Mary Williams

Reporter at Otago Daily Times

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Articles

Moose on the LOOSE?

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsTwo alleged sightings of the elusive moose in Fiordland have begged the age-old question — is it still out there? Mary Williams speaks to the yay-sayers, nay-sayers and maybe-sayers. It is a question of what we hold deer.
Govt’s infrastructure contracting criticised

3 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsDunedinA lawyer at CPB Contractors, the Australian construction giant set to build the new Dunedin hospital, has gone public to slam the government’s "disastrous" approach to contracting major infrastructure projects.
Mothers criticise lack of support for families

3 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsDunedinThree single mums in Dunedin have slammed the Budget for failing their families. Athena MacMillan, who has a 13-year-old son and is an assessment administrator at the Otago Medical School, said a few things in the Budget sounded "good on the surface", but provided "nowhere near" what was needed.
A tale of two tips

4 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsDunedinIn the second part of a two-part series about the polluted Kaikorai Stream, Mary Williams investigates its journey past two tips and finds a leachate pond and angry residents.
Re-elected president of Law Society

1 month ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

Lawyer Frazer Barton has departed his Dunedin legal firm and been re-elected president of the Law Society just weeks after being cleared by its standards committee inquiry. The inquiry — sparked by two complaints from the legal fraternity — had investigated Mr Barton’s role in the destruction of records held by Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) that could have contained evidence helpful in abuse in care cases.
Doors closed to homeless as motel exits transitional housing scheme

1 month ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

A motel is shutting its doors to Dunedin’s homeless people next month, saying providing rooms for them has been a "massive drain" on the owners. The news follows a fire at the Oval on Friday, which destroyed a shack and tents where homeless people have been sleeping. The motel is one of two in the city contracted by Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga — Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), under its transitional housing scheme, to house homeless people temporarily.
Motel to no longer house homeless

1 month ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsDunedinA motel is shutting its doors to Dunedin’s homeless people next month, saying providing rooms for them has been a "massive drain" on the owners. The news follows a fire at the Oval on Friday, which destroyed a shack and tents where homeless people have been sleeping.
Homeless man’s hopes crushed

1 month ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams |Laine Priestley

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. NewsDunedinA homeless man says it is "hard to feel hope" after his makeshift shack burned down at the Oval in a cooking fire. City leaders said the fire, and the plight of other people living in tents at the Oval, was symptomatic of a desperate shortage of government funding for housing and wrap-around support for the city’s homeless.
Invest heavily now: submission

1 month ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

A call for Dunedin to invest heavily in achieving its zero carbon plan has been backed by 150 Dunedin residents. A collective submission was sent by the residents to Dunedin City Council in response to the council’s draft nine-year plan. The submission contained a raft of strongly-worded commentary about the need for the plan to invest in zero carbon planning, including one resident saying the "can had been kicked down the road" far enough. Another said the council should "stop fluffing about".
Swimmers should be wary in parts of river: report

1 month ago | odt.co.nz | Mary Williams

Swimmers should be wary of taking a dip where wastewater flows into a Queenstown river, a council-commissioned report indicates. The report was included in an application being made by Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) seeking retrospective consent under the Resource Management Act for release of treated sewage into the Shotover River, which started on March 31.