Featured / October 2010
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Bits and pieces…
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- The Dom Post ran with a front page story on Lonely Planet rating Wellington the 4th coolest capital in the world.
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Who’s the coolest of them all?
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- So, the news is out – on the front page of the DomPost, an advertising colour supplement, and banners all along the Golden Mile: Wellington is the “coolest little capital in the world”.
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Slash and burn: Dom Post talks up councillor pay cuts
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- The Dom Post reports that Mayor Celia Wade-Brown may cut councillors pay but also give each councillor at least one portfolio.
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Wade-Brown makes her mark
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- I find it somewhat frustrating that much of the reporting on the new council structure will focus on councillor’s remuneration, but I guess given the modern political environment of expense scandal after expense scandal, we should hardly be surprised.
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The not-so-secret lives of dancers
- The Wellingtonista
- The Royal New Zealand ballet’s been getting itself all kinds of attention lately, like with their Lady Gaga dance on YouTube, and the TV show The Secret Lives of Dancers.
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Fran Wilde re-elected as GW chair
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- While they haven’t updated their website yet (the new councillors are yet to be added), Greater Wellington Regional Council have just announced that Fran Wilde has been re-elected as the council’s chair for the coming triennium. I doubt anyone will be surprised.
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Government Minister goes troppo over council’s poison plans
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- Government Minister and United Future leader Peter Dunne has attacked the Wellington City Council and Kaori Wildlife Sanctury’s plan to poison Zealandia’s upper lake and streams with Rotenone.
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Dom Post wait until swearing in day to rain on new mayor’s parade
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- Today we posted on the Wellington City Council’s plans to cut 10% from its budget to pay down debt.
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An orderly handover of power
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- In a democracy the handover of power can be fast and brutal.
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Art Monsters
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- If you’re yet to venture down into the catacombs of Mygalaxi gallery at 39 Dixon St, this weekend might be a good opportunity.
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Flim Wellington!
- The Wellingtonista
- We get to keep The Hobbit.
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K Records documentary & Mirah at Happy
- The Wellingtonista
- A double dose from the influential and inspiring K Records out of Washington DC.
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Wellington On Screen
- The Wellingtonista
- NZ On Screen – the brilliant website dedicated to putting New Zealand film, television and music video online – is celebrating its second birthday.
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Jackson will never make the Hobbit on my watch
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- Who said that? a) Simon Whipp; b) Robyn Macdonald; c) Arthur Scargill; d) The Chairman of NewLine cinema The answer is d).
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Big cuts coming at Wellington City Council
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- It looks like Chief Executive Garry Poole is taking a leaf out of George Osborne’s (British Chancellor of the Exchequer) book rather than compatriot Bill English and is seeking 10% cuts at the council to fund a growing debt balance, projected to be $360 million next year.
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get excited and buy things
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- Spring is in the air and Craft2.
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A mouse calls Mayor Celia a dragon
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- Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
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Deputy Mayor elect Ian McKinnon prepares to cane Ray
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- The Dom Post reports that Celia Wade-Brown has nominated Holden Astra fan Ian McKinnon as Deputy Mayor.
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Roads not light rail looks set to dominate short-term agenda
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- Troops in mud – not unlike a visit to the Buckle Street war memorial on a rainy day.
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Ms Wade-Brown goes to Parliament
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- Something Kerry Prendergast would never do but new Mayor Celia Wade-Brown went down to Parliament on Wednesday to join the 22,000 protesters showing their distain for National’s pro-employer industrial relations policies.
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What If; The council elections had been FPP
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- The Dom Post today reports that businessman Graham Bloxham wants “to start a conversation” about the single transferable voting system.
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A leading Wellington artist Barry Thomas is being evicted by WCC for his art
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- Barry Thomas has been on the Wellington art scene since the 1970s.
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Litigation mad WCC fights 758 tenancy cases in less than 4 years
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- Government report Bigcities showed that 10 of New Zealand’s 12 largest cities have council supplied social housing.
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DomPost reports on WCC 2040 report
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- Following on from our comprehensive coverage of the report on Tuesday, the mainstream media have picked up on the report today, Thursday.
