Former National MP Maurice Williamson toying with a return to politics on Auckland Council
16 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Former National MP Maurice Williamson cannot understand why National does not stand candidates at local elections. Photo / File
Former National MP Maurice Williamson cannot understand why National does not stand candidates at local elections. Photo / File
Maurice Williamson, the politician turned diplomat, is toying with the idea of a political comeback by standing for Auckland Council next year. Only months after returning to his home in east Auckland from being New Zealand consul-general in Los Angeles, Williamson said locals are asking him to get elected to council and shake things up.
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An artist s interpretation of what an early version of Auckland light rail system could have looked like. At that point, it all went pear-shaped. To Goff’s delight, the government pledged to fully fund light rail, and it was taken off AT and given to its state counterpart Waka Kotahi. Then, dazzled by a “have we got a deal for you” pitch from a fusion of the Super Fund and a Canadian pension fund, the nonsense really began and the Ministry of Transport was given the job of weighing up two competing and quite different proposals in secret.
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Who wants $1m from Shakespearean playhouse The Pop-Up Globe: liquidators first report
14 Mar, 2021 09:35 PM
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A new Pop-Up Globe that is under construction at the Ellerslie Race Course.
Failed Shakespearean Auckland theatre business The Pop-Up Globe owes more than $1 million to creditors whose names have now been published in the first liquidators report. The business has for about six years been erecting a full-scale temporary replica of the Shakespearean Globe Theatre and staging plays but it went under on March 3.
ANZ, Inland Revenue and scaffolding specialists Camelspace are some of the creditors listed by the liquidators.
Former Herald reporter Eleanor Barker with Lyndon Katene, centre, and stuntman Alex Holloway from The Pop-Up Globe. Photo / Jason Oxenham
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