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Ratepayers need a real say in council reform (opens the original)
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Rotorua Lakes Council meets to discuss its Head Start local government reform options. Photo / Mathew Nash Mayors and ratepayers have good reason to be frustrated. The Government gave councils three months to propose changes to local government. Eighteen proposals arrived in August. Ministers said Cabinet would decide in September which could move to detailed design. On September 24, they put that decision off until early 2027. Councils had already spent staff time and ratepayers’ money meeting
Rotorua's Head Start process lacks democratic legitimacy (opens the original)
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The minister should reject Rotorua Lakes Council’s Head Start position as democratically compromised, Reynold Macpherson writes. Photo / NZME Rotorua Lakes Council’s handling of the Government’s Head Start reform process has a legitimacy problem that cannot be dismissed as the unavoidable consequence of a compressed timetable. The deeper problem is that there was enough time for some people to be involved upstream. The council’s own report records the “valuable and significant contribution” of T
Local government needs elected executives, not mayors shadowed by CEOs (opens the original)
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New Zealand needs fewer institutions, clearer responsibilities, stronger elected scrutiny, transparent finances and executives whom voters can directly hold to account, writes Reynold Macpherson. Photo / Andrew Warner When I served on Rotorua Lakes Council from 2019 to 2022, I discovered how far local government could depart from the democratic processes I had expected. Policy development was too often controlled upstream by the mayor and senior officials. Councillors formally voted, but officia
The questions that will decide the election (opens the original)
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There is a difference between an issue that generates strong feeling and one that shifts a large number of undecided votes, Reynold Macpherson writes. Photo / NZME Election campaigns encourage distraction. Parties prefer to fight on issues that suit them. Media organisations reward conflict, novelty and personality. Coalition partners sharpen their differences to protect their own vote. Culture-war issues can dominate headlines for days. But elections are usually decided by something more basic.
Rotorua businesses asked for understanding, not a lecture - Reynold Macpherson (opens the original)
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at a Rotorua Business Chamber event last week. Photo / Michelle Cutelli Photography Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s confrontation with Rotorua business leaders exposed more than a communications failure. In my view, it revealed the hypocrisy of politicians who lecture small businesses about self-reliance while central and local governments routinely subsidise selected industries, companies and social policies. At a Rotorua Business Chamber breakfast, chief exe
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