Dumb tunnels and dumb laws
Wayne Brown, engineer and Mayor of Auckland. As mayor of Auckland I am fighting a constant battle with Wellington bureaucrats to enable Aucklanders to actually...
Tag : Auckland Council
Infrastructure – the elephant in the urban intensification room
Since this article was published in the November 202 issue of Local Government magazine, Auckland suffered a major flooding disaster over the city’s anniversary weekend,...
Senseless race to zero
By Mike Yardley writer and media commentator. As China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam crack on building six hundred more coal-fired power plants, fear not,...
Holidays Act compliance – the red flags
Article supplied by tax specialist company, Grant Thornton NZ. The Holidays Act 2003 is one of the single hardest pieces of legislation for employers to...
New Watercare chief – from air force to water
Watercare’s new CEO Jon Lamonte was so new to his role that when Mary Searle Bell spoke to him, he was still isolating in quarantine...
Community participation in resource management
By Barry Mosley, principal planner/director, Auckland Council The Resource Management Act has governed the management of land, air and water in New Zealand since 1991....
Fixing local government: get the basics right
By Monique Poirier, campaigns manager, Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance. The case for local government boils down to the belief that a local community has a better...
15 things you need to know about the Resource Legislation Amendment Act & iwi participation
The Mana Whakahono a Rohe (MWR) provisions are among the controversial law changes that delayed the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill. They give iwi rights to...
7 smart digital moves by councils
How to boost biosecurity, recruit more cost-effectively, deliver news, consult more widely and build intranets that staff really want to use? Councils share the technologies...