Useful Resources and Links

Below is a list of documents and web links which anyone interested in local government,
both nationally and internationally, might find interesting. If you have additions you think
should be on this, please contact Nic Mason. Click here to go back to the Local
Government page.

UK Well-being policy manifesto

NEW ZEALAND
NZ Treasury - Economics of Population Ageing 02 (pdf 368kb)
Home Equity Release - Davey Report 2005 (pdf 692kb)

AUSTRALIA
ALGA ageing action plan 04 (Word doc 48kb)
Australian Intergenerational Full Report 2007 (pdf 1.6mb)
Australian Intergenerational Overview 2007 (pdf 208kb)
Australian Intergenerational Summary 2007 (pdf 68kb)
Australian Productivity Commission Ageing Report, Appts & Refs (pdf 348kb)
Australian Productivity Commission Ageing Report, Ch1 - 5 (pdf 1.2mb)
Australian Productivity Commission Ageing Report, Ch6 - 13 (pdf 1.1mb)
Australian Productivity Commission Ageing Report, Overview (pdf 316kb)
Queensland Ageing Report 2003 (pdf 192kb)
NSW LG ageing and place Oct 04 (pdf 380kb)

INTERNATIONAL
Canada - Issues for Older Persons 2000 (Word doc 48kb)
OECD Ageing Population 2005 (pdf 104kb)
Retiree Attractions Strategies Article 2004 (USA) (pdf 52kb)
UK Extending Working Life Literature Review 2005 (pdf 704kb)
UK Measuring Resources Older People 2007 (pdf 180kb)

Service Driven Asset Management Pt 1- Opus 07 (pdf 1.2mb)
Service Driven Asset Management Pt 2 - Opus 07 (pdf 828kb)

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Australian 2002 towards benchmarking system (pdf 624kb)
UK Guide for developing new indicators (Word doc 44kb)
UK Library of Local Performance Indicators (link to doc)
UK Performance Management for Councillors (link to pdf)
UK Performance Management for Managers (link to pdf)

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NEW ZEALAND
Community Cohesion for children, young people and their families (pdf 860kb)
NZ 'Putting Pen to Paper' Courtney 2006 (weblink)
Maori Participation NZ Electoral Commission (weblink)
Cheyne & Tawhai, 2007. Maori Engagement With Local Government (pdf 824kb)
Ministry of Social Development's Involvement in the Community
Outcome Process Aug 2007(Word doc 724 kb)
Planning & Designing Engagement Processes: A full SDC guide: Stages 1 - 4 (pdf 228kb)

AUSTRALIA
Australia Institute of Social Research - Citizenship and Government (weblink)
Australia LGA Services for All (weblink)
Brisbane Knowledge City - Role of Community (pdf 3.3mb)
Hard to Reach 2005 (Word doc 180kb)
Community Consultation and the Hard to Reach (pdf 496kb)

INTERNATIONAL
Citizen Participation - Irvin & Stansbury (weblink)
European Report on Economic and Social Cohesion 2007 (weblink pdf 5.1mb)
Conference on Engaging Communities, Brisbane, Australia (weblink)
Nova Scotia Voluntary Planning (Word doc 36kb)
UK Audit Commission Community Engagement (weblink)
UK Institute of Local Government Studies - governance and citizen engagement (weblink)
UK Social Interactions - Public Places (pdf 1.9mb)

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Australia LGA Services for All (weblink)
Canada: Moving Forward: Executive Summary 2006 (pdf 612kb)

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NEW ZEALAND
NZ Funding Issues - Alternative Tax Bases 2006 (pdf 1.2mb)
NZ Funding Issues - 1st Report 2005 (pdf 180kb)
NZ Funding Issues - 2nd Report 2006 (pdf 1.1mb)
NZ Independent Inquiry into Local Government Rates (weblink)
Final Submission to Rating Enquiry April 07 - McKinlay Douglas Ltd (Word doc 152kb)
Resource Paper towards Rating Enquiry - McKinlay Douglas Ltd (Word doc 420kb)
Local Government Rates Inquiry 31 July 2007 (weblink)
Local Government Funding - McKinlay Douglas Ltd (Word doc 544kb)
Scoping Paper for Rates Review - McKinlay Douglas Ltd (Word doc 52kb)
Terms of Reference - Press Statement (Word doc 40kb)
Terms of Reference for Local Government Review (Word doc 60kb)

AUSTRALIA
Assessing Local Govt Revenue Raising Capacity (pdf 164kb)
PriceWaterhouse Cooper NSW Financial Sustainability Report 06 (pdf 1.5mb)
Financial Sustainability Report Overview (pdf 420kb)

