Wayne Brown

Businessman Wayne Brown is the new Mayor of Auckland after beating the Labour-endorsed candidate Efeso Collins. Progress results issued by Auckland Council.

Molloy pulled out just before nominations closed when a poll showed him slipping from second to third place. In the last week of the campaign, Brown hit the headlines with an attack on Herald journalist Simon Wilson, saying he would put his picture on urinals and pee on them. Vicki Salmon, who worked with Brown when he was chairman of the Auckland District Health Board when the new Auckland Hospital was built on time and on budget, said Brown is "very upfront, he's got a good brain on him, he can understand very technical issues...and (is) someone who listens to people". 'Clearest possible message': Wayne Brown celebrates Auckland mayoralty - 54,000 vote majority "It is now up to me, the new governing body and the local boards to act on our mandate, fix what is broken and deliver the change you demand," said the incoming mayor. Businessman Wayne Brown is the new Mayor of Auckland after beating the Labour-endorsed candidate Efeso Collins.

Wayne Brown is Auckland's new mayor, defeating his Labour and Green Party-endorsed main rival Efeso Collins. The former mayor of the Far North District, ...

Sincere congratulations to Wayne Brown and wish you every success in this blessed role as Mayor of Auckland. U have my full support and thanks for being so respectful and robust during rue campaign. In defeat, Collins offered his congratulations and support to Brown in a post on social media. Brown did not have a detailed policy platform, but has vowed to replace all directors of the major council agencies, particularly Auckland Transport, of which he has been particularly critical. Brown styled himself as “The Fixer” with his campaign based on the premise that Auckland Council and its agencies were broken, and needed his skills as a civil engineer, and past chairman of boards who has dealt with major projects. In a victory speech, Brown said the results sends a message that Auckland needs “fixing”.

Anti-establishment candidate Wayne Brown surges to victory in the Auckland mayoralty, ending the centre-left's dominance of the super city's leadership.

Here’s our guide to get you started on the five-week tournament in Aotearoa. Brown came through a crowded field on the centre right to outlast first Leo Molloy, then Viv Beck and pass Collins in the final two major public opinion polls. “At more than 300 campaign events over the last six months, Aucklanders have made clear to me and fellow candidate Efeso Collins that you love our city, but that you know much of it is broken. Just 31.1 percent of those eligible voted, down from 35.3 and 38.5 percent in the two previous elections. That mix would be encouraging for Brown and his team. About 85 to 90 percent of votes have been counted since voting closed at midday today in an historically-low turnout.

The Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance is congratulating Mayor-elect Wayne Brown. A progress report on Saturday afternoon indicates that Brown has won a strong ...

Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesman Josh Van Veen said: “Aucklanders have spoken and they want a council that spends less, not more. Brown’s plan to charge the Ports of Auckland rates would also see council finances improve. The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is congratulating Mayor-elect Wayne Brown.

Wayne Brown has claimed victory in the Auckland mayoralty race and says he is privileged and humbled to be the city's new mayor.

Auckland City Council said Brown was leading the race with 144,619 votes ahead of Collins by 54,808 votes. Brown said he would now work with everyone who was elected today, Auckland council officers who deliver services, "and Efeso, who I have come to regard as a friend and would like to work with over the three years ahead". Brown said he had a mandate for change, he thanked Aucklanders for giving that to him, and said he looked forward to making those changes that they expect.

Businessman Wayne Brown is the new Mayor of Auckland after beating the Labour-endorsed candidate Efeso Collins. Progress results issued by Auckland Council ...

Molloy pulled out just before nominations closed when a poll showed him slipping from second to third place. In the last week of the campaign, Brown hit the headlines with an attack on Herald journalist Simon Wilson, saying he would put his picture on urinals and pee on them.e city Vicki Salmon, who worked with Brown when he was chairman of the Auckland District Health Board when the new Auckland Hospital was built on time and on budget, said Brown is "very upfront, he's got a good brain on him, he can understand very technical issues...and (is) someone who listens to people". "Our research was very clear that there was a very strong proportion of the city who were looking for the kind of messages Wayne was promoting, they were looking for a change and felt the status quo was not what they were looking for," he said. "It is now up to me, the new governing body and the local boards to act on our mandate, fix what is broken and deliver the change you demand," said the incoming mayor. His wife of 47 years, Toni, said she was excited and relieved, saying he had worked so hard with his team for so long and so proud of her husband.

