by Cimino | 3 Mar 2019 | Local, Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
There is much to applaud and support in Warkworth’s draft structure plan. Submissions are invited, as is statutorily required, prior to the final stages of the process, labelled, on the flow chart: Changes to Structure Plan and Adoption Or, as the text would have it:...
by Mahurangi Action | 18 Apr 2018 | Local, Warkworth
Mahurangi Action has frantically prepared feedback to enable members, and other readers of the Mahurangi Magazine, to quickly email a comprehensive submission to Auckland Council. This is a work in progress, but the target was to have the content ready for use by the...
by Cimino | 24 Mar 2018 | Dredging, Local, Local board, Warkworth
At least Ōrewa is equally inconvenient for all Rodney residents. In its case for twin local board areas, the Mahurangi Magazine pointed out: So disparate are the areas, that meetings of the Rodney Local Board are held in Ōrewa, which is in neither half. Now,...
by Cimino | 21 Aug 2017 | Concurrent elections, Direct democracy, MMP, Online, Parliament, Youth voting
As with the America’s CupWhether apocryphal or otherwise, and whether ‘Your Majesty, I regret to report, there is no second’, or “Ma’am, there is no second” the response to Queen Victoria beautifully sums up the cruel reality of two-party politics., coming second...
by Cimino | 14 Aug 2017 | Climate mobilisation, MMP, Parliament
It’s 30 years since David Lange belatedly called taihoawait; do not hurry. Lange, in fact, said it was ‘time for a cup of tea’. His Labour Party caucus cohorts had unleashed the neoliberal onslaught that, amongst other tragedies, precipitated New Zealand’s ongoing...
by Cimino | 9 Aug 2017 | Four waters, Local, Local board, Regional governance, Representation, Warkworth
Twin tweaks to conquer local-democracy deficit Status quo would be the less satisfactory option. Corner to corner, the Rodney Local Board area stretches 86 kilometres—a 165-kilometre, 2-hour drive by road, plus at least an hour’s walk at either end. In the context of...