INTERNATIONAL
California Property tax fall-out 1995 (weblink)
Irish LG Financial Inquiry Report Oct 05 (Word doc 3.6mb)
Scottish Funding Report 2006 (pdf 688kb)
UK International Comparisons of LG Finance (pdf 304kb)
UK International Comparisions of Funding Reform (pdf 1.5mb)
UK Lyons 2006 Chapter 1 Future Challenges for Govt & Public Services (pdf 124kb)
UK Lyons 2006 Chapter 2 The Benefit of Local Choice in Public Services (pdf 196kb)
UK Lyons 2006 Chapter 3 Place-Shaping: What do we want LG to do? (pdf 208kb)
UK Lyons 2006 Chapter 4 Who needs to change? (pdf 200kb)
UK Lyons 2005 Options for Reforming Local Government Funding (pdf 580kb)
UK pre-Lyons papers 2004 Balance of Funding Report (pdf 408kb)
UK pre-Lyons papers 2003 Balance of Funding Issues (pdf 1.7mb)
UK Lyons Inquiry into Local Government (weblink)
US Local Government Finance Issues - Bish (pdf 48kb)
US Local Revenue Diversification 1988 (pdf 4.1mb)
US Sample Local Income Taxes 2006 (pdf 16kb)

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NEW ZEALAND
The evolving role of local authority chief executive officers in Auckland - Andy Asquith (pdf 150kb)
Governance for Economic Development in Auckland April 2008 (pdf 864kb)
Local Government Centre submission to Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, 22 April 2008 (Word doc 460kb)
NZ - Ingley & Van der Walt - Board dynamics & the Politics of Appraisal 2002 (pdf 153kb)
Bush - University of Auckland - the Notion of Adequacy in Local Government 1980 (pdf 2.1mb)
CLGF Local Democracy and Good Governance in the Pacific (pdf 760kb)
One Auckland Local Authority Governance (PowerPoint doc 3.6mb)
Strengthening Auckland's Regional Governance - Report on Progress May 2007 (pdf 344kb)
Auckland Governance final report by Councils 22 June 2007 (Word doc 156kb)
Co-Management Case Studies Involving Local Authorities and Maori, Jan 2007 (pdf 208kb)
Local Government Structure and Efficiency 24 Sept 06 (Word doc 936kb)
NZ Metropolitan Government & Strategic Planning (pdf 108kb)

INTERNATIONAL
Greg Clark - International Case Studies of City-Regions Nov 2006 (pdf 1.3mb)
Greg Clark - Commentary Strengthening Auckland Nov 2006 (Word doc 156kb)
UK - Can we deliver on Governance? Gerry Stoker 2006 Manchester (weblink)
UK - How Local Communities Run Public Services (weblink)
UK - Idea Governance (weblink)
UK - Institute of Local Government Studies - Governance, Citizen Engagement (weblink)
UK - Political Skills Toolkit (pdf 420kb)
UK - Devolution and Competitiveness - Turok 2005 (pdf 252kb)
UK - Implications of Local Devolution for Efficiency and Effectiveness 2005 (pdf 312kb)
UK - New Localism - Local Governance Chapter 2 (pdf 3.2mb)
UK - Vol 1, Strong and Prosperous Communities - White paper 15.04.98 (pdf 1.6mb)
The Governance of Britain, presented to parliament July 07 (pdf 208kb)

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NEW ZEALAND
Child Impact Reporting (Word doc 108kb)
Supporting Local Authorities to Assess the Impact of their Activities on Children: A literature review (doc 1.8 mb)

INTERNATIONAL
UK - Scottish Children's Rights (pdf 1.7mb)
UK - Every Child's Future Matters (pdf 3.3mb)

Commonwealth Local Govt Research Seminar - Project Abstracts March 2007 (pdf 376kb)
CLGF Auckland March 2007 - Sunday Slides (pdf 784kb)

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The future governance of the Auckland region: a discussion paper on possible options (2008) (pdf 404kb)
A discussion paper on amalgamation: lessons from international experience (2008) (440 kb)
A discussion paper on possible options for local governance - the role of scale, function and engagement in effective local governance (2008) (pdf 492kb)
Different options for the structure of Auckland local government: observations on governance (2008) (pdf 292kb)
Submission to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance from the Local Government Centre (2008) (pdf 540kb)
Hearings Material (2008) (pdf 148kb)

UK Councillors and Partnering (weblink)
UK Evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships (pdf 1mb)
UK Executive Summary Evaluation of Strategic Partnerships (pdf 276kb)

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Canadian Service Delivery (pdf 3.5mb)
Manchester Choice in Public Services (pdf 644kb)
Strategic Housing and Place Shaping (UK) (pdf 320kb)

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UK Lyons Inquiry into Local Government (weblink)

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Australia - VicHealth Leading the Way - Resource Pack Part 1 (pdf 468kb)
Australia - VicHealth Leading the Way - Resource Pack Part 2 (pdf 444kb)
Australia - VicHealth Leading the Way - Prompting Questions (weblink)
Australia - A planning resource with a focus on health promotion and community development (weblink)
Smart Growth - USA (weblink)
UK - Evaluation of the Wellbeing Power Baseline Report 05 (pdf 968kb)
UK - Evaluation of the Wellbeing Power Evaluation Framework (pdf 492kb)
UK - White Paper - Strong and Prosperous Communities Oct 06 Vol 1 (pdf 1.6mb)
UK - White Paper - Strong and Prosperous Communities Oct 06 Vol 2 (pdf 624kb)

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UK Eddington Review Policies (pdf 1.7mb)
UK Eddington Transport Summary Report (pdf 2mb)