The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union criticises Waikato Regional Council for blocking ratepayer advocates from speaking during a vote on whether to withdraw from Local Government New Zealand, arguing that the silence undermines democratic principles and contradicts public promises to
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Yeah, and you mentioned uh senior management and chief executives. The answer is to have a few less of them by combining and hopefully what the government's doing around combining some of these authorities, local bodies authorities might go some of the way to solving the problems, but it's not an easy fix. Okay, the UN has finally changed its climate change disaster modelling. You're going to write to them to ask for a refund for all the New Zealand dollars we've wasted on alarmist policies. Your words, not mine.
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labour gains amid growing competition from greens and independents
Election day in the UK: what to look out for – and when we’ll know the resultsSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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