The Councils’ Gold‐Plated White Elephants
This is exactly how NZTA and councils work. The secret contract is the Local Government (Rating) Act and your customers are the ratepayers.
Andrew Bydder
When Staff Massage the Data
NZTA and councils programmed fake data used in public consultation to justify lowered speed limits.
Eager Beavers Beat Govt Experts
This shows how wasteful and dangerous bureaucracy is. Seven years of environmental protection was lost.
Councils Have to Break the Spending Addiction
I have a warning: councils are continuing to spend and make it worse. We have to stop them. Perhaps the message should be that when the shit hits the fan, we will make sure those councillors who got us into this mess lose their houses first.
How to Fix Our Councils
A guide to help concerned citizens organise for the next election. The system is broken.
How to Fix Our Councils
A guide to help concerned citizens organise for the next election. The system is broken.
How to Fix Our Councils
A guide to help concerned citizens organise for the next election. The system is broken.
How to Fix Our Councils
A guide to help concerned citizens organise for the next election. The system is broken.
How to Fix Our Councils
A guide to help concerned citizens organise for the next election. The system is broken.
They Are Out of Control
There are solutions. The way councils manage projects seems to be designed to make everything cost at least twice as much.
Council Admits Cr Bydder Was Right
Thanks to all the Cambridge people who stood up with me and everyone from around the country who supported us. I will keep fighting.
Hamilton Leads the World
The public need a new crew who are prepared to trim the sails, change direction and make more than a few of the old guard walk the plank.
It’s Been a Time Coming
“I come to the dangers posed by the increasing entrenchment of the treaty in statute. The treaty itself contains no principles which can usefully guide government or courts.” – Lange
Kangaroos Are Hopping Mad
Withholding evidence is just one of a long list of legal breaches that amount to deliberate corruption.
An MSM Headline Lies, Again
The government imposes an obligation only to encourage Māori to participate in the decision-making process, which means they get a chance to vote like the rest of us.