Tag: Auckland floods
NZ declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle unleashes fury across North Island
RNZ News
A national state of emergency has been declared today after Cyclone Gabrielle unleashed fury across the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
There has...
Nick Young: NZ’s climate floods expose stark truth – people paying price of corporate greed crisis
By Nick Young of Greenpeace
My family and I are lucky to have come through it unscathed, but my neighbourhood in Titirangi has been ravaged.
Many...
Gavin Ellis: Communication lessons from the Great Flood
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
It is unlikely that the Mayor of Auckland, Wayne Brown, took any lessons from the city’s devastating floods but the rest...
Auckland deputy mayor talks up media role in disasters in wake of mayor Wayne Brown’s ‘drongos’ text
RNZ News
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is under fire for calling New Zealand journalists “drongos”, blaming them for having to cancel a round of tennis...
Auckland floods a future sign – city needs stormwater systems fit for climate change
ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The extraordinary flood event Auckland experienced on the night of January 27, the...