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Will you play, baby?
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington five-piece The Thomas Oliver Band have spent the past few years touring and playing live throughout New Zealand with the likes of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Gin Wigmore and Britain’s Oli Brown.
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Screaming Jets play Wellington, Sept/Oct 2011
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- No, this is not a post on the Aussie hard rock band Screaming Jets.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Kerry’s $46 million swansong causing blinding rage
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- The DomPost reports that Kilbirnie’s half-built indoor sports centre has a roof producing dangerous levels of glare for nearby residents, and potentially pilots at the nearby international airport.
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Looking at Wellington with 2040 vision
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- Feedback on the Council’s 2040 project has been released this week.
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The man in the pub
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- Have I mentioned that the 14 foot poster guy Adam Cunningham got 380 first preference votes in Lambton Ward, 15 more than the bottom ranked guy Kris Price who didn’t campaign at all. No. Well I just did.
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It’s the final countdown
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- Wellington City Council announce that it’s only six weeks until Manners Mall is no more and the buses will be zapping back and forth under their shiny new wires.
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Who owns the heritage Norfolk Pine at high risk of extinction?
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- On October 21, we posted a story about a rare public notification process for a resource consent being sought to chop down a heritage tree in Khandallah.
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Gordon Campbell’s take on local body politics
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- Veteran journalist Gorden Campbell’s analysis of the local government election results is well worth a read.
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Review: Inuit Time
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- While the Wells Group’s pro-unemployment installation piece continues to anger and bewilder ordinary, hardworking Kiwis, artistic mastermind Tao Wells continues to, er, work.
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Lone ranger shoots back
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- The Dom Post reports that Prime Minister John Key told TVNZ’s Breakfast programme the suggestion he was becoming a lone ranger was “a load of rubbish”.
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Wellington’s super secret super city report set for release in November
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- In the leadup to the recent local body elections, the regions’ mayors met in secret in October to consider a report on amalgamation.
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Japan City: the fruity fruits of globalisation
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- The former Hallensteins building on Cuba Mall has been undergoing a bit of a facelift, getting rid of its cute and interesting 1980s post-modern facade and replacing it with something that looks a lot less interesting (sob!) But what’s lost in the building has partly been made up for with its cheerful new tenant, the [...]
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Attack of the greenie hordes
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- Celia Wade-Brown’s campaign adviser Kent Duston has made a big impact this year and last.
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Getting off parking tickets – ask your council how
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- This year’s Ombudsmen annual report to Parliament, tabled last week, had an interesting discussion on the disclosure requirements around the rules governing parking ticket waivers (page 39).
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Parliamentary inquiry into 2010 local government elections
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- On Thursday, 14 October the Justice and Electoral Select Committee resolved to initiate an inquiry into the 2010 local authority elections, a regular inquiry it undertake every three years.
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The Beneficiary’s Office
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- Artist and provocateur Tao Wells is causing a mighty ruckus with his new art installation project, The Beneficiary’s Office. As part of the Letting Space programme – which pairs artists with unused commercial spaces – Wells has established a corporate office for the Wells Group, a PR company which argues that the unemployed are more [...]
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Metropolitan city council polls are becoming our ‘mid-term’ elections
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- The people have spoken and the last two years may not have been the easy ride polls have indicated.
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Paul Eagle tells the truth about DomPost howler
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- In response to our post on the “six rebel” councillors story, Cllr Eagle has replied and put a bomb under the entire Dompost article on Friday, which I see has been repeated again on Saturday.
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WCC’s angry communications
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- Now that we have a new, inclusive and some say “cuddly” Mayor, can we expect to get more friendly and inclusive communications from the Wellington City Council itself.
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Garry Poole is our dear leader, for now
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- The Weekend Dom Post ran a story about the outgoing Mayor’s final day, farewell tour of council offices, and drinks with staff.
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Tory paper smear campaign or inexperienced new Mayor
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- This morning the Dom Post reported that Mayor elect Celia Wade-Brown had not contacted a substantial number of councillors, despite having plenty of time to cycle round Civic Square on her push bike.
