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Improving Government asset management

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 Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop spoke at the 2025 Infrastructure Asset Management Professionals Association (Apopo) congress in Christchurch about our infrastructure asset management challenge. “We need...
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Are councils ‘Treaty’ partners?

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By Mike Doesburg and Emma Burns, lawyers specialising in local government and environmental law at Wynn Williams. This year, considerable debate has been had about...
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Wellington’s mayoral prospects

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There was an old saying doing the rounds in Rome when the Cardinals gathered to elect a successor to Pope Francis: “He who enters the...
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Parliamentary game-playing

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A tense and intriguing political chess game is currently being played in Parliament’s Privileges Committee, explains Peter Dunne. On the face of it, the issue...
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The case for a smaller government executive

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Based on a speech David Seymour gave to the Tauranga Business Chamber last month where he floated an idea about how we could transform government...
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It won’t happen overnight

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According to Aggregate and Quarry Association (AQA) CEO Wayne Scott, councils face some interim, if not longer-term, challenges with supplying quarry materials for local roading...
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Rates will never be enough

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Councils need the power to raise money in other ways, writes Guy Charton, Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology. Republished from the Conversation, April 2025,...
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We all face the same pressures and restraints

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Small local councils struggle against near-impossible odds and outside criticism, writes Tania Gibson, the Grey District Mayor. As Mayor of Grey District, I’ve seen firsthand...
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Smart City lessons from Taiwan

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Image : At Smart City Summit & Expo in Taipei (from left): Mike Manson; Grant Smith – Mayor of Palmerston North; and Sarah Morris –...
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Leadership in an era of cost-savings

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By David Hammond, Head of Consulting & Public Sectors, Tribe. Personally, I was not horrified by the removal of the four well-beings from the Local...