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Illegal forever |
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 The ongoing saga of Council incompetence seemed to just go on
compounding, with their internal inquiry as to why everything went so
wrong more concerned with covering backs than with either the
environment or the systemic causes of their failures.
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Sadistic torture |
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 It had taken 15 years but by 2010 Murray and Doug had finally destroyed the whole of the Karaka Bay beach.
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Boatshed boatramp |
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 In a democracy everyone would get a boatramp.
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Rape & Pillage |
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 Jeffrey Masson suggested that anyone being raped should just lie back and enjoy it. I guess most rapists would agree with that opinion.
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Necessary maintenance |
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 The concept of maintenance has become the victim of a double standard.
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Iwi Kaupapa |
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 Iwi kaupapa for Karaka Bay
Iwi consultation is concerned on the one hand with ensuring respect for
Maori values, and on the other hand with protecting whakapapa. Thus
Maori are concerned with mauri and wairua on the one hand and
kaitiakitanga on the other. Karaka Bay is one of the most significant
sites in Auckland. The mauri is strong and the stories are rich. Karaka
Bay abounds in middens and in history. It is here that iwi consultation
comes into focus.
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Petition |
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 In less than twelve hours the petition had already attracted more than fifty signatures.
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Damn lies |
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 When someone feels the need to lie you need to ask what they are trying
to cover up and why. Glyn Jones, Media Manager for the Auckland City
Council, fed a litany of lies about Karaka Bay, rather than just a
single lie, to the media. Indeed everything he said was a lie.
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Archaeology |
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 Midden detail
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Pohutukawa drip line |
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 One of the problems with the ACC not consulting anyone is that they have managed to trip over their own feet. It is illegal to put gabion walling within the drip-line of a pohutukawa.
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Brief history |
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 Around 6000 years ago the sea level was much lower. It rose, and then
the beach became more or less stable. The ecology adjusted, as it
always does, until we reached the situation where most recent arrivals
thought it had always been like that.
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Global context |
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 The Local Government Act 2002 states as a first principle that “a local
authority should conduct its business in an open, transparent, and
democratically accountable manner”. The failure of the Auckland City
Council to comply with the Act has deprived the Karaka Bay community of
a very interesting debate.
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The pump station |
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 For more than a thousand years the residents of Karaka Bay managed
quite well without a pump station. If the need arose they could do so again.
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Scapegoat alibi |
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 It was a convenient myth to blame Tony for Peter’s gabion walling not
going ahead, when it was presumably Doug Armstrong who pulled the plug
on the project.
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Stormwater erosion |
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 Massive erosion caused by the Council 8 April 2010
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Soft ecology |
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A maintained soft edge 8 April 2010
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MHWS mobility |
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(Before the tsunami) The mean high water mark has just gone out to sea.
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The Murray syndrome |
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Murray had a brilliant mind but was hopelessly incompetent at
relationships. It was a trap because it was easy to imagine that he
must see connections when in fact they were quite beyond him. Murray
was famous, for example, for never having said hello to colleagues
although he had worked with them for more than twenty years.
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