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WCC Wifi: Restricted, censored, limited
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- Back at the start of the election campaign, to much fanfare, the then Mayor Kerry Prendergast and Trade Me announced in September an initiative to bring free Wifi to the waterfront.
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Statement to WCC Watch from the Office of the Mayor
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- It appears the Dom Post’s story on candidate profiles was not entirely accurate.
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Wellington City parking supremo dies in Sydney
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- The founder of Tenix, Carlo Salteri, died on Tuesday night in Sydney, aged 89 according to a Sydney Morning Herald report.
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New and Re-elected councillor profiles
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- The DomPost today published mini profiles of all the new and re-elected Wellington City Councillors.
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Freedom of information – WCC is the worst city council in the country
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- Wellington City Council is the worst city council in New Zealand accounting for 17% of all Local Government and Official Information Act complaints to the Ombudsman.
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Green MPs jump on the bandwagon, late
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- It’s amazing how people love success.
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Wheel Stylish: the Cycle Chic Fashion Show
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- Fabulous fashion + beautiful bikes + Wellington women = Wheel Stylish! Bikes are back baby (not like they actually went anywhere) and there is *such* a range of cycling experiences to be had.
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All hail our new Green mayor
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- Earlier this afternoon, final results for the Wellington mayoral election were released.
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Celebrate a green Wellington with a green weekend
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- Admission to Wellington’s Kaori wildlife sanctuary, known by ad executives at the top end of town as Zealandia, is free for all locals this weekend. See your rates being spent and enjoy a breath of fresh air at the same time.
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Zealandia is freelandia
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- This weekend – 16 and 17 October, admission to Zealandia is free! Admission to Wellington’s world-first wildlife sanctuary, ZEALANDIA, is free for all locals this Saturday and Sunday! We are now 15 years into an incredible journey to restore a corner of NZ as closely as possible to the way it was before humans arrived.
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Live Brazil Festival 2010
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- Oi Galera! The 2010 Live Brazil festival kicks off tonight and runs until Sunday night. There will be Brazilian music, dance, and food — what more could you want? Most events will be at Estadio on Blair St (the former Temperance) but tonight’s performances are at Te Papa. Check out the programme.
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Congratulations Celia
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- Wellington has a new mayor in Celia Wade-Brown, ending Kerry Prendergast’s three term run. In the end she pulled through with a majority of 176 votes, which will hopefully be enough to starve off a recount – Wellington does not need that right now.
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Sun Araw (US) w, Orchestra of Spheres Thursday at Happy
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- Another excellent show on this Thursday – you can even make it after Flying Nun at City Gallery Wellington.
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Lunchtime Refuge
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- Lunchtime Refuge, originally uploaded by dubh.
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Mayor Kerry’s last words
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- Statement from Mayor Kerry Prendergast “It has been a fantastic honour to be Mayor of Wellington for the past nine years.
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Music vs Art = Open City
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- Flying Nun artist Grayson Gilmour City Gallery is currently exhibiting Roundabout, a major collection of bold, bright and wicked-as works from emerging artists from around the world.
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What’s up between Onslow candidates Mike and Andy
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- What’s up between Mike Flemming and Andy Foster and why do some candidates feel the need to mass email the rest of the candidates post election with their gripes (see Thomas Morgan below)? Is it a case of sour grapes? And when will some tell Mike not to put the message in the title space? Mike contested the Onslow-Western Ward and obtained 567 votes.
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A poor politician blames the electoral system
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- Following on from comments in yesterday’s Dom Post, they have followed up today with a front page story with Kerry blaming STV, not Celia, for any impending defeat (and her language seems to suggest she sees defeat as inveitable).
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775 heart beats to go
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- Radio NZ reports that election officials are checking 775 special votes to ensure they qualify for the counting stage, due to start on Wednesday afternoon. Some 963 special vote ballots were sent out, but 188 have been disqualified because they were not returned on time. It’s getting close to the end. Is your heart fluttering?
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Heritage tree to be axed in Khandallah
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- It’s time to stand up and be counted.
