by George Driver | Jun 9, 2020 | Features, The Spinoff
It’s not often that someone graduates from university one year and becomes a senior economist commentating on national media the next. George Driver investigates the meteoric rise of the high-flying Brad Olsen. Read here Published on The Spinoff website, June 6,...
by George Driver | May 24, 2020 | Features, The Spinoff
As the bars reopen and businesses regroup in post-Covid Queenstown, George Driver finds a town filled with bargain prices, eerie streets, fear and hope. A “tourism bloodbath”, a “broke, empty paradise” facing a “tsunami of unemployment”. The headlines about Queenstown...
by George Driver | May 13, 2020 | Features, The Spinoff
How will the tiny town on the edge of Queenstown’s tourism boom and bust survive the Covid crisis? Growing up, Clyde always felt like a quiet backwater… Read here Published on The Spinoff website, May 13,...
by George Driver | May 13, 2020 | Environment, News portfolio, Wilderness magazine
After the nation wide lockdown went into effect, some Te Araroa Trail walkers emerged from the bush to a very different New Zealand. Read here Published on the Wilderness magazine website, March 28,...
by George Driver | Feb 10, 2020 | Features, Sunday Star Times, Travel
Five days riding a scooter along the banks of the Mekong River through Cambodia’s little-visited rural interior. Read here Published in the Sunday Star Times, February 9,...