Cultural heritage information and councils
By Amanda Cossham and Sarah Welland, lecturers at the Open Polytechnic of NZ and co-directors of Lindisfarne Information Consulting. Local authorities manage cultural and historic...
Tag : Governance
Partnership platitudes
By Peter Dunne. Just three weeks ago [early October 2021] the Minister of Local Government received the interim report of the Future for Local Government...
The drawbacks of Swiss localism
By Daniel Kübler, professor at the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Centre of Democracy Studies of the University of Zurich. It was...
Shaken and stirred: Infrastructure challenges provoke thirst for a cocktail of changes
Nowhere, in recent times, has it been more clear that something – okay lots of things – has got to give if local authorities are...
Post-election trauma: How newly-elected mayors and CEs can build common ground
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...
Local authority elections: When people don’t vote
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...
What kind of democracy?
When it comes to local government, do people think they have a representative or a participatory democracy? Elizabeth Hughes explains why this matters. It’s been...
How good is Auckland governance?
A new report, commissioned by the Committee for Auckland, provides a good summary of pluses and minuses half a decade after Auckland was amalgamated into...
Rotorua’s Wood First Policy
To what extent should a local authority lead its regional economy? Jane Arnott says Rotorua Lakes Council is doing just that with its Wood First...
Best ways to co-govern natural resources
As debate continues to hot up around who “owns”, controls and manages New Zealand’s natural resources, the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) has released a...