Category: This Is Christchurch -> National Governance

Bryce Edward’s Democracy Project blog has this week a post by Camryn Brown implying the above. It’s not clear who Camryn Brown is and what ideological cant they follow, but there is is a lot of form to it with the present Labour government although it’s not always like this with Labour. The Clark administration…

The Labour government has, with considerable merit, proposed a reorganisation of the local government management of water, along with a general review of LG functions. Few councils in the last 30 years with the exception of Auckland have done a good job of managing 3 Waters infrastructure. The problem is that in creating larger councils…

OK. So waiting to write this last part has been good. Sitting back, gathering more information and watching the government make itself look weak and incompetent hasn’t been such a bad idea at all. Whilst we aren’t affiliated with any particular political cause, we draw strength from the knowledge that the Government has become disconnected…

So in the first part of this series we had a look at the history of change in the health system in NZ. The biggest and most important innovation of the past 40 years has been the trend to decentralisation, which was first done in the mid-1980s with Area Health Boards, and latterly with District…

Following up on our article about Housing NZ / Kainga Ora and Otautahi Community Housing Trust’s responsibilities to tenants, we have become aware that in the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act of 2010, Parliament sought to strengthen the requirements of the existing RTA by strengthening an existing requirement that tenants were not allowed to create disturbance…