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Local government touches people's lives every day.
With 85 councils across Aotearoa-New Zealand, local government represents a critical democratic mechanism and experience in people’s lives. The diversity of business and activity undertaken by local government in New Zealand is profound, and has been enabled through the Local Government Act 2002. The purpose of local government in New Zealand is twofold:
- To enable democratic local decision-making and action by, and on behalf of, communities; and
- To promote the social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of communities, in the present and for the future (Source: Local Govt Act 2002, section 10)
The Local Government Centre is hosted by the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) within the AUT University. IPP provides independent research and advice on economic and social development in New Zealand and comparative countries. This is a very compatible fit with the Local Government Centre aspirations, which are to build a New Zealand based cluster of expertise on local government and governance.
Importantly, Local Government Centre staff will actively forge working relationships with private and public sector agencies, and with councils, so as to enhance and strengthen the capacity of local authorities to effectively deliver upon their statutory duties.
For more information, download a pdf document under the following: Work Focus, teaching, consulting, national linkages, international linkages, brief history of Local Government Centre.
CONTACT
Robin Hannah: 09-921-9999 ext. 6589 or
click here
or
Peter McKinlay
click here
MPhil
in Local Government
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26 March 2010
Submission to the Auckland Transition Agency on CCOs and Local Boards here.
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12 Feb 2010
Submission
on the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill
available here.
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14 - 15 December 2009
Roundtable on Metropolitan
Governance in Sydney
Details and downloads here
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11 December 2009
Submission on the Proposal for the Establishment of Local Boards in Auckland
available here.
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Seminar 6 October 2009
The Super City Select Committee - The Super City Structure. . .
Mayor, Council and Local Boards
This Seminar brought together the expertise of Kensington Swan's local government, infrastructure and government relations teams, and the research and policy skills of the Local Government Centre to provide you with a unique opportunity to consider how best to prepare for the new Super City structure established under the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009. More info here. ______________________
Peter McKinlay, Director of the Local
Government Centre,
was involved in a panel
discussion on Auckland as a super city which took place on 26 March 2009 on radio New Zealand's 9 to noon programme. This transcript is now available here. Other discussants were Greg Allen, Executive Director of the Local Government Association of QLD and Paul Rouse from the Auckland Business School.
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Census Data
Latest New Zealand census stats for local government available here
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