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Well-beings and oil wells

AUTHOR Frank Newman DATE 16 Apr 2018

It’s been a big week in politics. Last week saw the first reading in Parliament of the Local Government (Community Well-being) Amendment Bill. The purpose of the Bill is to reverse changes made ...
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Council derivatives

AUTHOR Frank Newman DATE 08 Apr 2018

Derivatives are the sort of things you generally only come across in movies about wheelers and dealers in far-away places like New York and London - but they have a relevance much closer to home. ...
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Nice-to-haves drive rates and debt increases

AUTHOR Frank Newman DATE 07 Apr 2018

The Whangarei District Council (WDC) is currently going through a "Have your say" process about its Long Term Plan 2018-2028 (LTP) . Submissions to the plan close tomorrow, the 8th....
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A careful deconstruction

AUTHOR Frank Newman DATE 27 Oct 2017

It has taken the organisers of the Hundertwasser project some time to come to the reality that the former NRC building cannot be "reinvigorated through the application of significant interventions", w...
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