A paper and presentation prepared for the Local Government New Zealand Conference, Rotorua, 29 July 2002. The purpose of the paper and presentation is to examine the topography of the territory in which local government in New Zealand will be situated after the Local Government Bill 2001 has...

A presentation to the Regional Councillors Forum, delivered on 4 September 1999. The address expounds the various problems besetting the Local Government Act 1974, with an emphasis on its bulk and complexity. It evaluates whether a power of general competence could be the solution to these problems