By DaveForCouncil, on June 1st, 2025 
Let’s demand courage. Vision. Long-term thinking. A mayor and councillors who are eager to work together for all of us — motivated not just by managing the now, but by building a strong foundation for the future. Let’s be honest about the challenges, and clear-eyed about the kind of community we want to be. Let’s vote for leaders who can hold this nuance — honestly, logically, and compassionately. Because ultimately, the four wellbeings weren’t just policy. They were a reminder of what really matters. And whether they stay in law, they must stay in our decisions. . . . → Read More: Opinion: Yes, let’s not forget what councils really do. Becs Mackay
By DaveForCouncil, on May 23rd, 2025
In the leadup to National’s first budget I protested that the planned tax cuts were unaffordable and stood on a roundabout in my home town and let everyone know I was concerned. The support was just incredible. Soon I was joined by more and more people and we made a big noise predicting that everything that has happened was the only outcome from such disastrous policy. The Postpone The Tax Cuts Facebook Page remains a valuable historical resource recording how many people predicted the disaster that is this National led coalition government would be. . . . → Read More: Postpone The Tax Cuts Campaign – 2024
By DaveForCouncil, on May 21st, 2025
In 2025, as we look towards Nicola Willis’s second budget it seems everyone is talking about National’s unaffordable $14 billion tax cuts.
In 2024, Whakatane was doing more than talk about them.
The Postpone The Tax Cuts campaign by the Whakatane Act Local group were taking to the streets of our hometown calling for . . . → Read More: Wasteful Spending and Fiscal Responsibility, Coalition Style
By DaveForCouncil, on May 19th, 2025 
Every council in Aotearoa agrees and every economist accepts that government keeping the GST portion of our rates is a ‘tax on a tax’. Government needs to get back to basics and stop treating ratepayers like a bottomless ATM . Return the $1.1 billion GST component of rates back to councils. . . . → Read More: Government Needs To Return $1 Billion GST To Councils
By DaveForCouncil, on May 16th, 2025 
I think we are all focussed as a community, as a world even, on what divides us and what we disagree on. We stand far apart from each other and shout across a huge divide, no one prepared to give an ideological centimetre to their opponents. But what good is that doing? . . . → Read More: Why Support Dave When You Don’t Agree With Him?
By DaveForCouncil, on May 9th, 2025 
The solution has to be based on users of the service and I think the proactiveness of the Chamber of Commerce in this leads to the solution. At the same time all users will most likely have to accept less competitive fares. The first step is with the airline itself. The airline has to have a business friendly timetable at the heart of a solution however. Then I think the business community needs to step up and form some sort of compact with Air Chathams where business users agree to pay ‘business class’ tickets. These are the same tickets as regular passengers but are more expensive and offer Air Chathams practical support from those most able to provide it, to the people who will benefit from it the most – our businesses. . . . → Read More: Air Chathams and Whakatane
By DaveForCouncil, on May 8th, 2025 
Gearing up for the local body election campaign where I am running and have the opposition scared witless. A local poll was held last weekend by my opponents and I was winning so my opponents deleted my name off it. The wont be able to do that in the real world.
Follow me on . . . → Read More: Connect On Instagram
By DaveForCouncil, on May 1st, 2025
If you have spent about 5 minutes on the pages that are promoting the National led coalition government’s local council agenda you’ll have heard them swoon when the PM addressed the local council conference and told them his lot were going to amend the law and insist councils stopped doing things other than collecting . . . → Read More: Government calls on mayors to boost school attendance and wellbeing
By DaveForCouncil, on April 24th, 2025 
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Australia is now in the thick of a federal election cycle, the United States just came out of one and in New Zealand, the fallout from the last national election has brought into focus a part of the political machine often out of view.
To a voter’s naked eye, the impact . . . → Read More: How Atlas Network amassed a global network of free market think tanks and reached into Australia and New Zealand
By DaveForCouncil, on April 23rd, 2025
My coalition aligned opponents are forever finding new electoral promises that they say will reduce our rates, but they never cost them.
In reality they’re just regurgitating decades old neoliberal nonsense that, at the end of the day, just hands over public assets to private enterprise operators.
Our holiday park, something that is central . . . → Read More: Government In Wellington Are Treating Ratepayers Like A Bottomless ATM
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