by Cimino | 21 Oct 2018 | Committee, Meetings and celebrations, Term of office
agm tagged to 14 November town-hall talk To save dragging some of the same folk out twice in one month, Mahurangi Action is tagging its annual general meeting to next month’s Warkworth Town Hall Talk. This is not to suggest that the society is permanently abandoning...
by Cimino | 25 Jun 2018 | Climate strategy, Coalition democratisation, STV
Corrected 30 June 2018; 16 August 2018 Mayor Goff was elected by barely 18% of registered voters. Len Brown at least, won 47.8% of votes cast, but only because voters were then still in the dark about his grubby use of Auckland Council property. But the bigger crime...
by Cimino | 8 Jun 2018 | Campaign Finance Reform, Climate action, Climate mobilisation, Democracy, Nuclear power, Rail with trail, Transport and climate action
Visiting Aotearoa for all the right reasons Neither of New Zealand’s two main industries is currently sustainable. Its once-vaunted agricultural industry, a proud part of the green revolution, is now a climate delinquent, due to the white gold-rush. Tourism, which...
by Cimino | 24 May 2018 | Democracy index, Election turnout, Term of office, Youth voting
You say you want a constitution and less democracy What’s good for doctors of medicine, it would appear, doesn’t apply to doctors of law. The imperative to first do no harm is being violated in the latest proposal by Dr Andrew Butler and Sir Geoffrey Palmer qc...
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,...
