Local Government Magazine

Green spaces clean places Environment

Green spaces clean places

Carbon Landscape Collective founder Craig Pocock was back in this country last year to present the Carbon Landscape Roadshow. Here are his observations. Definition The carbon landscape identifies the carbon cost of design, implementation and management of public spaces and landscapes including the disproportionately high carbon cost of public...
Dates for your Diary Dates for your Diary

Dates for your Diary

2019 April 16 – 18 International Research Society for Public Management 2019 Conference. School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington April 23 – 24   The New Public Management: Vive la Revolution? Massey University Albany, Auckland April 30 GP 19: Masterclasses. Alexandra Park, Auckland May 1 – 3 Green...
Bugger! Election year again Opinion

Bugger! Election year again

SIR BOB HARVEY / HOW TO WIN THE NEXT ELECTION Why must we have postal voting in a digital age? They come around quickly don’t they? No sooner have you got your feet under the council table, a couple of cosy chairmanships, people start to like you, even stop you in the street telling you what a great job you are doing and suddenly it’s...
Fixing training gaps in water sector 3 Waters

Fixing training gaps in water sector

A new independent advisory group which aims to tackle the dire lack of training opportunities in the water and wastewater sector has just been established. The new group, made of water industry representatives, will be administered by Water New Zealand, and will provide much-needed advice on all aspects of water industry education and training....
A question of balance Governance

A question of balance

Central & local government roles The Policy Observatory at Auckland University of Technology has a series of publications on some local government governance issues, which diagnose problems and suggest solutions. In particular, the authors ask what the role for local government is and question how to get the central/local mix right....
Power to the people! Yeah! Governance

Power to the people! Yeah!

But what does that mean? WHAT’S WRONG RIGHT NOW? Central government’s getting a free lunch It passes duties and responsibilities to local government. Then gives it little or no extra funding to do all this extra stuff. Besides the ever-unpopular Resource Management Act (RMA), councils must contend with standards for constructing...
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