Brown has also promised "no sudden shocks" in the form of rates rises.

In a big surprise, Waitākere councillor Linda Cooper lost her seat to Waitākere Ranges Local Board member Ken Turner by 538 votes. These three unsuccessful candidates could still win when Saturday's votes and special votes are counted. "That's it for me. "I willingly exit the role." They deserve respect." In a speech to his family, campaign team and supporters, he had nothing but high praise for Collins, saying he had come to regard him as a friend and would like to work with him over the next three years.

Brown has also promised "no sudden shocks" in the form of rates rises.

In a big surprise, Waitākere councillor Linda Cooper lost her seat to Waitākere Ranges Local Board member Ken Turner by 538 votes. These three unsuccessful candidates could still win when Saturday's votes and special votes are counted. "That's it for me. "I willingly exit the role." They deserve respect." In a speech to his family, campaign team and supporters, he had nothing but high praise for Collins, saying he had come to regard him as a friend and would like to work with him over the next three years.

Dear Aucklanders,. You couldn't have sent a clearer message and I promise you it's been heard. At over 300 campaign events, interviews and debates over the ...

I think the board of directors should heed the message from the election and offer to resign. It is our job to build a functioning team, free of political labels, and focused on fixing Auckland. There will be no sudden shocks to your family budgets under my leadership. Throughout the region, you have chosen a new governing body to represent each of your communities. I will work in good faith with all of them. But you know much of it is broken.

Watch: Wayne Brown 'privileged and humbled' to be Auckland's new Mayor. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - Supplied via RNZ/Newshub Nation. The chair of Auckland ...

Auckland's new mayor is the kind of politician who you can take at face value - if he promises disruption and radical change, it is more than likely to ...

His view is that charging for the use of the roads will quickly see the coned and fenced-off sections reopened for motorists and pedestrians. On Saturday night, the Karangahape Rd apartment resident was with his family and supporters at a celebration function in Ponsonby. If he follows through on campaign rhetoric, Brown will want an early reveal to both him and the public of whatever the extra costs delays caused by Covid and global supply chain interruptions are for the City Rail LInk joint venture between the Crown and council. His to-do list is a blizzard of governance, management and regulatory interventions. Politicians further afield, like ministers and MPs, will be told what Auckland wants, and made aware their only role is to supply the taxpayer funding. Behind the barriers, space was too often used for portaloos and parking contractors' utes, he claimed. That mix would be encouraging for Brown and his team. He reckoned the suburban development arm Eke Panuku and economic development agency Auckland Unlimited ought to be abolished. Brown promised that Auckland Transport would be the first to go and, on cue, the chair Adrienne Young-Cooper announced her resignation on Saturday night to clear his path. By all political and business accounts, Ports of Auckland Ltd just could not raise that kind of sum once, let alone annually. He believes bands of top executives are overpaid and has sought advice on how, under employment laws, he might take action to reduce their number or incomes. "The people in there thinking about my arrival ....

Brown said there was no agency about which Aucklanders were angrier, and “the board of directors should heed the message from the election and resign”. The call ...

[Efeso Collins quits politics after defeat in Auckland mayoral race](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-body-elections/130110943/efeso-collins-quits-politics-after-defeat-in-auckland-mayoral-race?rm=a) [Auckland election: Wayne Brown leads a council likely to change course](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-body-elections/130112867/auckland-election-wayne-brown-leads-a-council-likely-to-change-course?rm=a) [How the leading campaigns won and lost the Auckland mayoralty](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-body-elections/130084376/how-the-leading-campaigns-won-and-lost-the-auckland-mayoralty?rm=a) * [a resounding 50,000 vote provisional margin](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-body-elections/130084376/how-the-leading-campaigns-won-and-lost-the-auckland-mayoralty) and said he had a mandate to move on the policies he’d campaigned on, such as a clean-sweep of boards at council agencies. [mayor Wayne Brown](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-body-elections/130111003/champagne-wayne-brown-wins-auckland-mayoralty-vows-to-fix-nzs-biggest-city) has made the council’s transport agency his first target, calling for its board to resign, and the [chair Adrienne Young-Cooper did so immediately](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300708210/brown-mayoralty-claims-first-scalp-as-auckland-transports-chair-resigns).

