Protect Wanaka 
Lobby group Protect Wanaka has attacked the current airport expansion impact assessment process as being “stacked, lacking independence and lacking transparency.” In a letter to consultants MartinJenkins’ lead consultant Jason Leung-Wai, Protect...
Questions are being raised over who is considered “important” in the debate over Wanaka Airport development, and who is not. Several groups have been told by senior MartinJenkins consultant Michelle Hancock...
As we reach the half way point in the QLDC’s airport expansion consultation process, transparency is in short supply. So much so that QLDC won’t release to Crux a document that...
This week, we wrote to deputy mayor, Calum McLeod, to advise that he was being taken off our membership list. Calum’s response was to take the story to both the ODT...
After three years of official information requests, QLDC has released to Crux a detailed list of how they spent ratepayers money on consultants and contractors – but the data still excludes...
We have been asking people from the Upper Clutha to tell us what they love about our community…
It can be a long day trip for Southlanders travelling north, with flights leaving Invercargill at 6am and returning after 9.30pm. Southlanders are embracing a new direct jet flight connecting them...
ANALYSIS: With pressure growing on the aviation sector to clean up its carbon act, some EU countries think they have a solution in the form of a tax. The Global Alliance...
New Zealanders are becoming more comfortable with the number of international tourists but more than half are worried that predicted growth is too much. Research out today shows that 24 per...
‘Mood of the Nation’ research commissioned by TIA and Tourism New Zealand measured New Zealanders’ perceptions of tourism. The survey is conducted twice a year, with over 1000 New Zealanders interviewed...