Hide would go for principles, Sharples would stay for baubles
Rodney Hide has said that having Maori seats on the Auckland Supercity council would go completely against his party’s principles. So, he would […]
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Will Key fold?
Interesting times for Key. Rodney is trying to wag the dog over Maori seats. He’s also trying it on over the “smacking referendum” […]
Not yours to sell
This video from Phil Twyford, Labour’s spokesperson on the campaign to make sure that Rodney Hide is prevented from buggering Auckland by selling […]
Left needs to unite in Supercity race
A UMR poll out yesterday suggests that Len Brown, currently mayor of Manukau, would be the Left candidate with the best chance of winning […]
UMR has Len Brown ahead of Banks
UMR’s just released a poll showing Manukau mayor Len Brown as the preferred mayor of the Auckland Super City, slightly ahead of John […]
‘Supercity’ Select Committee Submissions Workshop
The University of Auckland’s Political Studies Department is hosting a free public workshop presented by Rob Thomas to assist people interested in making submissions to […]
Key’s surprise for Aucklanders
Analysis by Rhema Vaithianathan, which hasn’t itself been critiqued but has seen her subjected to the typical vicious personal attacks from National, shows […]
Watercare – minons of the dictator
Rodney Hide, in his role of Minister for Local Government, has made himself the petty dictator of Auckland’s future. Therefore he is ultimately […]
Fight for Auckland’s local democracy
Red Alert, the Labour MPs’ blog, has a list of upcoming meetings on the supercity. Mt Albert – 5.30pm Tuesday 9 June, Owairaka […]
The Tory nose-dive roundup
I never seen a government crash so quickly, so hard. The Standard was saying before the election that Key was a two-faced facade […]
More opposition than ever to supercity
While the mishandling of the Worth scandal grabs all the headlines, the mishandling of the supercity process is still grinding on. And Aucklanders […]
General Election in 2010?
National promised to do a lot of things in their first term such as: Not selling state assets. Keeping WFF and other entitlements […]
Submit!
Over at No Right Turn, Idiot/Savant writes:- The Auckland Governance Committee has called for submissions on the Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill. Two […]
Granny Herald – getting more irrelevant
This morning’s NZ Herald was interesting. I picked it up while waiting for the bus, rather than reading it on the iPhone in […]
Resistance Photography
Some great photos from yesterday’s hikoi from Squirrel. Click the thumbnails below to view photos, or see the whole set at the Resistance […]
Reader photos
Thanks to a reader for sending in these photos from today’s hikoi: If anyone else has photos or youtube send them in and […]
Hikoi video
The Herald Online has some great video from today’s hikoi here and here, and some photos here. The videos really are worth a […]
Can’t you play off to one side?
Last year a small number of truck companies held the ‘truck strike’, they got 4000 trucks to jam the CBDs of every major […]
Let them eat oysters
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Thousands of protesters take to the streets of Auckland […]
Talking tough
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Today in the Herald John Key is talking tough, […]
What’s the point again?
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Accepted truths are funny things. For example, everyone has […]
Select committee charade
John Armstrong seems to be shaking off his Key honeymoon, and has written a detailed and interesting piece on Carter’s role chairing the […]
Hikoi route
Tumeke has put together this handy map of tomorrow’s hikoi with the meeting places across Auckland. You can view the full size version […]
Auckland’s new overlord
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity Monday 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Sometimes democracy’s a pain in the arse. So Aucklanders […]
Nat MPs distancing themselves from Super City
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity Monday 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] National’s Paul Hutchison, whose Hunua electorate lies in Franklin, […]
National’s “supercity” policy lies
Remember – March against National’s undemocractic supercity Monday 25th, noon, Queen St Interesting to look back at National’s local government and Auckland policy before the election. […]
Last night’s Super City meeting
I attended the Paula Bennett-John Carter Supercity meeting yesterday evening in Kelston. This was one of the hastily arranged series of meetings arranged […]
Join the Super City hikoi
IHI Aotearoa has put out the call for Aucklanders to join their hikoi against the Government’s undemocratic Super City proposal on Monday, May […]
Why Lee is banned from interviews
Rumour has it Melissa has been banned from giving formal interviews by National’s leadership but what’s the harm in answering a few questions […]
Bye bye democracy
So what is this Transition Board thing that National and Act created by ramming through legislation in a huge rush last week last […]
Government for the people?
The Herald recently ran an excellent piece by Dr Emma Davies and Elizabeth Rowe (from the Institute of Public Policy at AUT) – […]
The ‘Rankin Effect’
Why is the National government delaying its announcement of the Supercity transitional agency? The Rankin Effect. That’s the flinch you get when your […]
Transition Agency knocked back
Stuff is reporting that cabinet has failed to approve the make up of the Auckland Supercity transition agency. In case you’re out of […]
No credible argument against referendum
This morning Radio NZ ran a report on the increasing grassroots opposition to the Government’s supercity plans. In the interview that followed it […]
NACT prefer to have a filibuster
The ongoing filibuster is highlighting the intransigent nature of the NACT government. NACT ministers are getting annoyed by having to remain at the […]
The Maori Party’s commitment to democracy
In an epic last-ditch defence of Aucklanders’ right to be consulted on the removal of their democracy, Labour and the Greens are currently […]