So it now seems like everyone knew there was a landslide coming at Mt Maunganui and no one did anything. The mountain was the case study for the wider project, and the report “clearly flagged the danger across Mount Maunganui”. Reid Basher, an expert on disaster risk governance, has warned us about exactly this pattern. That phrase captures the wider pattern that ties Mount Maunganui to the rest of this summer’s disasters in Northland, the Coromandel, Tairāwhiti and beyond. Mt Maunganui tragedy another deregulated Kiwi nightmare.