Elections

Today I am confirming that I will be standing for Mayor at the October 2022 local government elections. Having previously been Deputy Mayor for two of the last three years, I have the institutional leadership knowledge and skills to lead the city for the next 3 years. I’ve also shown that I am an en

Councillor Ian Pottinger has announced today his candidacy for the Mayoral role in this year’s local body elections. Having completed four terms as a councillor, including the last term as chair of the Infrastructure Committee, Ian said he now wants to take on the new responsibility. He believes the

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed her new Cabinet line-up and says it is focused on Covid-19 recovery. Ardern says experienced ministers will hold key economic recovery and ongoing Covid response portfolios. “The next three years will be very challenging for New Zealand. With the global out

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will this morning sign a cooperation agreement with the Green Party that will give its two co-leaders ministerial portfolios outside of Cabinet. Around 85 percent of roughly 150 Green delegates voted in favour of the deal on a lengthy conference call last night. The del

The euthanasia referendum has passed the public vote, with 65.2 percent voting in favour, but the cannabis question has 53.1 percent voting ‘no’ so far, preliminary results show. The number of voters who chose ‘no’ in the End of Life Choice referendum reached 33.8 percent. In the cannabis question,

Power Play – With the drama and excitement of election night over, it’s now time to get down to business. While Labour celebrates a resounding win, National’s on a soul-searching mission to figure out how it all went so wrong. The swing to Labour was so extraordinary it won the party vote in every s

Penny Simmonds left this morning for Wellington, but it could still be three weeks before the new National candidate can officially celebrate her win. Labour’s Dr Liz Craig will also have to wait and see if she will retain a list MP seat, which depended on results around the country. Simmonds said,

The number of people on the jobseeker benefit continues to climb – and is now up more than 40 percent compared to the same time last year. Thousands more people are out of work as financial support offered to businesses starts to run out. According to the Ministry for Social Development, in the thre