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Too crazy for words: Bly could toss Celia to victory
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- The DomPost is reporting Wellington’s mayoral race could be decided by a coin toss.
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Big Wednesday it is
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- The Herald reports that Wellington City Council spokesman Richard Maclean, a regular blogger on this site, said tonight counting the special votes was a “very complicated and extensive sort of process”.
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Celia’s overtures to Labour
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- Radio New Zealand has provided outstanding coverage of the local body elections, and have provided extensive coverage of the results.
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Poll mayhem has Kerry reaching for worry balls
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- At last coverage of the Wellington City Council elections is starting to heat up, two days after polls closed.
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Pardon our dust
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- We’ve got the movers in at Wellingtonista Towers. Please bear with us while we get things straightened out.
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Complain, complain, complain
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- Today unsuccessful, serial candidate Thomas Morgan, who received 96 votes in Southern Ward, emailed all councillors and candidates asking them to complain or raise issues about the election if they had any.
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Too close to call?
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- The Dom Post have finally decided to take a proper interest in the race to be the next Mayor of Wellington.
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Deadly decisions
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- The thing with theatre is you have to make up your mind to go and not prevaricate, seasons are short and good shows sell out.
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District Health Board
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- It was good to see an article this morning discussing the Capital & Coast District Health Board results.
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Deadly decisions
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- The thing with theatre is you have to make up your mind to go and not prevaricate, seasons are short and good shows sell out.
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10/10/10
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- I think it is safe to say a few of us were snoozing at 10:10 on 10/10/10 (I think it is also safe to say a few of us were snoozing as the deadline to register for local body elections passed…) However more than a few people have been spending the day taking some practical action against climate change the old fashioned way with the 350 Global Climate Working Bee.
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Soundstage: Strike Percussion and Warren Maxwell
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- Wellington musical collaborations are so hot right now, with the pulsing funked out drama of Eru Dangerspiel cramming more than 15 musicians and a damn choir onto the stage at the Town Hall last night and Rhian Sheehan’s outstanding show at the Opera House in June it seems that being all lush and orchestral and big is, well, big.
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Soundstage: Strike Percussion and Warren Maxwell
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- Wellington musical collaborations are so hot right now, with the pulsing funked out drama of Eru Dangerspiel cramming more than 15 musicians and a damn choir onto the stage at the Town Hall last night and Rhian Sheehan’s outstanding show at the Opera House in June it seems that being all lush and orchestral and big is, well, big.
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40 votes: now what?
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- So after an intensely frustrating day for local politics anoraks, as every other city got to find out who its mayor was going to be, the preliminary Wellington results have been announced, and we have.
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40 votes: now what?
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- So after an intensely frustrating day for local politics anoraks, as every other city got to find out who its mayor was going to be, the preliminary Wellington results have been announced, and we have… …no winner? With all the other candidates knocked out and their preferences redistributed (this might be a good time to brush up on how STV works if you’ve forgotten) Kerry Prendergast is ahead of Celia Wade-Brown, 24,468 votes to 24,428. Yes, that’s a 40-vote gap. And what’s more—all the votes haven’t actually been counted yet. Say what? Update: The preliminary results are now up on elections2010.co.nz and the City Council website. And we’ve added a roundup of the council results down the bottom. What are the uncounted votes? There appear to be about 900 special votes still to be counted. We don’t have an exact number. Because the third-placed candidate, Jack Yan, is far behind the top two, all that matters is whether the special voters ranked Kerry or Celia higher. Additionally, votes that are postmarked today will be counted when they arrive. Nobody knows how many of these there are. So who’s going to win? Celia needs to get slightly more than half of the uncounted votes (about 55%, or 491, if there are 900 of them) to win. Otherwise, Kerry wins. Conventional wisdom says special votes usually favour ‘the left’. We’re sending a minion to research how the special votes broke in the last couple of elections and will post about that when we know. When will we find out who won? The only media coverage we’ve seen of this is a tweet from @NZStuff saying the election “may not be decided until Wednesday”. Update: The Dom Post is now reporting that special vote counting will begin on Monday. But the City Council Twitter feed said Kerry had been re-elected! Yes, and