Submissions to the Review into the Future for Local Government

You talk of democracy yet you change the legislation so that the ratepayers can't have their say on Three waters via a local body referendum. Any changes you want to make to local government now should not be supported by citizens following the Three waters debacle. The Labour circus and current overseers of local bodies do not know the meaning of democracy.

NZ Government, local and central, are not to be trusted when it comes to changing things. If it aint broke, don't try to fix it !

At 16% or so of the population, why does everything have to have Maori at its core ? And don't talk about the fake treaty partnership. Queen Victoria did not enter into partnership with her subjects.

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See above. Not everyone wants or needs to speak Maori in this country even though it's force-fed to us every waking moment of the day through state controlled media.

Local and central government is hardly trusted any more in this country due to past decisions being made dictatorially instead of democratically.
Nothing you might do can undo the harm that's already been caused.

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There is nothing in the treaty that indicated that Queen Victoria had a treaty partner let alone anything about New Zealand being co-governed. The sooner New Zealand wakes up to this try-hard takeover by stealth, the sooner we start working together again as a unified community.

It's not all about brainwashing the workers about the Maori people these days. It's more about spreading fairy tales to try to implement a disastrous outcome for New Zealand.

You've already changed the rules undemocratically to have Maori automatically elected to councils. When will there ever be an end to your unethical meddling.

Once again, it's all about the Maori. What about the rest of New Zealand ??

Nonsense once again.

Another fairy tale

It aint broke so don't try to fix it

Why are Maori values any better than European values ? or Chinese values ? or Indian values ?

Put it to the people via a referendum.

Who knows until you ask what the people want.

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Nonsense

Leave councils to decide what's required after they listen to their ratepayers.

They're there to look after infrastructure not to worry about someone's wellbeing. That's what doctors etc are for.

Forget it

Nonsense

A total lack of democracy, demonstrated deceitfully by both local and central government in the past three years.

There is no mandate for a partnership - fairy tales abound about it though.

Democracy and truth. In that regard, there won't be a new system.

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There's enough of that going on in local government now thanks.

Nonsense

You have to trust the current government to make those sort of changes. At present no one does.

It aint broke so don't try to fix it

Where's the extra money coming from - Jacinda's famous money tree ??

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Both central and local government can't be trusted to do anything democratically any more. If you could trust them, some of those points above would be helpful.

No treaty partnership ever existed - fairy tale

No, the local government commission should stay right away. Their advice can't be trusted as truly independent. They've shown that democracy is not a core value any longer.

Democracy rules

Look up the meaning of democracy please.

Wellbeing should be a central government issue

An honest, democratic one

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Leave things alone.

We don't. It's a false concept.

Bring back democracy.

No

No, as long as the democratic process is followed.

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