Mayoral candidates use Town Belt time to hold up other policies
LINING UP: Mayoral candidates from left, John Morrison, Nicola Young, Karunanidhi Muthu, Jack Yan and Rob Goulden. By CALLY MARTIN WELLINGTON’S six mayoral candidates were brought together for the...
View ArticleMixed reviews from Lambton voters after inner city meeting
CANDIDATES from last nights meeting: from the left, John Woolf, Mark Peck, Rex Nicholls, Nicola Young, John Dow, Stephen Preston and Iona Pannett. By Anneka Paul AN UNIMPRESSED retiree crowd at the...
View ArticleHomeless and poverty issues separate mayoral candidates
WELLINGTON mayoral candidates’ opinions are varied and divided when it comes to addressing homelessness and poverty issues in the capital. Wellington services that deal with people who are finding it...
View ArticleCyclists push for cycle lanes through elections
LOVING CYCLING: A cyclist makes sure he is seen. “LOVE Cycling” bike plates are being used to make protected cycle lanes in Wellington a local body election issue. The Cycle Advocates Network campaign...
View ArticleMayoral hopefuls angry at being dismissed by academic
DEFINITE ARTICLE: The Dominion Post story that upset mayoral candidates. MAYORAL candidates have labelled a newspaper readers’ poll as a joke, a disservice to democracy and biased. The Dominion Post...
View ArticleYoung answers the call because politics runs in her blood
BUSINESS woman and mayoral candidate, Nicola Young, has been campaigning since age seven. Ms Young (right) got her first taste of politics door-knocking with her father, Bill Young, who won the Miramar...
View ArticleGill loses eastern ward seat to Greens’ Sarah Free
THERE will be six new councillors sitting around re-elected Wellington city Mayor Celia Wade-Brown’s council table. Sarah Free displaced Leonie Gill in the Eastern ward. Ms Free joins Simon Marsh and...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s issues aired with newly elected councillors
GET MORE colourful and listen more, Brooklyn people told new councillors at their latest meeting. Brooklyn’s elected councillors have begun to build relationships by listening to residents airing...
View ArticleCelia Wade-Brown’s new council goes live on YouTube
POLITICAL SMILES: From left, Deputy Mayor Justin Lester with councillors Iona Pannet, David Lee, Sarah Free, Nicola Young and Simon Woolf. TV RATINGS need have no fear of the live-streamed Wellington...
View ArticleClimate change job also has economic demands, says new councillor
CLIMATE change is an economic issue, not an environmental issue, and that is how new Wellington City Councillor David Lee will be tackling his role in 2014. “It is a problem because of social and...
View ArticlePolitics, bureaucracy stop Island Bay cyclists in their new bike track
TOWN PATH: The Island Bay cycleway upgrade would ultimately create a complete route to the city. A NEW year was supposed to bring an upgraded cycleway to Island Bay, but politics and red tape have cast...
View ArticleYoung and restless for mayoral future
THE LAMBTON WARD councillor’s reinvigoration of inner city Wellington was what we were here to talk about, but it became clear Nicola Young’s plans didn’t stop at shining a light on the capital’s...
View ArticleMayoral candidates get and give Living Wage messages
The crowd at the Living Wage Meet the Candidates meeting at Wesley Church in Taranaki St. Ope Siale came to New Zealand from Samoa for a better life for his kid – but he painted a bleak picture of...
View ArticleLester throws council CEO “under bus” says mayoral rival
Mayoral hopefuls at Whitireia Journalism and Broadcasting, from left, Jo Coughlan, Justin Lester, Nick Leggett and Nicola Young. Nick Leggett accused Justin Lester of throwing Wellington City Council’s...
View ArticleHomelessness and housing an increasing issue for Wellington
Wellington’s mayoral candidates front Whitireia Journalism and Broadcasting students. The government needs to do more to solve Wellington’s homelessness crisis, not the council, say mayoral candidates....
View ArticleLISTEN: Mayoral candidates split on fixing homeless issue
Candidates vying for the Wellington mayoralty can’t agree on who is responsible for fixing the capital’s homeless problem. Current figures show about 50 people a day are sleeping rough on Wellington’s...
View ArticlePolitical tourism an untapped market say local politicians
Wellington mayoral candidates (from left to right) Jo Coughlan, Justin Lester, Nick Leggett and Nicola Young. Wellington could attract more tourists by marketing itself as the capital city, say mayoral...
View ArticleDeputy Mayor on defensive over airline subsidy
Wellington’s Deputy Mayor is defending attacks from fellow mayoral candidates over a deal between the city and Singapore Airlines. Justin Lester supports the deal but some of his opponents used a press...
View ArticleDo young people know what to do with an envelope?
Image: Huffington Post Young people have been wooed as much as is physically and technologically possible in these local body elections – now it is over to them. Good meeting turn-outs and busy...
View ArticleSecret Singapore deal latest in mixed history for growth fund
Singapore Airlines ‘Capital Express’ passengers enjoyed champagne, flowers and positive press in at Canberra – but the welcome has been cooler in Wellington since last week. After traditional Māori...
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