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Roger Childs: AN APPROPRIATE NAME FOR THE TRANSMISSION GULLY MOTORWAY?
The obsession with giving government departments, new buildings and now highways te reo names continues.
The latest to have a name “gifted” to it, is the long awaited but recently opened Transmission Gully motorway linking the Kapiti Coast with the Tawa Valley. But is anyone actually going to call it by the new Maori name?......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/roger-childs-appropriate-name-for.html
Reynold Macpherson: ARGUMENT AGAINST CO-GOVERNANCE REPLACING DEMOCRACY
Nobody disputes the fairness of everyone voting for at-large candidates. However, electing an equal number of councillors from each of the Māori and general wards, so-called voter parity, is unfair.
Voter parity across the two wards would give the 19,791 citizens on the Māori Roll 2.6 times the voting power of the 51,618 citizens on the General Roll.
Why was it proposed? In my opinion, voter parity is favoured by those who seek co-governance. Co-governance is where those elected share their power and responsibilities to govern citizens with a third party they have selected. RDRR members will never accept being co-governed by un-elected people.
Another problem with the interim and ideal models is that Clause 2 of Schedule 1A of the Local Electoral Act 2001 requires representation from wards to be proportional to their electoral populations. In my view, both models are therefore unlawful and undemocratic.
A third problem is that Section 12 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights gives every citizen the right to vote in genuine periodic elections by equal suffrage, not voter parity. Equal suffrage means giving all voters equal voting power, and where there are wards, proportional representation. It is, in my opinion, legally ill-advised to promote voter parity over equal suffrage......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/reynold-macpherson-argument-against-co.html
Henry Armstrong: ARDERN’S CO-GOVERNANCE STRATEGY REVEALED!
Since when has a call for a national referendum on such an important constitutional change as that proposed in the co-governance model being promoted by the Ardern government, warranted the claim by Tukaki (whoever he might be?) that a referendum represents “a dog-whistle to racists”? Silly me, again! I thought a referendum gave the people a chance to indicate their support or otherwise for an important issue. Oh dear, silly old me!
Well, Tukaki doesn’t stop there. In a report of a “discussion” on the AM show (Newshub, 31 March), Rotorua Lakes Councillor Tania Tapsell condemned the co-governed Maori Health Authority as not being in the interests of local Maori whose voices will be lost in the mega-Authority. “Nonsense”, says Tukaki, ”Iwi wants (sic) it, hapu wants (sic) it. The Maori Health Authority, etc ....”. But the next bit is the revealing bit. He said “co-governance isn’t new and has actually been happening locally for many years. It works successfully. We have managed to look after our natural resources and so on and so forth for years now. This is not new”.
And in the VUW Democracy Project’s Political Roundup (Bryce Edwards, 4 April), a series of articles on Three Waters and co-governance all report how well co-governance is working. But not one of these articles even mentions the fact that current co-governance arrangements have simply been imposed-not by public assent, and totally without public discussion or debate. How democratic is that?
Elsewhere in the “news”, David Seymour’s proposal for a referendum on the co-governance issue has been roundly rejected by the government, the mainstream media, the Maori Party, and the Greens. So much for democracy!
Why are these quotes, (Ardern, Tukaki, et al) revealing? Because they set out the strategy for ensuring that co-governance becomes the reality in 2040, by constantly repeating, emphasising and stating that “we already have co-governance; it has been around for years; and it works well, eh?”
Let’s fast-forward :..........
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/henry-armstrong-arderns-co-governance.html
Point of Order: MAHUTA INVITES LOCAL BODIES TO QUEUE UP FOR A PORTION OF THREE WATERS FUNDING
Yesterday, as Minister of Local Government, she announced that councils can now apply for the first tranche of funding from the Three Waters Reform Package to invest in their local communities
The Department of Internal Affairs has issued guidance to councils on the application process. The first tranche of $500 million of funding will be available from 1 July.
Unallocated money will be rolled into the next tranche, which becomes available on 1 July 2024, when the four publicly owned Water Service Entities are established.
Never mind the small matter of the need for Parliament to pass legislation, the Water Services Bill, to create four publicly owned water entities to take over responsibility for three waters services from local councils........
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/point-of-order-mahuta-invites-local.html
Graham Adams: CO-GOVERNANCE DEBATE DESCENDS INTO A SLUGFEST
Act leader David Seymour certainly thrust the cat among the pigeons a fortnight ago by announcing that if a National-Act government is elected next year, he would want it to pass a law defining the principles of the Treaty.
Like the End of Life Choice Act, the law would come into effect only once a referendum had ratified it, with Seymour suggesting that take place at the 2026 general election.
