Jafas

Aucklanders? Well they’re not really part of New Zealand are they? They’ve got their little culture, their own little country up there. It’s their own little rat race and I think they can have it up there.

– South Island fitter and welder

It’s a nonsense. You think Aucklanders got this way by sitting on their backsides?

– Auckland entrepreneur Sharon Hunter

In dog they trust down here, and well they might. For Auckland’s forgotten them, the weather’s forsaken them, and the sheep’s back they’ve ridden for so long and so well has snapped.

– Joe Bennett (in the South Island)

Up. Up Up. That word is the essence of Auckland. Up here, up there, up mine, up yours. Up to the sky in a sky tower. From here, I look down on the city that looks down on the south.

– Joe Bennett (in Auckland)