Rates will never be enough – councils need the power to raise money in other ways
- Written by Guy C. Charlton, Adjunct Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology and Associate Professor, University of New England
Getty ImagesYou might have recently received voting papers for your local body elections. Going by our historically low participation rates, many of those envelopes will remain unopened.
This is a shame, because New Zealand’s local authorities face major financial challenges that affect nearly everyone. Only by increasing democratic...
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