“Christchurch Mayor Phil Mauger backed rates capping, and in that same period surged 19 points to become the most popular big city mayor. If that’s not an endorsement of rates capping, I don’t know what is,” James Ross said.
All government social service contracts for the able-bodied should not only be tied to measurable outcomes that reduce state dependency, but lucrative race-based funding streams must be eliminated as well.
As New Zealanders fill their shopping baskets in the coming months, it’s worth remembering that our food security depends on the resilience of those who produce it. And with a nation to feed, giving up simply isn’t an option.
Hamilton City Council is only one council being subjected to this kind of blackmail. Other councils are facing it too.
Our over-65 pensioners aren’t a burden: they’re holding New Zealand together.
Experts say the public was misled about ongoing technical issues, including problematic thrusters and repeated system failures.
This is an adjustment – a new explanation – because the economy is not improving anywhere near as fast as he had hoped or it needs to. At half-time National is struggling to make a real difference to voter’s lives. That’s what the polls are saying.
Rebecca Styles, investigative team leader at Consumer NZ, told Chris Lynch Media the increases are part of a wider trend across the industry.
More money will be channeled to ever-growing bureaucracies whose sole function, whose only reason for existence, is to identify theoretical threats that can be used to close economies, remove the livelihoods of others, and extract more of their remaining wealth.
Your council is quietly guaranteeing other councils’ debts. Discover how local governments are gambling with your rates – and your sovereignty.
