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Auckland Council: who swallowed the most dead rats?

What was supposed to be a mere procedural step became a rehashing of still raw, difficult decisions made in council chambers earlier this month

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Auckland Transport boss: ‘You can’t run a business like this’

Auckland’s transport agency are crying out for more certainty in funding models as an expanding city and asset base ensure that costs are only on the way up.

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Beware future shocks, warn Auckland Council staff

Maurice Williamson also warned his fellow councillors there’s plenty coming down the pipe - but how much debt headroom does Auckland Council actually need?

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Another Ode for .. Wayne Brown

Bard Billot once more on the barbarian Brown.

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Airport for sale: councillors pass budget after two days of debate

A 7 percent stake in Auckland Airport is going up for sale after 14 councillors voted through the new yearly budget.

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No full airport sale but councillors 'going to have to swallow a dead rat or two’

After a day of debate and questions, Auckland’s councillors have put off their budget votes until today

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Brown's budget ends in purgatory

Wayne Brown conceded ground on almost all his original planks for Auckland Council's budget, and ground out a kind of political draw that left no one particularly happy.

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Raw Politics: Labour's free range ministers

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Whatever did Chris Hipkins do to deserve the absent-minded, busy, superior minister Michael Woods, and which of the electoral reforms deserve to be adopted

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Brown airport plan still in need of votes

It’s an historic day for Auckland Council as the vote looms on Wayne Brown’s ‘reset budget’.

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Roger, Ruth, Wayne and Tina

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown conjures up the ghosts of economic reformers past in demanding his council sell its biggest asset

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Councillors partial to partial airport sale

If Wayne Brown’s full selldown of airport shares doesn’t get off the ground, will Auckland’s councillors find a compromise?

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Mayor’s councillor call-outs 'a mark of his desperation'

Brown upped the ante on his blunt communication style when he called out four councillors for daring to vote against him on the upcoming decision on whether to sell the airport shares.

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Brown's obsessive nano-management is just what Auckland doesn't need

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown's proposals won't help the city in the short or long term. Worse, he shows no signs of the personal and political skills needed to work with councillors and citizens to develop better plans

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Brown calls for councillor loyalty – and media to stay away

Members of the press being turned away from the door distracted from the announcement of asset sales and inflation-pegged rates in Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s final budget proposal

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The ebb and flow of Auckland Council’s storm recovery costs

An adjusted estimate of Auckland's future flood recovery spend has saved Auckland Council $10m

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'Missed opportunity' for crime prevention in Auckland

$2 million from central Government to prevent crime in Auckland will be distributed via business associations and without a crime frequency lens

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Wayne to Busan: lessons for Auckland from Korea’s second city

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is rubbing shoulders this weekend with mayors from cities like New Orleans, Santiago and Mombasa at the World Climate Industry Expo in Busan

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Auckland's new tool to fight the bus driver shortage

Safety barriers on Auckland buses could soon be part of a wide-ranging approach to attract bus drivers to Auckland and ‘rebuild’ the public transport system

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Auckland's anti-flooding plan now 'on steroids'

Houses may have to be removed, waterways opened up and new rules passed as part of an ambitious $1 billion plan to sort Auckland's flood-prone neighbourhoods within six years

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Council to cough up share of $1b CRL blow-out

Budget 2023 revealed Auckland Council won't be getting a deal on its $500m obligation.

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Wayne Brown softens on social service cuts

The outcry against proposed cuts to social, arts and culture services has seen Auckland mayor Wayne Brown promise to go a little easier with the shears

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The mystery of the imaginary 22.5 percent rates hike

A $50m widening of Auckland Council’s budget shortfall has seen the mayor and political pundits talking about a hypothetical 22.5 percent rates increase - but where did that number come from in the first place?

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Auckland’s austere future: dodging debt by a thousand cuts

Are unkempt city streets a harbinger of things to come as Auckland Council looks to defund a wide-ranging ecosystem of services? Matthew Scott investigates how things will change on the ground.

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Wayne Brown: Auckland's budget hole could go from bad to worse

Just when Aucklanders thought they'd digested an unpalatable mix of financial measures to fix a big budget deficit, things could get tougher still.

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Wayne Brown called out on voter fraud claim

An allegation of voting fraud in Otāhuhu during Auckland's local body election leads to a demand the mayor front up with evidence.

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