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Vote for Dave Stewart for Whakatāne / Ōhope Ward Vote for Dave Stewart for Whakatāne / Ōhope Ward 1/. What makes me the best person to represent the Whakatāne / Ōhope ward? You can’t keep politics out of politics, and I bring a lifetime of real-world political action, understanding and advocacy to the . . . → Read More: Vote For Dave Stewart 
Source 1News PDF While the National led coalition government is busy telling local councils how to spend money, they’re spending $70 million doing exactly what they’re telling councils not to. The Government has announced a $70 million investment package aimed at supercharging New Zealand’s events and tourism sectors, introducing new money to attract global . . . → Read More: Article: Govt unveils $70m fund to lure global acts, support major events  Comments are closed  Dave For Council 25, Election 25, From The Press, News Clippings, TV  council reform, LGNZ, Wellbeing, whakatane v wellington Source Charlie Mitchell PDF ANALYSIS: The price of clean water will not be shared evenly. As councils plan to pump $50 billion into water infrastructure over the coming decade, some households face paying thousands of dollars more per year, while others escape with only modest rises. The figures, revealed in council plans submitted to . . . → Read More: Article: The great water divide: Winners, losers, and the price households will pay Comments are closed Dave For Council 25, Election 25, From The Press, News Clippings, Three Waters 3 waters, rates increases, unaffordability A central criticism he made of New Zealand was the erosion of Parliamentary processes by successive governments – particularly the use of urgency for passing legislation, by which normal processes scrutinising bills are skipped. “If you want to process a great deal of legislation, the Parliament’s not sitting enough to deal with it,” said Palmer, noting that drafting legislation effectively was time-consuming and difficult. . . . → Read More: Article: Former PM Sir Geoffrey Palmer’s stark warning about NZ’s democracy I was invited by the Whakatāne District Council to record a video and submit a profile statement for the Local Body Election. I was pretty careful how I wrote the Profile Statement but I chose to do the video 'off the cuff' and not prepare for it and just answer the questions direct from my . . . → Read More: Whakatāne District Council Profile Statement & Video: Make Whakatāne A Happy Place Comments are closed Election 25, Video council reform, rates increases, Whakatāne Election 2025, whakatane v wellington 
Rates are going through the roof and people are struggling. Even so, I’m going to say something that most mayoral candidates won’t admit. Rates are going to keep going up and anyone who promises that they can stop that happening is lying to you. The Government would sack the council and install commissioners if we did what it would take to stop rates increasing. . . . → Read More: Opinion: What the heck is happening with rates?
Since the election of the National-led coalition government, 33,000 more people were unemployed, we’re in the deepest recession in 30 years (aside from Covid), record numbers of people are needing government support to get by, free prescriptions have been cut, half-priced public transport has been cut, food bank funding has been cut and all this despite borrowing $15 billion dollars to fund tax cuts that we were told would fix the cost of living crisis. While the Government shovelled billions to big tobacco and mining companies, 2700 businesses went bankrupt in the last year, and to top it off I read that Nicola Willis burned $671 million from the Bank of Taxpayers on no new ferries. . . . → Read More: Letter: Who’s to blame for dormant town centre?
Source Whakatāne district councillors have expressed surprise that cemeteries, public toilets, animal control, liquor licences and consents are not considered core services for councils by the Government. “This is bizarre,” councillor Nandor Tanczos said. “The (Coalition Government’s) list of core services doesn’t include a whole bunch of functions that the Government itself requires that . . . → Read More: Article: List of core services ‘bizarre’ – Tanczos Comments are closed Election 25, From The Press, News Clippings council reform, Wellbeing, Whakatāne Election 2025, whakatane v wellington National’s hidden agenda was unaffordable rates. And now we are having to address it. National’s supporters in this campaign here in Whakatāne are telling us to pay for National’s $440 million water alternatives we must sell our publicly owned assets and privatise everything that moves. This means we will pay the same of higher rates, and then pay again for the services our rates used to cover. . . . → Read More: Don’t Vote For Wellington – Vote For Whakatāne Comments are closed Election 25, Three Waters affordability, council reform, rates increases, unaffordability, Whakatāne Election 2025, whakatane v wellington Asked again if water costs would be cheaper, he said, “I’m out of time”, and walked into the debating chamber. . . . → Read More: Article: Government no longer saying its water reforms will be cheaper than Labour’s Comments are closed Dave For Council 25, Election 25, From The Press, News Clippings, Three Waters council reform, LGNZ, rates, rates increases, unaffordability |
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