14 August 2026 Cancer is a non-communicable disease, which together with cardiovascular disease, are responsible for about 60% of deaths in New Zealand. It is important to understand potential links between cancer and geography. Cancer rates (cancers/1,000/year) in selected districts around New Zealand. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are hardware, software, technologies, and tools that enable the storage, retrieval, visualization, and analysis of geographic features and associated data....

A transcript of the 10 min discourse I gave at the Bay of Plenty Regional Council by-election meeting in Matatā on Tuesday 11 August 2026.

Current and past NZ Governments have obsessed about reforming Local Government. I have considered the evidentiary case for such reforms and find that there isn't one. Victor Luca, 7 July 2026 Since I first entered Local Government in 2019, both Labor- and National-led Governments have shown an obsession with reforms of Local Government (LG). Failure of LG and declining voter turnout were often cited as reasons for the need to reform. The current lot call their reform, ‘Simplifying Local...