Tougher government scrutiny for infrastructure
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...
Category : Governance
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...
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...
A stronger role for Te Maruata: Boosting the involvement of Maori in local government
Maori elected members, and many non-Maori members, have expressed a desire to see tangata whenua play a greater strategic role in local government in
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9 years a leader: Lawrence Yule’s legacy
Lawrence Yule has steered the local government sector for the past nine years in his role as president of Local Government New Zealand. On the...