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Council Lineup Includes Mike Lee
It’s full steam ahead for Mike Lee who was way ahead in the provisional results for the prized inner city and Waihake Waitemata and Gulf seat, beating C&R-supported...
Len Brown Wins - Vote Details
Len Brown, as polls predicted, will be Auckland’s first supermayor. With victory clear, John Banks brought forward a planned news conference to 1.30pm to make...
39% Voted
Three days out from the close of voting, 39.4% of voting documents have been returned for Auckland’s first supercouncil election - compared with 27.2...
Key Appointments To CCOs
The appointments of chief executives to four newly-created CCOs of the Auckland Council have been announced today. They include Michael Redman – the former mayor...
Poll: Banks Not Getting Nats
I remain a little sceptical about local body election polls - but if you believe the latest one current Auckland mayor Banks is failing to attract expected...
24% Vote So Far, 18% in Wgtn
So far only 24.8 per cent of Auckland supercouncil local body voting documents have been returned two weeks into the three-week voting period. But that’s a...
Banks: Rail To Albany Lunacy
With just days left for voting in the local body election, Auckland Mayor John Banks says airport rail would go broke and rail to Albany was a lunatic idea, neither of...
11% Votes In So Far
A week into the three-week voting period for the Auckland supercouncil election, 11.1% of voting documents have been returned. This compares with 9.4% at the same...
Candidate: Forget Rail, Use Pods
It’s that time for nutcase ideas. Point To Point shuttle systems are the best and most cost effective solution to Auckland’s public transport woes according...
Want a $240,000 Job?
Want a $240,000 job? Well, stand for the Auckland SuperCity. The Remuneration Authority has determined that the new Auckland Council mayor will be paid $240,000,...
Key Auck Planner From Wellington
The critical position of Chief Planning Officer for the new Auckland SuperCouncil has gone to a Wellingtonian. Porirua City Council Chief Executive Roger Blakeley...
Auckland Stays The Same?
The signs are that there won’t be much major change to the Auckland super-city legislation when the parliamentary select committee, which heard submissions,...
