The Ombudsman investigated eight councils to see whether they were following the right processes in their meetings and workshops and says it is in the...
The new Government needs to ensure it doesn’t repeat the costly infrastructure decisions of the previous one, warns Peter Dunne. It is a time-honoured ploy...
Grant Duncan, the Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, at Massey University. A commentator on public affairs, his most recent book is The Problem of...
By Brett Crombie, director, Straightedge Accounting. Now that the dust has settled on the election [2020] and the new Government has been sworn in, it...
What does the ‘well-being budget’ mean for councils? Peter McKinlay goes looking for evidence of government’s transformational thinking. For, without that, he says well-being will...
The State Services Commission’s review of the Protected Disclosures Act 2000 is evidence that speaking up is going to become more important to those operating...
Wellington City Council can now provide, at a glance, data on buildings in six pre-1930s character areas. It’s all thanks to a GIS initiative. Character...