Kerre Woodham: Regional councils need to be streamlined

Regional councils are being abolished – or are they?

Thomas Coughan writing in the Herald makes a very good point, it's not the councils that are being abolished, it's the council laws.

Hilary Calvert: Government must come clean about its goals

Democracy fails when a government is not honest about what it believes are the issues, why they want change and what they propose to do.

Honesty in the issues is a vital first step.

Instead, the Government leapfrogs this and moves straight into expensive and incoherent advertising spending.

Without a clear idea of what the Government wants to say, the ads vary from childish through unbelievable to what a load of rubbish.