Myth Busting The Housing Accord
Groan when Government MPs think in one dimension to a problem One of the flaws of our Westminster Parliamentary system New Zealand has is our strong Party base system that occupies our Parliament. Long story short; the MP’s of a said Party basically tow the line of the party leadership and drone out what … Read more
This and That – AGAIN
Not Again… Where is Progressive and REASON with The Clunker Debate You know when something gets flagged on Facebook more than three times it is worth considering rather urgently. I had commented on the polarisation and slack Main Stream Media report on The Unitary Plan in my “This and That” post: THIS … Read more
Unitary Plan Ready for the Community
March is When WE Get OUR SAY On the Unitary Plan Feedback has been coming across the usual channels on the draft Unitary Plan which was announced on Wednesday that the plan has been finalised – in a sense that the draft is ready to go out for the first round of (informal) … Read more
WHO WILL STAND AGAINST LEN (CTD)
More Spin than the Spin Cycle on my Washing Machine After the SPINNING THE SPIN and WHO WILL STAND AGAINST LEN posts here at BR:AKL, the Herald picks up Kiwiblog‘s original post on our Mayor’s spin doctors and decided to write a story about it: From the NZ Herald: Mayor heavy on ‘spin doctors’ By Bernard Orsman BernardOrsman 5:30 AM Tuesday … Read more
Who Will Stand Against Len
No Alternative Candidate to Run Against Incumbent Mayor? [Note from Admin: More to this debate has been added since I wrote the original post this morning. As a result rather than writing a new post I will add to the bottom on the debate as of 14:45 this afternoon] After DPF’s Kiwiblog ran … Read more
Spinning The Spin
Mayor’s Office has Six Spin Doctors? I kid you not in the fact that the Mayor’s Office with an annual budget of over $3.2 million (of our ratepayers’ dollars) just hired a sixth spin doctor according to Kiwiblog: From DPF’s Kiwiblog: Len’s gaggle of spin doctors February 16th, 2013 at 3:00 pm by David … Read more
Draft Unitary Plan Nearly Ready
Draft Unitary Plan Has a Date WITH THE SHREDDER - IF I HAD MY WAY! Deputy Mayor and in-charge of overseeing the development of The Unitary Plan – Penny Hulse released a photo and comment (which was made in Public mode) on The Draft Unitary Plan thus far before it is released in March for … Read more
An Auckland Housing Redux
Battle on Housing Goes On BR:AKL Has Viable Alternative Urban Land Use “Policy” Already And I bet we are all sick of the Housing Affordability Debate swinging from one extreme to the other and back again; both at central and local government levels, both by the centre-left (social authoritarian section) and centre-right (neo-conservatism). … Read more
Honesty and Integrity Part Two
Democracy Won – Sort Of Result Needed? – Didn’t Happen And so Monday has been and gone, the issue for Howick Local Board basically being kicked into touch until the Local Government Elections in September/October. For just under two hours I watched as the issue of removing the Local Board Deputy Chair went … Read more
