by Auckland Regional Council | 26 May 2010 | Local, Local government, Regional governance
Essentially Auckland Regional Council media release 26 May 2010 Rodney District Council is currently calling for submissions on a private member’s bill to become a unitary authority, even though the bill is struggling to find a parliamentary sponsor. Previous...
by Cimino | 19 May 2010 | Regional governance
Saying no to the chairman was not part of the plan. But when he put the question ‘But don’t you consider that this provides the mandate?’, it couldn’t be dodged. This, was the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance. And no, it did not provide a mandate to impose a...
by Cimino | 17 May 2010 | Transport and climate action, Warkworth, Weirs
Dam the Mahurangi River and generate electricity. Such a proposal would face fierce opposition. But what if the dam was already in place; built more than a century since… The damweir is the superior term, given that, as designed, the structure lacks an intentional...
by Cimino | 28 Oct 2009 | Warkworth
They’re billed as Warkworth Walks Worth Doing, though only one is actually in or around Warkworth. There are seven, ranging from the relatively rigorous, to the summit of Tamahunga, to the trattoria-style Italian dinner at Herons Flight, whereby all the walking...
by Cimino | 29 Sep 2009 | Regional governance
If the vote is split, the first regional mayor may all too easily be the abrasive John Banks. The risk of vote splitting could have been avoided, had local government embraced preferential voting—ludicrously, its implementation under the Local Electoral Act 2001 was...
by Cimino | 15 Sep 2009 | Regional governance
The New Zealand Herald story will be very welcome news to friends of the Mahurangi. Particularly those overseas, whose evening television coverage would have struggled to report on the battle of the Pūhoi–Makarau Line, in the absence of actual blood on the floor at...
