Editorials
EDITORIAL: Why seek safety advice – then ignore it?
Sunday 22 September 2019 | Published in Editorials
How often are reports and recommendations actually heeded?
Editorial: Honouring the voice of the child
Tuesday 17 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Some of our reporters went to the glamorous Miss Cook Islands launch at the weekend. Some went to the Senior A rugby semis.
Editorial: Don't let inmates come out angry
Saturday 14 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: In Corrective Services and in the prison at Arorangi there are honest men and women of integrity – prison officers and counsellors and chaplains and more – working very hard to solve the problem of rehabilitating violent criminals. But they can’t do it on their own.
Editorial: $5000 for the emperor's new clothes
Friday 13 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
I bought a nice new shirt from Tuki’s the other week. I’m wearing it right now. It’s purple. It cost me $30.
Editorial: Culling much-loved roosters a fowl idea
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Cook Islands bird-lovers will be cock-a-hoop at news that a French court has ruled to protect a rooster’s crowing.
Editorial: It is our people who protect our islands
Tuesday 10 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Debate is raging over whether the coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive pest that can devastate coconut palms, has got a foothold (or trunkhold) in Tongareva.
Editorial: Searching together for a sewage fix
Friday 6 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
As you drive up the road behind the old palace at Turangi, at first you pass beautifully kept houses and trimmed lawns. Further up, the valley begins to close in, the creeping weeds strangling the trees.
Editorial: Public health is our best insurance
Wednesday 4 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
I have three boys at school, and their classes have been hit by illness over the past week. My 9-year-old was off one day, my 4-year-old another day.
Editorial: We will remember them, at last
Monday 2 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
It’s just a handful of men. Just a headstone here, a grave there, dotted about on these islands.
Editorial: Treasure those who share from the heart
Tuesday 25 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
There’s a wonderful woman selling fruit at Punanga Nui Market every Saturday morning, who gave me a big telling off the first time I visited. I tried to buy my fruit with a $50 note – and she wasn’t impressed.
EDITORIAL: Lead world by showing we're good employers
Monday 24 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
When the kids are yelling at you over which brand of cereal to buy, Health Star Ratings on the packet may not be foremost in your mind.
Editorial: Advice for Mark Brown on spending his $20 million
Saturday 22 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
So, you are Minister of Finance Mark Brown and you discover a cool $20 million slipping around in the bottom of the glovebox – what do you do?
Editorial: When politicians agree, something's amiss
Friday 21 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
The model of Parliamentary democracy we’ve inherited from Britain is a robust one. Westminster was one of the first to embed in law the idea of “Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition” – MPs whose very job it was to challenge and critique the government of the day.
Editorial: Talbot raises both money and awareness
Wednesday 19 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Many, many words have been written in this newspaper about James Talbot’s stoic traverse of New Zealand 3200km Te Araroa trail.
Editorial: Give poorly-paid tourism workers a foot up
Tuesday 18 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
In my first job I was paid about $3.50 an hour, working as the floor-boy in a printing factory.
Editorial: Jesus' message one of love, not fear
Monday 17 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
This month we celebrated Queen’s Birthday honours for leading light in this community: longtime public servants, a league administrator Rau Nga, an airline founder.
Editorial: Local action a model for national meth strategy
Sunday 16 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
It’s evening and cars are parked askew around the Muri Meeting House and the police station next door. The air is warm, the atmosphere close, inside.
Editorial: Politicians accountable for salaries and perks
Friday 14 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
There is something uniquely leveling about the government houses of the Cook Islands. They may be occupied by ministers of the Crown. Or they may be occupied by low-income families who cannot afford homes of their own.
Editorial: Principles of Cooks journalism
Thursday 13 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Since taking the editor’s chair at the Cook Islands News last week, I’ve met an enormous number of people in this community, who have been – without exception – tremendously welcoming.
Editorial: The humblest Parliament in the world?
Wednesday 12 June 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
I have sat many, many hours in the Parliament of New Zealand, gazing down at that country’s shiny-domed MPs in their green leather chairs, carving my initials in the rimu press gallery desk alongside those of previous generations of journalists.
