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Govt, council backing for new KiwiRail freight line through urban Auckland

Auckland Transport and KiwiRail are finalising a plan to build a 12km heavy rail line west from Southdown to Avondale, digging right through several neighbourhoods. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Government pulls a u-turn on controversial housing directive

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown wins a battle in his war of letters with central government

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Auckland Council bids to untangle transport from government

Auckland councillors have agreed to petition the Government to give them more control over transport plans.

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Labour’s ‘complex beast’ of a transport plan divides Auckland

The money, time and traffic orbiting Labour’s new harbour crossing plan have local and central politicians alike shaking their heads

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Seismic bill scrutiny puts council budget on shaky ground

Calls for more scrutiny over earthquake strengthening costings saw Mayor Wayne Brown push back unsuccessfully on an operational budget

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Port volumes falling as Auckland Council considers waterfront site's future

Lack of productivity was an issue in the past, but Ports of Auckland expects to continue to exceed its forecasts.

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Auckland flood recovery could cost $4 billion

The costs are mounting on the long list of jobs Auckland Council needs to do to rebuild, recover and future-proof following this year's severe weather events..

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Reshuffle ‘in the court of King Wayne’ draws ire

It was musical chairs for Auckland Council committees this week, with one swap-out proving especially controversial.

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Wayne Brown's quest to avoid another communication breakdown

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown wants to make doubly sure he isn’t again seen as inadequate in his response to emergency events like the January floods.

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Protecting Auckland may require unpopular changes

Auckland Council is looking at changes to the unitary plan to reduce the impact of future weather events

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Auckland Councillors livid at surprise Kāinga Ora directive

Councillors have hit back at a surprise directive by central Government for Kāinga Ora to look at building 66,000 homes along Auckland’s forthcoming light rail corridor.

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Auckland Council: who swallowed the most dead rats?

What was supposed to be a mere procedural step became a rehashing of still raw, difficult decisions made in council chambers earlier this month

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Auckland Transport boss: ‘You can’t run a business like this’

Auckland’s transport agency are crying out for more certainty in funding models as an expanding city and asset base ensure that costs are only on the way up.

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Beware future shocks, warn Auckland Council staff

Maurice Williamson also warned his fellow councillors there’s plenty coming down the pipe - but how much debt headroom does Auckland Council actually need?

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Another Ode for .. Wayne Brown

Bard Billot once more on the barbarian Brown.

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Airport for sale: councillors pass budget after two days of debate

A 7 percent stake in Auckland Airport is going up for sale after 14 councillors voted through the new yearly budget.

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No full airport sale but councillors 'going to have to swallow a dead rat or two’

After a day of debate and questions, Auckland’s councillors have put off their budget votes until today

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Raw Politics: Labour's free range ministers

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Whatever did Chris Hipkins do to deserve the absent-minded, busy, superior minister Michael Woods, and which of the electoral reforms deserve to be adopted

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Brown's budget ends in purgatory

Wayne Brown conceded ground on almost all his original planks for Auckland Council's budget, and ground out a kind of political draw that left no one particularly happy.

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Brown airport plan still in need of votes

It’s an historic day for Auckland Council as the vote looms on Wayne Brown’s ‘reset budget’.

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Roger, Ruth, Wayne and Tina

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown conjures up the ghosts of economic reformers past in demanding his council sell its biggest asset

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Councillors partial to partial airport sale

If Wayne Brown’s full selldown of airport shares doesn’t get off the ground, will Auckland’s councillors find a compromise?

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Mayor’s councillor call-outs 'a mark of his desperation'

Brown upped the ante on his blunt communication style when he called out four councillors for daring to vote against him on the upcoming decision on whether to sell the airport shares.

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Brown's obsessive nano-management is just what Auckland doesn't need

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown's proposals won't help the city in the short or long term. Worse, he shows no signs of the personal and political skills needed to work with councillors and citizens to develop better plans

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Brown calls for councillor loyalty – and media to stay away

Members of the press being turned away from the door distracted from the announcement of asset sales and inflation-pegged rates in Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s final budget proposal

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