Elections 2010


Appointments to CCO boards
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Directors and chairmen for the super-city’s council-controlled organisations (CCOs) have been agreed by the Cabinet.

Who's on super-city boards
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Auckland Council Investments Ltd (ACIL), Auckland International Airport Ltd (AIAL), Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development Ltd (TEED) and more.

Answers to CCO questions
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
A council-controlled organisation (CCO) is a company or organisation that one or more local authorities control 50 per cent or more of the votes, or have the right to appoint 50 per cent or more, of the directors (or trustees).

Meet village team
Monday, 30 August 2010
There's a new team on the political landscape and its members have reputations for getting things done.

Four decades of service
Friday, 27 August 2010
The blots on the landscape, known as election hoardings, are here, and one man who won’t miss the petty disagreements over billboard statements and positioning is John Skelton.

Question candidates at meeting
Friday, 27 August 2010
A chance to meet local candidates standing as councillors for the new super-city is coming up.

It's all about community
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
A background in transport policy and community event organisation will come to the table if David Collings wins a seat on the new Auckland Council.

Candidates for super-city
Monday, 23 August 2010
Nominations have closed for election to the new Auckland Council, with people being able to vote by post for three weeks from September 17 to noon on election day, October 9.

Top backing for Brown
Monday, 23 August 2010
Two former Governor-Generals are backing Len Brown’s bid to become super-city mayor.

Super-city benefits 'go downtown'
Monday, 23 August 2010
Most development in the new super-city is likely to occur in central Auckland, which will cost people in outlying areas but be of little benefit to them.

Sir Barry to stand for super-city
Friday, 20 August 2010
With a commitment to stop Auckland’s power base shifting into the downtown city, Sir Barry Curtis is pitching for a comeback in local government.

Past mayor's legacy to the community
Monday, 16 August 2010
Directing Manukau City through its infant years when it was mostly green fields can be sheeted back to the city’s visionary mayor, the late Sir Lloyd Elsmore.

Road board to super-city
Monday, 16 August 2010
Howick's transfer from a sprawling southern city to an even larger super-city comes in the wake of a long history of local-body change.

From farms to sprawl
Monday, 16 August 2010
The original heart of the south-eastern ward of the new super-city was in the settlement it is named after, Howick.

Direct and to point
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Andrew Williams does not mince his words. That’s his style. Direct. The first-term Mayor of North Shore, who’s running as a super-city mayoralty candidate, says his speech at a recent local government conference in Auckland was a “stinging” attack of the Government and Rodney Hide.

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