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MIKE LEE is the closest Auckland has come to a socialist leader since Mayor “Robbie” (Sir Dove Meyer Robinson) back in the 1970s. As Chair of the Auckland Regional Council Mike made sure Auckland’s municipal resources remained in Aucklanders’ hands. Not surprisingly the neoliberal powers-that-be (in both their centre-left and centre-right incarnations) hated him.
It is most unlikely that their opinion of Mike has changed – not since his recent revelation that, since its formation in 2010, the Auckland “Supercity” has transferred roughly $10 billion from the pockets of residents and ratepayers into the bank accounts of mostly foreign-owned corporations.
As Mike rightly points out, it was to facilitate just such a colossal transfer of wealth that the Supercity was created. Its whole structure was carefully designed to disconnect as far as possible the Council’s democratic components from its day-to-day decision-making machinery – the stuff that really matters. In pa
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Labour Government s light rail backtrack deserves praise. Now it must deliver
3 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Transport Minister Michael Wood. Photo / Mark Mitchell
OPINION:
Hold off on ridiculing the Government for scratching their light rail plans and starting again. This decision deserves praise. It takes a certain amount of courage to admit you ve got it wrong and need to go back to the drawing board, especially when you know it ll open you up to ridicule. And that s exactly what s happened. Critics are having a field day.
That s the Government s own fault. Light rail is a broken promise. The first promise Jacinda Ardern made as Labour leader in 2017 was that light rail would be up and running by 2021. Far from that, there isn t even a shovel in the ground in 2021. Light rail is a symbol - a bit like KiwiBuild but not quite as bad - of the Sixth Labour Government s inability to deliver.
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