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Anthony Blomfield
Rodney, National are is really worrying me man. I feel like joining the Libertarianz, I don't know about Act supporting this government? what do you think.
PS: But I do like the trains coming to Auckland.
Good evening, and thank you for your invitation to come along and talk about our exciting plans for making Auckland greater. I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying being Minister of Local Government - it’s a great challenge and it’s also great fun...
Beryl Marjorie Good Go ACT your philosophy of Individual Freedom with Personal responsibility is what New Zealand needs to heed. The harder you work the luckier you get. Well done Rodney keep up the direct - tell it like it is attitude!
Good morning and thank you for the invitation to join you today. I’ve been a Minister for six months now and I’ve got to say that I’m enjoying every minute of it...
This conference is a celebration for us. The last election gave us three more MPs. Our Confidence and Supply Agreement with the National Party helped form a government. Heather Roy and myself became Ministers. We have more resources, more people, and the opportunity to get better policies for NZ...
Good afternoon. It's good to be addressing another Grey Power meeting where I'm seeing people like you who look younger than me and have even more energy. I’m very pleased to be Minister of Local Government and I’m really enjoying the challenge. I’m certainly having fun...
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide today announced that Mark Ford would chair the Auckland Transition Agency (ATA). The Agency will manage the transition from the existing seven territorial authorities and one regional council, to a single unitary authority for Auckland and 20 to 30 Local Boards...
Jewel Bellee hope all is going well in wellington you are doing a great job stick at it ,jewel bellee Auckland
Rodney Hide's speech to the Third Reading of the Wanganui District Council (Prohibition Of Gang Insignia) Bill; Parliament; Wednesday, May 6 2009 I rise to speak on this bill. As I understand it, whether this bill succeeds or fails today will swing on my vote...
Minister of Local Government Minister for Regulatory Reform Associate Minister of Commerce 5 May 2009 The appointment by the Labour Party of Manurewa MP George Hawkins as Spokesman on Local Government represents a constructive move toward getting the best outcome for Auckland from reform process,...
Hon Rodney Hide - Minister of Local Government; Minister for Regulatory Reform; Associate Minister of Commerce...
Allan Crome Hey Rodders, hows it going? Keep doing battle down there. We're behind you all the way! Al and Sezra
Suzanne Weld
Rodney (good name that!), further to Cr Goudie's comments:
If the RC recommendations are accepted by the Government I have no doubt that Rodney District will become a unitary authority. Rodney DC has had its problems but as a councillor I know that my constituents do not see themselves as Aucklanders, and will resist being dictated to by Aucklanders in the context of the Royal Commission's recommendations. As a man with your own views, and with the substance to follow them through, I'm sure you'll understand that "Rodney" is not daunted by standing out and becoming a unitary authority. One of the reasons why people live in Rodney is that they don't want to be part of the masses and they enjoy Rodney's rural point of difference. They will not want an Auckland metrocentric council interfering with that - the ARC was bad enough in meddling in people's lives and dictating the district's future. What the RC recommends takes that even further, at the same time silencing the democratic voice
Michael Goudie One more thing .... this was initiated by a socialist govt. You have been such a ‘right wing’ politician for such a long time, and in my young political career I have admired you very much. So much so I have joined the National Party. A more right wing solution would be to do the Opposite. Downsize the proposed ‘superARC’, and let the reform of the RMA run its coarse. This will prove to be a solution that can be tweaked. Are we Blue or Red??
Suzanne Weld
I am a ratepayer in both Auckland and Rodney and I'm appalled at the Royal Commission's recommendations which will effectively diminish Aucklanders' voices on matters affecting them and their communities. I'm all for greater alignment so that Auckland can be driven towards the world-class city that it should be - but doing this at the expense (literally & figuratively) of those who live here is a scandal.
People are looking for a greater voice & ways to influence place-making for their communities. They will not tolerate being dictated to by an Auckland city-based, metro-centric decision-making machine run by a potentially ego-centric clown, elected at large.
We need to build on what we have - good local government; strip out the duplication at the regional level, and implement a more forward-thinking, centalised and intregrated infrastructure body for major roads and water services. There has been a lack of leadership in these areas, but why reinvent the whole wheel?
Michael Goudie
Rodney,
I think you should check out my "Hibiscus Coast" facebook group to get a ‘feel’ for the reality that could be the new combined district. Link Below.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8
The recommendations are in direct conflict of some points of the “BlueGreen Vision for NZ” (pg24) to do with MUL’s. Also is in conflict of the recent National Policy Statement in relation with public transport.
Zane Taylor
Dear Rodney,
It is vital to the people of Auckland and most importantly the people of Rodney and Franklin that they do not loose their political voice. The Royal comm recommendation is very leftist and without mandate, further Salmon had predetermined the outcome in a meeting I sat in on with (as a local body politician for Hibiscus Coast) the panel just 2 weeks into the Royal commission. the recommendation appears without mandate in Rodney, a blue blood constituency. Auckland aint broke; if it just got the infrastructure funding it required and the changes to the RMA (radical reduction of 3rd party right) and LGA reforms were allowed some life, abolish ARC & AKLs issues would disappear. Instead we risk a Homogenous region and people with a Metro Centric model, can you imagine such a boring city? I and my constituency appeal for your pragmatic government to reject the recommendation outright. The recommendation looks old, tired and socialistic even before it starts...please
Markus Lippsmeier
Hey Rodney,
as an ex Kiwi now in Switzerland who swam with you several harbour crossings ....we miss NZ and would like to keep in touch this way....Greetings from Geneva....are you swimming the King of teh Bays 09 ?? cheers Markus
More buildings, fewer building regulations!
Rodney Hide at Clubs Day at Victoria University Architecture School.
Host:Rodney Hide
Time:11:00AM Tuesday, March 10th
Location:Victoria University Architecture School
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Rodney Hide discussed NZ Army on the Rodney Hide discussion board.
read this is the paper. :>
http://blogs.nzherald.co.n