Nanaia Mahuta

OPINION: Democracy is under attack. The Ardern Government is proposing reforms to councils that will see co-governance forced upon communities across...

The solution is a political one. the Minister has actually made it very clear to use that she would love future governments of whichever colour they are to take the recommendations of this report forward..." It is important to continue to speak up; submissions close on February 28. Realistically submissions to the panel are not going to make any difference. If implemented they would pass control of local authorities to Māori, and councils would become the right arm of central government. There is little surprise the draft recommendations just happened to sound like a list of the Ardern Government's propaganda.