Playing with the Possibilities

Alexandra MacGibbon | August 31, 2018

Wellington kids have access to great playgrounds, with a brand new one about to be built for kids in the south. All the talk of new and improved play spaces has us pondering playground possibilities.

My Favourite Commute: Ground Level Guangzhou

Kate Spencer |

For the first in a new series, Talk Wellington’s Project Manager reminisces…

Burst my bubble

Lizzy H | August 18, 2018

Guest author Lizzy H loves the bubble she get around in. But she also wonders: are our bubbles making us less human?

Cohousing: Part One

Biddy Livesey | August 4, 2018

Biddy Livesey – a housing policy analyst, researcher, and future resident of Cohaus – explains cohousing. In part 1: an intro.

Hate the System? Change the System!

Korero Wellington | July 11, 2018

Wish it wasn’t so hard to do the sustainable, climate-friendly thing in everyday life? You’re not alone! NZ’s systems make it much too hard (and much too easy to do the opposite).
But the Zero Carbon Act is a first step towards fixing The System – so it’s easier for us to be better. Tell them your “Yeah!” by 19th July!

Talking transport in Te Upoko o te Ika

Stephen Olsen | July 5, 2018

Talk Wellington brings you an insightful weekly digest of some recent media chatter about transport – it’s ‘news you can use’. This week we’ve got Stephen Olsen of Palaver Media providing your food for thought on Wellington transport and how we all talk about it. 

School gate parking wars! The battles continue – do we actually enjoy it?

Ben T | June 8, 2018

Guest poster Ben T writes: we love our kids, so we…behave at our worst, and endanger them where they congregate every day – often spoiling rare time together. And no-one seems capable of calling out what’s behind it all.

POP QUIZ: Which should we obsess expensively about? MOULD or METH?

Kōrero Wellington | June 6, 2018

One of them kills and debilitates thousands of Kiwis a year, especially the young.  It’s got simple solutions that don’t require expensive consultancy services.

The other causes nasty harm on a much smaller scale, but has a delightfully thrilling moral stink that’s seductively adjacent to beneficiary-bashing for those inclined that way.

Regional fuel taxes

Taximan | May 15, 2018

Wellington’s councillors recently asked the government for permission to use a regional fuel tax to help pay for our transport infrastructure improvements.  Guest author Taximan muses on the true costs of transport, and on the odds our leaders would spend more money well.

Get your local on: last chance Wellington!

Talk Wellington | May 12, 2018

All our towns are being shaped his year by a boring sounding but extremely important document: their Long Term Plan. It’s really important to have your say on the last one still open –  it’s even worth missing a few minutes of fave TV.