City Vision candidates sign up to Living Wage pledge

City Vision candidates sign up to Living Wage pledge

At the “Do Women Matter?” forum last night, City Vision candidates signed up to the Living Wage pledge. We confirmed that City Vision cares about our city and all its residents and is striving for community well-being through decent wages.  We...
City Vision’s latest campaign update

City Vision’s latest campaign update

City Vision is sending out a campaign update every week until election day on 12 October. In this week’s update we cover the highs and lows of the Unitary plan deliberations that took place over 3 days last week We also provide a round up of the issues from the...
Our View on Rates

Our View on Rates

The new Auckland ‘supercity’ promised by the National and ACT parties has turned out to be less than what was promised to our many local neighbourhoods.  Communities have been hit hard by amalgamation as all community facilities have been up for review and ‘fitted in’...
Hiding behind brands? No, we flaunt our allegiences!

Hiding behind brands? No, we flaunt our allegiences!

Recently, columnist Brian Rudman wrote that candidates at local level should “embrace the labels we’re all familiar with”, while conservative Colin Craig called City Vision a “pseudonym.” But City Vision has been proudly been flaunting its...
Nominations are in and confirmed

Nominations are in and confirmed

Nominations for the local government elections closed yesterday with all of City Vision’s candidates successfully registered. City Vision has nominated 34 candidates covering the Albert-Eden- Roskill Ward (Cr Cathy Casey and Peter Hayes), Waitemata & Gulf Ward (Cr...
Nothing trivial or second rate about local boards

Nothing trivial or second rate about local boards

Last week the Conservative party announced their candidates for 22 positions on 15 of the 21 Local Board (NZ Herald story). Party Leader Colin Craig is quoted as saying that the party ” was keeping its best people aside for the party list at the general...
The 2013 local election campaign begins

The 2013 local election campaign begins

Teams of City Vision candidates and volunteer supporters were out in force today to erect the election signage which tells Aucklanders that the election campaign is now on. In Waitemata and Albert-Eden-Roskill both Council and Local Board election hoardings were...