Let's rethink our electricity industry
Original article can be found here. If farming is New Zealand's backbone, then the energy sector is our lifeblood. And New Zealanders...
Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
Jan 23, 20134 min read
Sparrow: A Chronicle of Defiance
New book delivers epic true story of WWII’s most defiant force lands after decade-long journey.
Grant McLachlan
Nov 10, 20122 min read
The Teapot Tapes
Here is the transcript of the infamous conversation between John Banks and Prime Minister John Key.
Archives
Nov 10, 20116 min read
Wowsers unite communities (against them)
"Wowser: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder." - C.J. Dennis
HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
Nov 5, 20103 min read
We need to eliminate the bad driving habits
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HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
Jun 1, 20101 min read
Cycle trail could wield wide economic benefits
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HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
May 25, 20101 min read
Energywise? Yeah right
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HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
May 18, 20101 min read
Are we selling ourselves short?
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HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
May 4, 20101 min read
Let's have the truth... and an apology
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HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
Apr 20, 20101 min read
RMA appears rotten at the core
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HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
Dec 8, 20091 min read
Farewell to hero who saw Rudolf Hess crash, was almost killed by bomb and survived three years in PO
Original article can be found here. A SCOT who survived more than three years in POW camps where he narrowly missed being killed by a...
Mark McGiven - The Daily Record
Oct 29, 20092 min read
Ngaruroro saga- a lesson in what not to do
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HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
Sep 8, 20091 min read
RMA prosecutions an absolute disgrace
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HUMAN NATURE: Grant McLachlan - Stuff - Column
Aug 25, 20091 min read
McVillage could be iconic
If done right, McDonalds could be an iconic welcoming focus point to the Havelock North Village.
Grant McLachlan
Aug 24, 20093 min read
Battiscombe gardens to get rethink
Original article can be found here. Battiscombe Tce residents have won another reprieve for their threatened vege patches. Last night,...
The Taranaki Daily News
May 29, 20092 min read
The carrot and the stick
Young lawyer treats council to plates of humble brussel sprouts. Every now and again the New Plymouth District Council gets a jolly good telling off. Sometimes they deserve it too and Tuesday night's council meeting was one of those occasions. For the second time this year a smart young lawyer turned up and quoted all sorts of legal stuff and in the process pointed out bits and pieces that the council had got wrong. On the first occasion it was pointed out that chicken po
Gordon Brown - Taranaki Daily News
May 1, 20094 min read
Hawke's Bay battler for the little people
To view the original article, please click here. For Grant McLachlan, saving Battiscombe Tce's gardens is just one more battle in his campaign to stand up for the little guy. The Hawke's Bay-based professional planner and qualified lawyer travelled to New Plymouth on Tuesday to make a submission against the removal of 12 gardens encroaching on New Plymouth District Council reserve land on Waitara's Battiscombe Tce. The gardens had been due for removal yesterday. Mr McLach
Matt Rilkoff - Taranaki Daily News
Apr 30, 20092 min read
Stop feeding the monster
The original published article can be found here. The new Government has promised to review all spending under its control. What it should also consider is the size of the industry recommending the changes. The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said that "the only constant is change". In New Zealand, the growth of civil servants and consultants advising government departments has grown at a greater rate than the Government's budget. What's scary is that the governme
Grant McLachlan - New Zealand Herald - Column
Jan 14, 20094 min read
Planning disasters - there's been a few
Click here to view the original published article. Among the buzz words to be thrown around in 2009, one will be "infrastructure". While...
Grant McLachlan - New Zealand Herald - Column
Dec 31, 20084 min read
Angela Cameron - ABC News
Feb 22, 20050 min read
