The so-called trans-Tasman relationship, which we will commemorate next Sunday on Anzac Day, has never been more abused than it is now. While the somewhat idealistic brotherhood in arms tradition was established by a previous generation on the bloody slopes of Gallipoli more than a century ago, there is now a new conflict festering beneath the surface which is raising temperatures and tempers on both side of the Tasman.
It makes no sense to have hundreds of tourism industry staff in fretting about being out of work while the agriculture and horticulture industries are desperately short of the same number staff.
The recent announcement from newly appointed Tourism Minister Stuart Nash that he will ban freedom camping in vehicles that are not self-contained has come like… Read More »Freedom Campers not invited
In the first week of each new year, for the past three or four decades, I have looked back through the scribbled pages of my… Read More »A wish list for 2020
With the last of the winter tourists hardly out of the country the first of the summer crowd is already on the way and we… Read More »Infrastructure for Tourism