Seymour says the “Treaty Principles Act” would be “short but decisive”:…..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/graham-adams-co-governance-debate.html
The obsession with giving government departments, new buildings and now highways te reo names continues.
The latest to have a name “gifted” to it, is the long awaited but recently opened Transmission Gully motorway linking the Kapiti Coast with the Tawa Valley. But is anyone actually going to call it by the new Maori name?......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/roger-childs-appropriate-name-for.html
Reynold Macpherson: ARGUMENT AGAINST CO-GOVERNANCE REPLACING DEMOCRACY
Nobody disputes the fairness of everyone voting for at-large candidates. However, electing an equal number of councillors from each of the Māori and general wards, so-called voter parity, is unfair.
Voter parity across the two wards would give the 19,791 citizens on the Māori Roll 2.6 times the voting power of the 51,618 citizens on the General Roll.
Why was it proposed? In my opinion, voter parity is favoured by those who seek co-governance. Co-governance is where those elected share their power and responsibilities to govern citizens with a third party they have selected. RDRR members will never accept being co-governed by un-elected people.
Another problem with the interim and ideal models is that Clause 2 of Schedule 1A of the Local Electoral Act 2001 requires representation from wards to be proportional to their electoral populations. In my view, both models are therefore unlawful and undemocratic.
A third problem is that Section 12 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights gives every citizen the right to vote in genuine periodic elections by equal suffrage, not voter parity. Equal suffrage means giving all voters equal voting power, and where there are wards, proportional representation. It is, in my opinion, legally ill-advised to promote voter parity over equal suffrage......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/reynold-macpherson-argument-against-co.html
Henry Armstrong: ARDERN’S CO-GOVERNANCE STRATEGY REVEALED!
Since when has a call for a national referendum on such an important constitutional change as that proposed in the co-governance model being promoted by the Ardern government, warranted the claim by Tukaki (whoever he might be?) that a referendum represents “a dog-whistle to racists”? Silly me, again! I thought a referendum gave the people a chance to indicate their support or otherwise for an important issue. Oh dear, silly old me!
Well, Tukaki doesn’t stop there. In a report of a “discussion” on the AM show (Newshub, 31 March), Rotorua Lakes Councillor Tania Tapsell condemned the co-governed Maori Health Authority as not being in the interests of local Maori whose voices will be lost in the mega-Authority. “Nonsense”, says Tukaki, ”Iwi wants (sic) it, hapu wants (sic) it. The Maori Health Authority, etc ....”. But the next bit is the revealing bit. He said “co-governance isn’t new and has actually been happening locally for many years. It works successfully. We have managed to look after our natural resources and so on and so forth for years now. This is not new”.
And in the VUW Democracy Project’s Political Roundup (Bryce Edwards, 4 April), a series of articles on Three Waters and co-governance all report how well co-governance is working. But not one of these articles even mentions the fact that current co-governance arrangements have simply been imposed-not by public assent, and totally without public discussion or debate. How democratic is that?
Elsewhere in the “news”, David Seymour’s proposal for a referendum on the co-governance issue has been roundly rejected by the government, the mainstream media, the Maori Party, and the Greens. So much for democracy!
Why are these quotes, (Ardern, Tukaki, et al) revealing? Because they set out the strategy for ensuring that co-governance becomes the reality in 2040, by constantly repeating, emphasising and stating that “we already have co-governance; it has been around for years; and it works well, eh?”
Let’s fast-forward :..........
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/henry-armstrong-arderns-co-governance.html
Point of Order: MAHUTA INVITES LOCAL BODIES TO QUEUE UP FOR A PORTION OF THREE WATERS FUNDING
Yesterday, as Minister of Local Government, she announced that councils can now apply for the first tranche of funding from the Three Waters Reform Package to invest in their local communities
The Department of Internal Affairs has issued guidance to councils on the application process. The first tranche of $500 million of funding will be available from 1 July.
Unallocated money will be rolled into the next tranche, which becomes available on 1 July 2024, when the four publicly owned Water Service Entities are established.
Never mind the small matter of the need for Parliament to pass legislation, the Water Services Bill, to create four publicly owned water entities to take over responsibility for three waters services from local councils........
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/point-of-order-mahuta-invites-local.html
Graham Adams: CO-GOVERNANCE DEBATE DESCENDS INTO A SLUGFEST
Act leader David Seymour certainly thrust the cat among the pigeons a fortnight ago by announcing that if a National-Act government is elected next year, he would want it to pass a law defining the principles of the Treaty.
Like the End of Life Choice Act, the law would come into effect only once a referendum had ratified it, with Seymour suggesting that take place at the 2026 general election.
Seymour says the “Treaty Principles Act” would be “short but decisive”:…..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/graham-adams-co-governance-debate.html