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Showing posts with label Three Waters reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Three Waters reform. Show all posts
Monday, February 26, 2024

Ele Ludemann: Questions media doesn’t ask

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Various news stories have criticisms on National’s replacement for Labour’s Three + Waters. Most of them talk about what it will cost and th...
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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Mike Hosking: Three Waters has been lost amongst the rest of the mess

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Is a divisive issue still an issue if people don’t talk about it the way they once did? The Three Waters legislation was passed yesterday un...
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Friday, April 21, 2023

Graham Adams: Labour’s Three Waters refresh is a tragi-comedy

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The government’s disdain for democracy is a gift to National and Act. Last week, we watched the Prime Minister rebrand the contentious Three...
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Thursday, April 20, 2023

Thomas Cranmer: Hipkins Puts Three Waters Back on the Table

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The Prime Minister announces changes to the controversial reform but we are left with the same problems that existed last year - only multip...
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Monday, April 17, 2023

Eric Crampton: There's a better way to reset the Three Waters reforms

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I don’t know the right number of local water service entities. Neither do you. And neither does the Government. Sometimes, the right number ...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Janet Wilson: Never mind the name, we'll all pay for water changes

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In 2006 Sea World executives, fearful of a backlash from the gay community, decided to change the name of the Phillip Island fairy penguin t...
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Sunday, February 12, 2023

Kerry Burke: The need to cut through the confusion over co-governance

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There seems to be a great deal of confusion about what co-governance means, with our political leaders also seemingly uncertain. Māori Party...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

Graham Adams: A taniwha rears its head in the Three Waters debate

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A question many of us have been dying to ask about the Three Waters bill is: “Could the legislation allow a taniwha to stop the construction...
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Sunday, September 25, 2022

Stuart Smith: Check Your Candidates’ Three Waters Stance

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There is growing public concern with the Government’s Three Waters legislation that will take council drinking, storm and wastewater assets ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2022

John Porter: The Absolute Power of Veto

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“We have always owned the water!” So said the Maori king back in September 2012. He went further by stating, “the ultimate goal for iwi is ...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Eric Crampton: Bad debt and a bad precedent

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Among the problems leading to the Government’s proposed Three Waters reforms were councils loading up their balance sheets with dubious debt...
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Sunday, August 14, 2022

Stuart Smith: National’s Response to Three Waters

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The Three Waters debate is heating up as the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee, or FEC as it is known, begins to hear evidence on the...
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Thursday, July 21, 2022

Point of Order: Govt gives each council another $350,000 (of our money) to get Three Waters flowing – and win their support for its coup

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Three Waters reforms – the subject of widespread disquiet around the country – was among the issues tackled by Ministers with new initiative...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Tim Dower: Our water needs attention, but Three Waters is not the way to do it

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It's hard to understand the Government's obstinacy on the Three Waters reforms. From the get-go, the response from local bodies up a...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Craig Little: There's a better way forward than Three Waters

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In her election victory speech back in October 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stated, “We will be a party that governs for every New Ze...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Graham Adams: Is the jig up for Three Waters?

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In Parliament last week, David Seymour was so cock-a-hoop about what he reckoned was the beginning of the end for Three Waters he could bare...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Karl du Fresne: Squeeze your eyes shut, cross your fingers and hope

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The Three Waters project is a con and a fiasco on every level. First, it fails to satisfy even the most basic democratic test. A system in w...
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Saturday, May 7, 2022

John Bishop: Three Waters is still a shameless asset grab

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”How did Three Waters go so badly wrong? ” asked the newspaper headline. From the Government’s point of view, the answer is that it hasn’t g...
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Monday, May 2, 2022

Graham Adams: Three Waters looks like the government’s suicide note

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It has been widely noted that Jacinda Ardern didn’t appear at Friday’s media conference in Porirua to announce that the government would pre...
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Bryce Edwards: Is Three Waters really about water infrastructure or iwi co-governance?

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On Friday the Government made some announcements about their Three Waters programme that were meant to assuage public concerns about the ref...
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