath?With rates going up again to pay for Mayor Brown's vision Brian Rudman is a little nervous about being stuck with funding the cycling lobby's cross-harbour vision as well.14 May 09:31 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Helping refugees - the least we can doAt the Istanbul Peace Summit last month, Prime Minister John Key rejected Turkish pleas for others to share the burden of the flood of refugees from the Iraqi-Syria bloodbath next door.12 May 08:06 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanFocus on Gallipoli a national identity crisisWith another three and a half years of wallowing in World War I gloom to look forward to, thank God for Princess Charlotte, writes Brian Rudman.05 May 11:00 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Security cure as bad as diseaseThe security Jeremiahs will be most put out. Not one sword-wielding ninja, or explosive-belted suicide bomber, shattered the peace of Anzac Day commemorations. Anywhere.30 Apr 09:30 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanCone rates ahead for touristsTour bus passengers have been striding to the top of Maungawhau/Mt Eden under their own steam since the bus ban of 2011.24 Apr 10:00 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanCampbell's knighthood crusade a ghoulish stepJohn Campbell and his team have been trying every trick in the book to try to escape TV3's death row.21 Apr 09:37 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Fairfax's photo nightmare - I told you soFairfax Media's decision to ship up to eight million historic NZ news photographs and negatives to Little Rock, Arkansas, for "digitising" has proved perilous.14 Apr 09:28 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanEmpty pews underscore nonsense of EasterNZ's an increasingly secular country, writes Brian Rudman. The 2013 Census recorded 41.9 per cent of us as having no religion.07 Apr 10:52 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Time to KO celebrity boxing freak showWhichever of Cameron Slater's demons encouraged him to humiliate and endanger himself, a responsible boxing promoter should have said no, writes Brian Rudman.31 Mar 08:40 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Desist or resign - words port bosses never heardSince the early days of European settlement, Auckland politicians have been dreaming up ways of dumping spoil in the harbour to create more land.24 Mar 04:00 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Auckland needs say in NZTA spendAny business case prepared before the Waterview bypass is completed will have to rely on notoriously inaccurate modelling to predict its effect on the harbour bridge, writes Brian Rudman.20 Mar 01:12 AM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Knife ban reasonable for all - including SikhsForgive me for not being my usual liberal self when I read that a group of local Sikhs are getting over-excited about not being allowed carry ceremonial daggers.17 Mar 04:00 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Peacekeeping UN, not warlike US, is our clubThe film clip of Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee striding into the bowels of the $250 million Boeing C-17 Globemaster for a test drive this week was scary.17 Feb 04:30 PM
