General Statement of Intent
Auckland is a great city and, demonstrably, one of the best cities in the world. I love this city. I was born here and I’ll probably die here. But Auckland has a problem and it’s a good problem to...
View ArticleRates
Would you trust this council with your money? The Council’s only answer to its financial problems is to endlessly milk the residents and ratepayers dry. Last year an effective average nine point nine...
View ArticleFinancing Infrastructure
We already have the highest level of debt per ratepayer than any other city in the country. This city has a whopping debt of more than seven point two billion dollars that will be more than eleven and...
View ArticleCut Council Staffing
Council has more than eleven and a half thousand staff – eleven and a half thousand people you have to pay for. Two thousand of those happy folk earn more than one hundred thousand dollars a year. We...
View ArticleTransport
Here’s another problem the Council needs to face up to and stop bellyaching. Traffic congestion costs the city one point eight to two billion dollars a year. Fix it. More bus-ways – the Shore’s...
View ArticleThe Ports of Auckland
The other problem the Council needs to address is the Ports of Auckland. First, two council reports from Cameron and Partners and EY recommend selling down the Council holding by forty nine per cent –...
View ArticleCouncil Assets
There is an ideological majority on that council that say “You can’t sell assets.” They’re trapped in their own closed minds by their old redundant ideology. This council has many billions of dollars...
View ArticlePublic Private Partnerships
There is plenty to be done locally around Waitemata. The good old Point Erin baths that I used to swim in when I was kid are in an appalling state. They say it might cost $10 million to bring them up...
View ArticleVote
At the last local body election, only about 35 per cent of us bothered to vote. That is truly dreadful. Even if you don’t vote for me, please, just vote.
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Launch at The Sapphire Room
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