"Empowering local government to make decisions about their own communities is what this Government campaigned on and is not being delivered today.
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Today’s announcement is a skewed version of democracy that isn’t used to determine any other wards or constituencies, just Māori ones. We say the Government needs to either apply them to all wards or none at all."
I'm starting to hatch a plan where a group of tech savvy #LibreSoftware adherents stage an intervention at #LGNZ (the Local Gov't Agency) & require all council digital tech procurement staff to do a course on how the digital world/business really works (which we will develop) & then they have to reapply for their roles before they can waste another cent of taxpayer $. Because the current crop give absolutely no indication of being competent. We haven't got time for more of this shit.