Incoming Auckland mayor Wayne Brown says he is taking the day off to spend with his family, but has already asked for a full briefing on the state of the ...

I think the board of directors should heed the message from the election and offer to resign. During his campaign Brown had called for the resignation of the boards of directors of Auckland Council's council-controlled organisations, and pledged to bring them back directly under the council's control. Incoming Auckland mayor Wayne Brown says he is taking the day off to spend with his family, but has already asked for a full briefing on the state of the council's books

He took firm aim at Auckland Transport (AT) saying it was his “most immediate” priority.

I think the board of directors should heed the message from the election and offer to resign. Boards of directors at some other CCOs need also to consider their positions.” In his letter, Brown wrote he wants every councillor and member of the Independent Māori Statutory Board to have a role that interests and challenges them and which is more meaningful than they have had before, with powers to make real decisions for which they will be directly accountable to voters.

The new mayor declined an invitation for a sit-down interview with the Herald to discuss his emphatic win over the Labour-endorsed candidate Efeso Collins and ...

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Dear Aucklanders, You couldn't have sent a clearer message and I promise you it's been heard. At over 300 campaign events, interviews and debates over the.

It is our job to build a functioning team, free of political labels, and focused on fixing Auckland. I think the board of directors should heed the message from the election and offer to resign. There will be no sudden shocks to your family budgets under my leadership. Throughout the region, you have chosen a new governing body to represent each of your communities. I will work in good faith with all of them. But you know much of it is broken.

But he says he's already asked for a full briefing on the state of the council's books.

The city has spoken - or 30 percent of it has - and Wayne Brown has been voted the next mayor of Auckland - but he won't be speaking to media today and is ...

I think the board of directors should heed the message from the election and offer to resign. Auckland City Council said Brown was leading the race with 144,619 votes ahead of Collins by 54,808 votes. "You've promised to fix what's broken, so I look forward to ensuring Council is held to account on climate action, density done well, liveable streets and well resourced public amenities. In a statement, Brown said he had asked council officers to provide him a full briefing on the state of the council's books, their economic forecasts for the next three years and all risks. An excellent sign for further change in 2023." "He wants the rest of the board out and he clearly wants to put people in that he knows and trusts." "As mayor he has got to carry the council with him and work with the professional executives of the council who he's been criticising." Brown offered a pro-business approach and had picked up on the concerns of Aucklanders with transport at the front of the queue, he said. Phil Goff said he wished the new mayor and council well and that it was not for him as former mayor to comment from the sidelines. "I think Brown identified a number of discontents the people were a bit fed up with and he played on those and there was a very strong negative vote I think." He believed the resignation of the Auckland Transport Chair would be just the start of a mass cleanout at Auckland Council. The city has spoken - or 30 percent of it has - and Wayne Brown has been voted the next mayor of Auckland.

Auckland has a new mayor, and with it a shift away from Phil Goff's centre-left lens. Wayne Brown farewelled the former Labour cabinet minister and retiring ...

Addressing the issue in 2022, Brown stated he has "learnt a lesson" and that it was not likely to be a problem in Auckland given his business interests are outside the SuperCity. At the end of 2001 he was appointed to chairman of the Auckland District Health Board and remained chair of Tairāwhiti DHB. Thank you for your support. "For today? In a rare glimpse of the family behind the man, the former Far North District mayor shared the celebratory occasion with his nearest and dearest. His background suggests he has a range of strings to his bows: A banjo-playing surfer with an engineering background, a property developer, a businessman, a self-made multi-millionaire, and a family man - husband, father and grandfather.