Posts tagged Waitakere City

Leadership in a Landscape

In this address from the opening of the 2013 Going West Writers Festival, Sir Bob Harvey pays homage to the West coast and the role that this landscape, and the books he loves, have played in his extraordinary life.

Oratory, Season 2Going West Festival26 November 2020Going West Books and Writers Festival, Waitakere City, West Auckland, Leadership, Mayor Bob Harvey, Sir Robert Anster Harvey KNZM QSO, New Zealand Politics, New Zealand Labour Party, Books, The landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, Te Kawerau ā Maki, Karekare

The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune

The story of the iconic New Zealand television series Outrageous Fortune and the fictional West family of West Auckland at the 2009 Going West Books & Writers Festival.