Tikanga 101: Don't diminish the mana of your audience (full of community, city and regional leaders)
Te Tiriti 101: Māori did not cede sovereignty to the crown
LG 101: Councils core service responsibilities are not limited to rubbish collection, pipe repairs, and potholes 1/3
By the end of today 44 of 46 councils will have retained/reaffirmed their Māori wards. A clear signal that local government values what Māori wards bring to decision making.
We've just improved on our single largest System 002 catch record. On October 24, we extracted 10,755 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after less than five days.
Sad that it took Jacinda Ardern’s resignation to spark a widespread discussion about hatred and misogyny towards women in politics. People such as
@nealejones
have been continually raising the normalisation of such abhorrent behaviour, time for a national discussion is overdue.
Can we be honest for a second, if omicron gets through our border over summer we are completely fucked, we won't be able to get boosters out in time to gain a reasonable immunity and we'll face a wave like the rest of the world already has over and over
Cracks me up how Mayor Jepson of Kaipara thought he was leading the way by calling an extraordinary meeting to disestablish first and then almost noone else followed. 😂
I don’t know anything about television but it seems like quite a feat to have pulled off Super Saturday. The logistics and coordination must have been immense with such a short timeframe to prepare, tino pai 👏
Parks and Recreation
Waste and Drainage
Water Services
People and Capability
Building Control
District Development
District Plan
Health and Bylaws
RMA Consents
Democracy and Assurance
Strategic Planning
Mãori Outcomes
Roading
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Eg Whangārei District Council is responsible for:
Civil Defence
Community Development
Customer Services
Libraries
Venues and Events
Business Support
Communications
Finance
ICT
Revenue
Infrastructure Capital Programmes
Infrastructure Development
Infrastructure Planning
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Had a builder lined up for a house for 2 years, kept in close contact over the last 12 months. Sent them the documents for pricing and they just pulled out with a one line email, sure things are tough for builders but that is properly shitty form
✅ Questionable AI ads
✅ Prescriptions $
✅ Super age up
✅ MDRS flip flop
✅ English only roadsigns
✅‘Mothers and Fathers’
✅ Contraception $
National has had a post budget shocker
Mōrena e te whanau, I have just heard from the CEO of WDC, I'm confirmed in second 1419 votes to Greg's 1296 in third place so it is official, I am a Whangārei District Councillor! Thank you all so much, the work begins!
We waited until today to find out, for the first time, that the Prime Minister's Office received information about the March 15 terrorist attack before the massacre took place. Jacinda Ardern should be called to the hearing and asked to explain this appalling lack of transparency
@culturaltutor
Cool how some modern architects now subvert the strict facade and massing rules. This one by Eduardo Francois has all the facade detail and composition but inside the floor plates and planning are all totally different as can be seen by the crisp modern window locations
Struggling to reconcile the Waka Kotahi target to:
'Reduce total kilometres travelled by the light fleet by 20% by 2035 through improved urban form and providing better travel options'
with:
All five harbour crossing options having more lanes for vehicles added to SH1
@RichardHills_
@MaramaDavidson
What world do we live in when Marama faces calls to resign for what she said and this egregious statement goes unpunished
@realDonaldTrump
Actually currently New Zealand is doing far more testing than the USA per head of population. Yet the US has 132 times more deaths and 52 times more cases per head of population than NZ.
@chrisluxonmp
Law is never settled in nz, the government can change any existing legislation they want to. Your comment on abortion being tantamount to murder and O’Conners post just show your true colours before your comms teams jump into damage control, how can your assurances be trusted?
@F1
I think in reality Max's tyres were cooked anyway. Even if he didn't let Lewis past that last time and incur the 5 second penalty Lewis would have won it
@dbseymour
Umm if someone who has covid but doesn’t know it flies to the South Island and it’s at level one you could have a super spreader event, pretty simple isn’t it?
Jacinda just gave $340m to agriculture for the emissions reductions plan, then told America to buy nz beef on Stephen Colbert. Farmers should objectively be stoked with that.
Kia ora e te whanau, I'm thrilled to confirm that I am a new Whangārei District Councillor! I’ll post more soon but for the meantime thank you all so much. The mahi begins!
@ScootFoundation
I find it fascinating that most cities are heirarchical with tall valuable buildings/land in the centre taping down to low density and less valuable on the outskirts. Even density across a city presents a totally difference social and build paradigm which should be explored more
Hutt City Council just voted to reaffirm their decision to have Māori wards. Huge representation from Māori and support across the board from council - bar one abstention. All councillors spoke of the frustration of govt forcing them to do this & costing them more $$