Nick Clark: Absurdity in the asylum

This week, Stuff reported on a story that seemed so absurd, it caught our attention: the idea to fence a pool on a remote island, just meters away from the Pacific Ocean.

On Motukawaiti Island, 3.5km off Northland’s coast, authorities have mandated that a small swimming pool be enclosed. This pool, which has existed without incident for two decades, suddenly requires a barrier to protect against the unlikely event of unsupervised children under five accessing it.