by Cluny Macpherson | 16 Sep 2007 | Representation
L e t t e r As one who encouraged you to stand for Rodney District Council, it seemed to me that the best reason for having you elected was to have a committed advocate for the harbour and its catchment in that body. As a councillor, I believed you could use your very...
by Cimino | 16 Sep 2007 | Local
My first action was to seek advice. I was considering standing for Rodney District Council, and sought the counsel of Graham Nielson who was my supervisor when I was employed by the council to computer-model Helensville’s water reticulation—the good old days when the...
by Cimino | 16 Sep 2007 | STV
Updated 31 August 2019to provide the more positive scenario likely for Dr Climate Action, 12 years hence Five friends meet up to see a movie. Screening is a romance, a horror, a comedy and an arthouse film. The friends hold a verbal ballot, agreeing to go with the...
by Cimino | 15 Sep 2007 | STV
Safety in numbers. Unlike Wellington City and seven other local bodies, Rodney District Council and the rest of the herd have clung to first-past-the-post. The council, when rejecting preference voting prior to the 2004 election, denied the community the courtesy of...
by Cimino | 31 Jan 2006 | Parliament
Failure to embrace a new flag in the past bought Aotearoa a power of trouble. When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, by default the national flag became the Union Jack. Eight years earlier, in 1832, the group of northern tribes that became known as the United Tribes...
by Stephen W Todd | 1 Feb 2003 | STV
Introduced by Cimino 2007; updated 2018 Stephen Todd played the pivotal role in the introduction of single transferable voting to Aotearoa. The road to local-body electoral reform was long, hard and heroic, but New Zealanders and their district and regional...
