Back to training for New Zealand as Denmark takes out integrity gold
Like most Kiwis, I like gold. I like it when we win and I remember our winners.
A Lamborghini for everyone on the West Coast?
One hundred billion dollars would buy everyone on the West Coast a shiny new car. It’s a colossal amount of money – and it’s the value of the assets that our councils are managing.
Inheritance, institutions, and the Office
Usually, when we talk about institutions we mean places we don’t like to go – police stations, hospitals, or courts...
Although there are cases of fraud here in Godzone, we’ve got it pretty good compared to other countries. Mostly, people act with integrity and go to work to do the best job they can.
Have you got it all boxed off?
The movement of goods and people is the glue that holds the modern world together, so we ignore it at our peril.
I’m a brain surgeon, me
I love what I do – but I don’t enjoy trying to explain it at parties…
My only friend, the end
The End – described as a spiraling 12-minute Freudian saga – is one of my favourite Doors' tracks.
Slips, trips, and the one-armed auditor
Are Wellington's high kerbs part of an evil plan to depose cats from the number one spot on the net? And what's that got to do with ACC?
Increasing the impact of audit
What do performance audits have in common with throwing stones?
Sometimes auditors seem to speak another language. Here's an attempt to translate some auditor-speak into Kiwi-speak...
A quality service? What are they doing with complaints?
Trying to make a complaint can sometimes make you feel like you're starring in your own dead parrot sketch.
Get yer trousers on, you're Tweeted.
It's a Monday in 1975. In Britain, a 10-year-old boy is quietly finding a spot to watch the TV out of his parents' line of sight. It's approaching 9pm, the TV watershed, which means bedtime. At stake are playground bragging rights...