that’s very naughty of them. (Addendum: see this comment thread.) How many people voted? According to the Council website, 44,465 people had voted as of Thursday, about 33% turnout. That’s not counting however many more votes turned up on Friday and Saturday, but still—shame on the other two-thirds of you. Update: It appears the last two days of voting brought turnout up to about 40%. What about the Council? According to the preliminary results… Eastern Ward: Leonie Gill and Ray Ahipene-Mercer have been re-elected. Simon “Swampy” Marsh has knocked off Rob Goulden. Lambton Ward: Ian McKinnon and Iona Pannett have been re-elected. Stephanie Cook appears to have been re-elected as well, but she didn’t make it past Marcus Ganley until everyone else was eliminated, and if there are enough specials there’s an outside chance Ganley could sneak past her. Michael Fowler, if you’re wondering, came fifth behind Ganley. Northern Ward: Hayley Wain is out, pushed into fifth place behind Gareth no-not-that-one Morgan and newcomer Justin Lester, who topped the poll. Helene Ritchie and Ngaire Best have been re-elected. Onslow-Western Ward: Andy Foster, Jo Coughlan, and John Morrison have all been re-elected. Southern Ward: Bryan Pepperell has been re-elected. Paul Eagle has taken Celia Wade-Brown’s vacated seat.
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Regional Council Results
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- Let’s not forget that the regional council results also came out yesterday.
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Results are coming in…
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- The council will be announcing the preliminary result at 6pm. Any last minute predictions? Over the next few days we’ll be trying to do a few email interviews with new (and possibly re-elected) councillors. Does anyone have suggestions for questions?
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Reflection on the results
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- Well after a very long wait the WCC have announced the preliminary results.
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Voting returns update #5 – last minute surge
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- The council have updated their voting returns page with the figures for Thursday.
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Heros and villians, winners and losers
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- We are now in the very final stretch, less than 24 hours until polls close, and we may have some preliminary results by this time tomorrow. Feel free to use the comments thread on this post to discuss who you think will win and lose. Even better if you can back your predicions up with a logic! We will attempt to do live blogging tomorrow, no promises though.
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Code of conduct complaint?
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- We’ve had a few emails regarding Rob Goulden’s behaviour over the last few days. In particular, a few people have asked if his masquerading as other people is a breach of the council’s Code of Conduct. One way to find out would be to lay a complaint with CE Garry Poole. Anyone want to test the water? Has anyone done so already?
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Johnny: Back from top level meetings
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- Sorry everyone for missing all the excitement last night and today.
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Dom Post on Rob/James/Kerry Goulden
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- The Dom Post have published a story on the news that Rob Goulden has been making up fake identities to push his own agenda… Wellington city councillor Rob Goulden used fake internet identities to issue a homophobic insult, personal attacks, and push his message that he’s a good, hard-working bloke.
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WCC website survey
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- We had some interesting discussions about open democracy the other day, flowing on from some policy ideas from Marcus Ganley.
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Bishop and Ganley reflect residents serious concerns about city parking
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- One of the worst statistics in the WCC’s 2009/10 annual report is residents satisfaction with the availability of car parks.
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Who to vote for – a hard left femisist view
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- Maia at The Hand Mirror, a left wing feminist blog, has written a great post on who she’s chosen to vote for in the WCC elections (living in the Lambton Ward).
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The many faces of Goulden
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- As readers of this blog will have noticed, there have been many times where councillors, council staff and members of the public have left comments voicing their own opinion, adding additional facts or to simply point or errors or omissions where we get things wrong.
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Capital Times Best of Wellington 2010
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- The Capital Times have released the results of their annual Best of Wellington survey for 2010.
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Who’s working the hardest for you?
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- The table below shows the meeting attendance statistics for elected members of Wellington City Council for the 2009/10 financial year, as set out in the Council’s annual report governance section.
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Cast your vote at the council offices or a library asap
- WCC Watch
- All voting documents must be in the hands of the Electoral Officer by 12 noon on Saturday, 9 October 2010.
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WCC – Will the last one out turn off the lights
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- Staff turnover in the last four years has accumulated to a shocking 100% at the Council, according to this week’s annual report.
