Author Archives: Lee Vandervis - lee@vandervision.co.nz

No elected representative or DCC staff member has responded to any of the information sent to them last week as below:

From: Lee Vandervis <lee@vandervision.co.nz>Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 10:33 PMTo: Lynne Adamson <Lynne.Adamson@dcc.govt.nz>, Council 2022-2025 (Elected Members) <council.2022-2025@dcc.govt.nz>, Sandy Graham <Sandy.Graham@dcc.govt.nz>, Executive Leadership Team (ELT) <elt@dcc.govt.nz>, Robert West <Robert.West@dcc.govt.nz>Subject: Re: Council Agenda Dear All, Item 21. Climate change significant … Continue reading

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Natural Immunity far more effective against Covid

Check out this up-to-date big peer-reviewed mRNA data ex Israel. As well as the widely coerced mRNA vaccines having serious side-effects including death from myocarditis, it has now been proven that Natural Immunity has been far better than any mRNA … Continue reading

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Our Prime Minister says “People made their own choices”

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1014406279577003

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We are paying $1,000,000 per week in interest.

The DCC is now paying an Unsustainable $1,000,000 per week interest on our BILLION$ DCC group debt and nobody even talks about how to pay it back or how we can keep paying the interest!

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Is there any Hope for New Zealand?

CHRIS TROTTER: Make or Break The following post was written in January 2022. What sounded somewhat hysterical just 18 months now sounds utterly plausible. He Puapua threatens to do to New Zealand’s Right what Rogernomics did to its Left. IN … Continue reading

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Dave Witherow used to be the most enlightening columnist the ODT ever published, until he became too enlightening…

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/dave-witherow-retrospect

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Paul Brennan Radio Interview

https://realitycheck.radio/cr-lee-vandervis-on-dunedin-city-councils-debt/

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central government at it again…

Just so that everybody [fluent in te reo and NZ sign language] knows how to drive on NZ roads, we now have bi-lingual road signage being forced upon us. None of the objections or difficulties I noted as below were … Continue reading

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Car-cancelling Council shagging Dunedin Future Transport

Hawkin’s Council hangover continues with another $146,000,000+ extra debt this year, much of it funding ‘Shaping Dunedin Future Transport’, which I see as shagging Dunedin Future Transport, driving cars out of our city, slowing traffic and making parking even more … Continue reading

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We have long been falling behind other NZ Cities

Dunedin is over-reliant on Central Government funded institutions like the Hospital and the University. Especially as Government funding tends to go to marginal Parliamentary seats up north…

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the latest DCC Debt Graph

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DCC Debt Graph and budgeted projection 10 years ago

See next post above for what has actually happened after the big Stadium debt blow-out, in the latest DCC debt graph.

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ANZAC DAY Speech Brighton Town Hall 25.04/23

War – what it is good for? – absolutely nothin’. So sang Edwin Starr in the 1970s #1 hit single which added to pressure on the US Government to withdraw its forces from Vietnam. But the simple appeal of the … Continue reading

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Dunedin’s Water distribution systems still being taken by central government and misrepresented despite all objections

60 of 67 Councils voted to opt out of the 3 Waters takeover when this Labour government misled us into thinking we had a choice. Now 10 regional entities instead of the earlier tribal 4, still with 50% Maori governance, … Continue reading

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It is getting harder to ignore media mandates and suppression of dissent

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New Zealand context in the World

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Wasted rates and Taxes

I have long advocated leaving Local Government NZ for the reasons Brown gives but also because they have degenerated into excusing Central Government excesses like forcing 3 Waters ‘reform’ on Councils when 60 of 67 Councils voted to opt out … Continue reading

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Dunedin lags NZ on many economic indicators.

“Vandervis’ growth comparisons draw criticism” ODT 9/3/23 A more informative headline would have been ‘Councillors in denial as Vandervis lists lagging economic indicators’ From our factual Infometrics agenda I quoted a long list of graphically highlighted facts showing Dunedin lagging … Continue reading

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Disability Politicking clarified.

It appears that Mr Ford, “kaituitui, or community connector for the Disability Issues Advisory Group” had not consulted Group representatives before making a personal complaint to Council about my appointment as Chair of the Disabilities Group as reported in the … Continue reading

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