Latest from John MacDonald

Fast-tracking 1000 Pegasus homes would have denied residents a proper say.

OPINION: Call for Government to do its job so businesses can get on with theirs.

OPINION: Consents for 7592 new homes rose 33% in the past year.

OPINION: One new development has about 80% of homes used as short-term rentals.

OPINION: John MacDonald offers amalgamation advice to local mayors.

OPINION: Hindsight is a wonderful thing at coroner's inquest into 2019 mosque attack.

OPINION: I’ll take inconvenience over more tragic road deaths any day.

OPINION: Ginny Andersen might just surprise us.

OPINION: 'If money was no object - I’d have median barriers on pretty much every road.'

Pure, unchlorinated water is disappearing into the ground, says John MacDonald.

OPINION: Commissioner sticking to the lines about reported crime being less than normal.

OPINION: It seems all year we’ve been talking about why kids get into trouble.

Yesterday, Ardern was heard calling David Seymour 'an arrogant prick'.

OPINION: Nanaia Mahuta has blown it and I don’t believe a word she says anymore.

OPINION: Have we got a broken roading system?

OPINION: Nothing is going to stop the Government's water reforms.

Compassion for parents ordered to hand over sick child to health authorities.

Opinion: Fancy the idea of your rates going up by 70 per cent over the next nine years?

OPINION: Five-year-old Malachi Subecz was fatally beaten by his caregiver.

OPINION: We’d be dreaming if we thought the Government was going to solve this one for us.

Opinion: Health NZ seeks guardianship of a 4-month-old for life-saving operation.

OPINION: Christchurch crime stats at odds with the feeling in the city.

OPINION: Reserve Bank is out of touch with the ‘stop spending, start saving’ message.

Delay in the decision on future of Hillmorton in-patient mental health unit.

OPINION: The Prime Minister personally wants to see the voting age lowered.

OPINION: The best thing they could do is spend money on median barriers.

OPINION: The burden is falling heavily on those of us who aren’t criminals.

Opinion: Why are dairies allowed to have a vape shop inside their store?

Opinion: Waka Kotahi should spend some money on our roads.

Opinion: They have well and truly earned the right to be known as the Women’s All Blacks.

OPINION: Upgrade of streets around the new Christchurch Stadium to go ahead.