Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Mount Maunganui landslide report couldn't be more damning

I'm astonished, can I say, that Marty Grenfell, the boss of Tauranga City Council, thinks no one has to quit over the landslide and the damning report. And frankly, that there are not outright calls for him to quit from the mayor and the local MP.

That report, I don't know if it could have been more damning, because it told us Tauranga City Council was warned multiple times that a landslide might happen in exactly the spot where a landslide happened, as early as 1999 and as most recently as only six or seven months before the landslide.

Peter Wiilliams: When a system fails

Here’s a question. If an organisation experiences “systemic failure” isn’t it the responsibility of the person who oversees that system to take the blame for the failure?

Therefore when Tauranga City Council has systemic failure, isn’t it ultimately the fault of the Chief Executive?