Local democracy challenge
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...
Category : Governance
Elections are over – let the triennium begin
By Mike Doesburg, a partner at Wynn Williams who acts for councils on a wide range of local government and environmental issues. The reality of...
New Government, new taxes?
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...
The role of a governance professional explained
By Steve McDowell, Meeting and Governance Solutions. A new councillor once asked me; “who do I go to if I want to know something in...
Local by default
Local governance in Wiltshire, UK Anyone wanting to see how the localism model could play out in New Zealand would do well to look at...
How much well-being was in that budget?
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...
Blow the whistle on bad behaviour
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...
GIS to the rescue
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...
Yet more power to the people
Localism now A citizens’ jury in action The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation VicHealth is a statutory authority in the Australian state of Victoria. Last year...
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...