Crying wolf on emergencies
Not everyone has got excited over the Government’s ‘climate emergency declaration’ and say the nation has more pressing issues. “When Governments and international organisations are...
Category : Features
In the club
According to Bruce Lochore, although the New Zealand Motor Caravanning Association is a professional body, it is still a club at heart, and that is...
Let’s talk about the future of local government
Stuart Crosby is the president of Local Government New Zealand, a current Bay of Plenty Regional councillor, and was the Tauranga Mayor from 2004 to...
Providing certainty for farmers in the Lake Taupo catchment
Waikato Regional Council has been using Overseer since 2006 as part of a world-leading project to protect the water quality of Lake Taupo. As part...
Using an interactive digital story
Delivering significant regeneration projects at scale is a massive undertaking, particularly when it is a jigsaw of complexity. By James Reddish, WSP Technical Principal Catchment...
Blueprint for humane cat treatment
Local Authorities are confronted with the responsibility of developing proposals for the management of cats, largely due to pressures placed upon them by the conservation...
LEST WE FORGET
Wellington City Council marks 100 years since Gallipoli. By councillor Andy Foster. One hundred years on, it is almost impossible to imagine a repetition of...
In praise of good work
So many senior people in local government have told us how much they rely on the all-round wonderfulness of their executive and personal assistants that...
The way we work
Auckland Council has an enormous opportunity to change the way it handles employment relations in the next five to 10 years. Chief executive Stephen Town...