Corrupt ECan Councillor Mark Oldfield, who was recently named by the Auditor-General as having a serious conflict of interest over water [PDF] will not be standing for re-election. Good riddance. People like that have no place in our public sphere and should be driven out.
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- Canterbury is now a dictatorship
- Conflicted
- A stupid, empty threat
- Foreshore & Seabed v2.0
- Frantic over nothing
- No members day again
- Nick Smith doesn't trust democracy
- The Canterbury dictatorship bill
- Key lied about mining donations
- DPF doesn't care about democracy
- A gaping hole in the BORA
- Fiji on the Rakaia
- Reminder: Anti-mining protest today in Wellington
- Leave medical decisions to clinicians
- Reality trumps satire again
- "A postcard on Eden Park"
- New Fisk
- Reported back
- Graham on ECan and sustainability
- New Fisk
- The ugly face of the American right
- A good idea
- Racing for the last fish
- The right to die
- Some "analysis"
- Arresting Blair
- Brownlee lied
- Protest to protect our national parks on Tuesday
- Yours, not mines
- Greenpeace's dubious fundraising
- Three strikes?
- Discriminatory, unjustified, sadistic
- Paying the price
- Billions from nowhere
- Digging up our natural heritage... for shingle
- Mission accomplished
- A question
- The return of the nasty party
- Underwhelmed by "reform"
- This is just the beginning
- Labour steps up on mining
- Submit!
- "Hysteria" becomes policy
- Government sucking up to Fiji
- Fiji: Peceli Rinakama is still missing
- More UK torture
- New Fisk
- Shitting in our water
- New Fisk
- No opposition allowed in Samoa
- Worrying IV
- Winning a battle, losing the war
- The PM's private spy agency
- Ending youth-pay discrimination for good
- New Fisk
- ACT and democracy
- National's forced moderation
- Worrying III
- Shameful
- Waihopai three acquitted!
- The sinking lid is back
- Inconsistent
- Some better ideas
- Worrying II
- National hates Members Day
- Fiji: Where is Peceli Rinakama?
- A good idea
- How much is it all worth?
- Exclusive: An appropriate process?
- Burying the death penalty
- Peter Bethune
- No control
- Worrying
- Government of orcs
- New Fisk
- Completely out of touch
- Expenses fraud here and there
- Offensive, but not unlawful
- Bigots hurt everyone
- A giant effluent pond
- Rinakama in custody
- A warning on social mobility
- National to Auckland: Fuck you
- The UK's racist police
- Gerrymandering Auckland
- Censorship started in secret
- An apology
- Oppose National's support for whaling
- Fiji: A kangaroo court
- Reminder: Drinking Liberally in Wellington tomorrow
- Peceli Rinakama
- Edwards on Heatley
- New Fisk
- Disconnection is disproportionate
- No democracy in the supercity
- Mind the gap
- The politics of fairness
- New Fisk
- National supports whaling
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