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SUBMISSIONS
17-Jul-11
Submission to Far North District Council   by Editor
The Far North District Council are making every move to allow the community to become more directly involved in determining what they want within the budgets available.
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26-Jun-09
Submission to the Select Committee: Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill
Serious consideration should be given to the potential flow on impacts of adopting a unique Auckland approach on the total local government environment in New Zealand.
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16-Jun-09
Northland Regional Council LTCCP Submission 2009
NRC is one of the better Councils in the country and this submission reflects that. Issues about river management, broadband, regional development, and local government rationalisation are discussed.
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16-Jun-09
Review of the Emissions Trading Scheme Supplementary 2009
The Select Committee requested more information from the submission presented by the Centre for Resource Management Studies which we supported. We were very please that the Committee considered the information presented was worth further investigation. Written by Owen McShane he has been providing FNZ with excellent advice since our inception.
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16-Jun-09
Select Committee: Review of the Emission Trading Scheme 2009
The government’s determination to proceed with an emissions trading market will have a dramatic effect on the nation’s investment and purchasing habits. The costs to our economy could be measured in the billions of dollars. An economy that you are no doubt aware is already suffering from extremely poor productivity, low wage rates, and a high cost of investment capital.
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16-Jun-09
Kaipara District Council Submission LTCCP 2009
A hard hitting submission to a Council we consider struggling with both poor leadership and management. We discuss the state of the economy, poor infrastructure spending, the district plan among many areas of concern.
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16-Jun-09
Whangarei District Council SUbmission LTCCP 2009
Debt, sewerage, rubbish disposal, regulatory services, roading, events centre, local government restructure, district plan,
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11-Apr-08
Submission on Review of Land-based Education and Training Provision   by FNZ Policy
The Tertiary Education Commission is reviewing the provision of tertiary education and training in the agricultural sector. We support the need to improve both access and quality standards and have concerns about a focus on regional service providers at the expense of specialist national providers and centres of excellence.
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31-Mar-08
Submission to the Far North District Council on the Kerikeri Structure Plan
This plan follows the approach of Auckland and Canterbury regional councils who are convinced that their populations should live in high density cities crowded behind the fencing wire curtain they call their "Metropolitan Urban Limit" or "Green Belt". These New Victorians want us to revert to nineteenth century lifestyles living in "new urbanist" villages, pedaling from home to work and corner store.
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