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Councillor Jenny Condie was stopped from tabling allegations of underhand tactics by mayor Andy Foster ahead of a Shelly Bay land sale vote in November.
If ever there was a chance for the 15 people around the Wellington City Council to start afresh, this was it. Councillor Rebecca Matthews took to Twitter to seemingly label some of her colleagues racist and ignorant. She has since deleted the tweet and said she didn’t mean to label individual people racist. There was thereport that said Mayor Andy Foster should be censured for sharing confidential information with some councillors ahead of a career-defining vote on the controversial $500 million Shelly Bay development.
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Wellington City Council (WCC) has released a complaint made against councillor Simon Woolf, alleging he caused staff considerable distress and failed to co
Ross Giblin/Stuff But Paul is having none of it. “I agree that the way I’ve done it is quite urgent,” Paul said during an interview this week. “I think a lot of that comes down to being young and not having been victim to unnecessary bureaucracy before,” she said. “People have different theories on change. I’m of the frame of mind that unless you give strong signals to other parties across the city about what your intentions are, how are you ever meant to change anything?”
A “game-changer” Matthew Tucker, the chief executive of the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA), said Paul was a “game-changer” when she was president of the association in 2019.