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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!

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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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 →

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 →

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…

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

“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 →

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 →

I accepted Mayor Radich’s suggested extra role of Chair of the Disabilities Group because of my 18 years experience as the father of a severely disabled autistic son and being part of the disabled support organisations community. This seems not … Continue reading →

Lee Vandervis Shared with Public We may never know what made Jacinda jump or who emptied her tank, but Chris Trotter’s 3 Waters insights hint at part of what has been going down. Chris Trotter: Blowing off the froth – … Continue reading →