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Essential Reading for All Involved in the Creative Sector

The Auckland Spatial Plan involves the development of a strategy by Auckland Council, with reference to central government, that will affect Auckland over the next 30 years. “A spatial plan shows, for a given area, adesired end state of complementary land use, infrastructure and public services that decision makers believe will most effectively and efficiently [...]

Pathways to Arts & Cultural Employment (Pace) review

Want to know something the Government doesn’t want you to know?

MEET THE CANDIDATES: AUCKLAND CITY LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS 2010

One unitary council, one mayor, 20 councillors representing 13 wards, 149 local board members representing 21 local board areas. If we value and want community to remain strong and present in the new Supercity we need to exercise our right to vote on the basis of informed decisions. MEET THE CANDIDATES STANDING AS COUNCILLORS FOR [...]

SUPERCITY ELECTIONS

Auckland’s local government elections in 2010 signal the big pond we’re about to be thrown into. Supercity causes us concern because we fear this smallness, powerlessness, disintegration of community identity, and of what we perceive community to be, which includes nurturing the individual and meeting their need for a sense of belonging. However, as we’ve [...]

Appointments to Creative New Zealand Arts Council

Academic and historian Professor John Davidson has been appointed to the board of the Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand, and Alastair Carruthers has been re-appointed as chair of the council, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Christopher Finlayson announced today. The Arts Council is responsible for overall policy development for Creative New Zealand, [...]

Super city! Make sure you are registered to vote

Make sure you can vote in upcoming Auckland elections Aucklanders are being urged to take the first step to getting ready for the Auckland Council and district health board elections by ensuring they are correctly enrolled to vote. Almost 100,000 Aucklanders are not enrolled to vote in the upcoming local Auckland Council elections – making [...]

Questions at the ready…

As more Super City mayoral candidates emerge, Auckland art practitioners and art lovers need to be considering what questions they want answered during the campaign race to election. There will be a number of Mayoral Candidate Forums held over the next four months and it is imperative that probing questions on arts funding, policies and [...]

Private Member’s Bill

Phil Twyford’s Private Member’s Bill “Local Government (Protection of Auckland Assets) Amendment Bill” offers an anchor of security, especially for arts, social service, environmental and sports organisations serving their communities.

CPC Submission

Below is the submission that the CPC is presenting for the Local Government (Auckland Reorganisation) Bill. Please read and use as reference.

Making a Submission for the Auckland Bill

Information and resources that will help you to craft a submission.

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