Elections

Invercargill city has elected Nobby Clark as its new mayor. Polls closed at midday today in the local body elections across Aotearoa. Progress results delivered to Invercargill City Council just after midday today show Nobby Clark has 6537 votes, followed by Marcus Lush with 3785 votes, Toni Biddle

Opinion and fun commentary. We are three large mayoral polls in now and from the start Nobby Clark has lead all three, with Toni Biddle and Marcus Lush trailing in the last two polls. From the start Sir Tim Shadbolt has not been in the running trailing in 5th place behind Darren Ludlow. Below I […]

3 Waters Reform: The next step towards ultimate Centralism. Opinion piece by Ian Pottinger. Localism vs Centralism: Localism involves the shifting of power and decision making back to citizens and their communities. The opposite of localism is centralism and NZ is currently the most centralised coun

Update: We have added below responses from Nobby Clark (in italics) backing up a number of points raised by Peter. The named councillors Kett called out in his opinion piece, ran to Stuff’d and tried to smear him, but never offered any details correcting alleged inaccuracies in his opinion piece. Re

Opinion: Here is my blunt but fun thoughts on our latest city council poll. And don’t forget to 1. Vote Mike for ILT, 2.Keep a look out for more Mike & About. Another council poll completed and a pattern is emerging. Comparing the two polls we see that the top six have not changed with […]

Right before the very first Covid-19 lockdown back in March 2020, the Invercargill City Council made a decision to demolish the old building at 66 Dee St next to the library. The budgeted amount was $1.4 million, but prior to the meeting Nelson businessman Gaire Thompson offered to buy it from counc

A teacher used to say to me “ failure plus excuses is not the same thing as success”. If she had added “and Planning is not the same thing as doing” then she would have captured the performance of Council perfectly. A single example, Anderson Park, demonstrates that. How can it take eight years to [

All good things must come to an end, and Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt spoke yesterday at the Invercargill City Council meeting in what could possibly be his last hurrah.  He thanked all councillors for their service over the past three years, and their families for the support.  He said after more than 30