Whakatane and
Napier,
delivering what promises to be a phenomenal two-hour
multimedia dance floor set of the Dub’s classics,
alongside a bag of new tunes from their forthcoming album
RETURN TO OUR KŌWHAI.
Conan Wilcox and
Whirimako
Black and
Laughton Kora. As
featured artists on the new album, Tiki, Whirimako, and
Laughton will bring a dynamic vocal power-house to the bands
huge multi genre live show. And in a nod to the early days,
Tiki will also feature on the desk as dub meister for a
bracket of new album tunes as he did when he first joined
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 2:24 pm
The Auditor-General’s new report,
Insights
into local government: 2020, presents the
main findings from the 2019/20 audits of New Zealand’s
local councils and other local government
work.
“Providing affordable and sustainable services
to communities has always been a challenge for councils, but
it is becoming even harder,” says John
Ryan.
“Well-planned, funded, and well-managed asset
renewal programmes are critical to sustainable service
delivery. Without this, communities can end up paying more
to renew their assets and suffering unexpected disruptions
to services because of asset failure.”
Previous
reports have noted concerns that councils have not been
adequately reinvesting in their assets. This trend continued
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 12:49 pm
Community voice is critical to getting the Resource
Management (RM) Reform right, says Local Government New
Zealand (LGNZ).
LGNZ President Stuart Crosby said
councils will be looking carefully at the exposure draft of
the Natural and Built Environment Act that released today
with a view to how it will improve upon the existing
Resource Management Act (RMA) and not place a further burden
on communities.
“The Government is rightly taking a
red pen to the RMA, with the first exposure draft released
today. But after years of system failure, we all know it’s
critical to get it right. This can only be achieved with
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 2:45 pm
Following the Government’s Alert Level 1 announcement,
Metlink has confirmed that face coverings are still
mandatory on all bus, train and ferry services from 11:59pm
on Tuesday 29 June.
“The Government has made it
clear that people should wear face coverings on public
transport and we encourage our staff and passengers to
follow this advice on our buses, trains and ferries. These
measures will help keep passengers safe across the whole
network,” says Scott Gallacher, General Manager of
Metlink.
Students on dedicated school services do not
have to wear face coverings, but students 12 years and older
must wear face coverings if using regular public transport
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 11:47 am
Whangarei District Council (WDC) today voted unanimously
to provisionally opt out of the Government’s three waters
reform process until new information confirming ratepayers
would be better off is provided.
Council’s Mayor
Sheryl Mai and Chief Executive Rob Forlong will now write to
the Chief Executive of Internal Affairs advising that
Council intends to formally withdraw from the
reforms.
“We will be reminding the Internal Affairs
Department that it said participation in the three waters
reform was voluntary with the ability for Councils to opt
out,” said Mayor Sheryl Mai.
“We will also note
that Government’s Memorandum of Understanding that