Does ‘ticking the Maori box’ make a difference? Kataraina O’Brien and Fiona McTavish are from the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, the first council in the...
Peter McKinlay announces a new resource to generate research and inform debate for the sector. Hamilton City Council, Masterton and Waipa District Councils and Rotorua...
Councils need to start considering the representation arrangements that will apply at the next local authority elections in October 2019. This involves 56 councils that...
Allowing iwi authorities to participate in resource management and decision-making processes is not the same as handing decision-making over to unelected parties, says Brookfields Lawyers...
Māori have long argued for their own wards and constituencies within local government. Now a paper by Victoria University of Wellington’s Maria Bargh outlines new...
Good chemistry, frequent communication and helping a new mayor get to grips with the practicalities of their new role go a long way towards creating...
In the country’s largest ever bribery case, former Auckland Transport senior manager Murray Noone and Projenz MD Stephen Borlase were recently sentenced in the Auckland...
By Bill Conroy, local governmentite So the public has spoken. The elderly have once again ruined the outcome of many local authority election results across...