“Mayors and district councils would take over the duties of regional councils, in a coalition proposal pitched as the biggest shake-up of local government in three decades.” So reports RNZ on Tuesday 25 November 2025 and aint that the truth!!! T’will be a shake-up alright, but will it achieve any of the good things it […]
As the tenure of the current government drags on it is becoming more and more apparent that the Prime Minister’s Achilles heel is not his lack of political acumen – it is his complete disregard for how the other half live. Either demographically or geographically. He may almost have got away with it except that
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I started writing this piece just after nominations for the 2025 Local Government elections had closed and we were all looking forward to the shenanigans of hard-fought electoral campaigns across the motu – except where we weren’t. In Taranaki alone, more than one by-election is flagged because there were not enough nominations to fill the
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“The government will take back power from local councils if their decisions are going to negatively impact economic growth, development, or employment”. This according to RNZ is what Chris Bishop has recently proclaimed at a business event in Wellington. Chris Bishop is showing himself to be a bit of a thug with a short attention
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I am fresh from having attended an adept and thought-provoking rendition of Geoff Allen’s SISTER ANZAC play by the Hawera Repertory Society. The play provides a snapshot of the lives and loves of four nurses aboard the hospital ship MAHENO during World War 1. It offers a lot more to think about than the trite
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Well knock me down with a feather! In another incomprehensible rush of blood to the head the Deputy Prime-Minister David Seymour has written to all the Mayors across the land exhorting them to get involved to encourage kids not to wag school. What does he think they can possibly do? ASK NICELY? To be fair,
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