One ministry to rule them all
The Government is creating a new Ministry of Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport (MCERT) that will absorb the Ministry for the Environment, the Ministry of...
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Lake drained in clam war
Lake Rotomanu near New Plymouth is being drained over four days to get rid of the invasive fresh-water clam Corbicula fluminea. The clam was found in...
We need a ‘collaborative’ Parliament
It was ironic that the very week [in December 2025] former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer lambasted Parliament and recent governments for too much rushed...
Infrastructure from the top
Chris Bishop, the Minister for Infrastructure and Housing, spoke at the LGNZ Infrastructure Symposium in June. “I don’t need to tell an audience as smart...
Scandinavian ambitions with a US attitude to tax
Political commentator and analyst Bryce Edwards comments on the 2024 Budget. To understand the Budget, it’s worth returning to a statement made in 2020 by...
A Perspective on the 2024 Budget
Notwithstanding all the usual pre-Budget media hype it is worth remembering that Budgets seldom defeat governments. By Peter Dunne. Game-changing Budgets, like Sir Roger Douglas’s...
PWA land valuation is tricky business
Jenny Turner and Mike Doesburg, Partners at Wynn Williams who have expertise in negotiations and acquisition of land under the PWA. Valuing land that is...
Providing for oversize transport
Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, CEO, Heavy Haulage Association. The specialist oversize sector of the road transport industry involves the movement of large indivisible items on transporters for...
Supreme Court green lights climate change case
Frana Divich, Partner, Heaney and Partners. On 7 February 2024 the Supreme Court allowed a novel climate change case called Smith v Fonterra Co-Operative Group...
Are our air quality standards working
In the Local Government magazine archives we found a press release from the Environment Minister at the time, Marian Hobbs, who in August 2005 claimed...