The right steps for economic recovery
For the past 18 months or so, the civil construction sector (like other parts of the New Zealand construction industry) has experienced a sharp decline...
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Most countries have a form of regional administration for public and environmental services. Some things, such as river catchments, flood control, public transport services and...
Reflecting on a long career in local government
Image: Paula Southgate and her husband Greg Forsyth at the Peacocke Bridge blessing ceremony in September 2024. Twenty-four years ago, when I stood for election, I...
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Improving Government asset management
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...
Are councils ‘Treaty’ partners?
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...
Wellington’s mayoral prospects
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...
Parliamentary game-playing
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...
The case for a smaller government executive
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...
It won’t happen overnight
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...