Yan again the key to Wade-Brown election win October 24, 2013 Celia Wade-Brown’s victory in the mayoral race was not as substantial as first seemed. Using election-night figures, her lead over her nearest rival, John Morrison, was 2284 votes, but she had only 1142 votes more ...
Why more people don’t vote October 17, 2013 Getting people to vote in council elections has long been a problem. Last week’s elections showed it had not gone away.
The case for taking an interest in elected bodies that tax every household and business ...
Preferences decisive for mayoralty October 3, 2013 No-one has been elected as mayor of Wellington with a simple majority of votes on the first count since elections were first held under the preferential voting system in 2004.
Under the single transferable vote system, ...
Even the information is cut August 7, 2009 Documents released about Budget decisions in education have been gutted by deletion of information.
In the Budget 2009 line-by-line review of education spending made public by the Treasury, there are 86 deletions in 78 pages, including ...