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Get out of jail free card
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- Today it was announced by the Police that no offence has been disclosed regarding the free mayoral concert.
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Pre-election information enables freedom of choice
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- But does Wellington City Council think ignorance is bliss? The Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill is currently before Parliament’s Local Government and Environment Select Committee.
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Voting returns update #4 – great leap forward
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- The council have now processed the votes that were sent in over the weekend, and it was a rather substantial number. From the council: “The latest batch of votes takes this year’s total higher than 2007 so far – when 23.6 percent of votes were returned.”
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Getting blind-eaten
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- The very choice Mattgeeknz has written a guest review for us, because we knew we'd be unable to write a review about being blindfolded and sticking everything put in front of us in our mouths without being smutty about it.
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Miss Fag Hag 2010 – Club Ivy – Saturday 9 October
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- The search for a gay man’s best friend in Wellington is on again with Aaron and Andy’s fourth annual Miss Fag Hag taking place at Club Ivy, 13 Dixon Street, this Saturday, 9 October.
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Getting blind-eaten
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- The very choice Mattgeeknz has written a guest review for us, because we knew we’d be unable to write a review about being blindfolded and sticking everything put in front of us in our mouths without being smutty about it.
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Oi, have you voted yet?
- The Wellingtonista
- Y’know, it’s not often that I’d ever consider running a Wellington City Council press release in full, but I’m going to do it right now, cos BLOODY HELL, Wellington, get your act together! PS: this is how to work your STV vote, explained quite simply.
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Fowler endorses Yan
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- 3 News (seriously) are reporting that Sir Michael Fowler has endorsed Jack Yan for the Mayoralty.
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BBQ season and Garry Poole needs a grilling
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- In August the DomPost ran an editorial calling for the Wellington CEO to get a grilling.
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Marcus Ganley has a good idea
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- I see that one of the Lambton Ward candidates is campaigning for more openess and transparency at Wellington City Council and has a poll running on the sorts of things that should be more open such as payments made to councillors and voting records. Might be worth a look and a vote. If he doesn’t make it, it would be good for someone to pick up these proposals.
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Meet Wellington’s Chief Mr Bean Counter
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- For most of this year the city’s chief financial officer Peter Garty has been in discussions behind closed doors about Terry Serepisos’ rates debt to the council.
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Oi, have you voted yet?
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Voting returns update #3
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- The latest voting returns are up on the council website.
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Super Wellington Update: Super good or super bad
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- Today the regions mayors consider a PricewaterhouseCoopers report on amalgamtion.
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Cronyism or considered response?
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- This mornings Dom Post is reporting that WCC CEO Gary Poole has ‘cleared’ Kerry Prendergast over last week’s complain from Bryan Pepperell that she was abusing her power as mayor to secure her reelection.
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Do lies come with that shake?
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- You may have seen a lifestyle column in this weekend's DomPost where Hadyn Jones bemoaned the "fact" that you can't get milkshakes at cafés in Wellington, and blamed this on the idea that Wellingtonians are too cool and stuck-up for such things.
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Mayor Kerry wants a GG for Christmas
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- Sources close to WCC Watch have suggested that Prime Minister John Key wants to appoint a woman as next Governor-General, and Kerry Prendergast is high on his list.
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Carry on abusing electoral law
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- Just after we posted on excessive numbers of press releases and launches by Wellington City Council during the election period, featuring the Mayor and other elected respresentatives like John Morrison, it appears the Mayor is at it again.
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Something lighthearted for a Sunday…
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- Wellington’s best dressed mayoral candidate.
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Kerry and the Audits – Their Greatest Hits
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- Audit Office guidelines for the local government election period are quite clear.
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What's happened to Offbeat Originals?
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- What's happened to Offbeat Originals? A sign has appeared on the door of the TAWA-nominated cafe advising the popular joint is "closed until further notice".
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Wellingtonista on the telly
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- Last night, our fearless editoress Joanna appeared on Media7.
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Earthquake Weather in Wellington?
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- Cliffhanger is the only way to describe the mayoral vote in Wellington.
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