Basic service provider or mini democracy? Why NZ needs to decide what it wants from local government
- Written by Jeffrey McNeill, Honorary Research Associate, School of People, Environment and Planning, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s recent challenge to local government “to rein in the fantasies and to get back to delivering the basics brilliantly” was unsurprising, given his government’s focus on fiscal restraint.
It was in keeping with his announcement that councils’ legislative purpose of delivering their...





