Better Waipa Team Advert
September 23, 2025
Orwell’s 1984: Reclaiming Our Democracy
September 22, 2025
It was a full house when Better Waipā candidates, supporters and friends gathered for our successful Fundraising Movie Night on Sept 11th at the historic Regent Theatre in Te Awamutu. We watched George Orwell’s dystopian 1984 - a classic adaptation, close to the original ...
The Mayoral Forum - Poem
August 30, 2025
One arrives in an Annah Stretton jacket,cut fine for a woman two decades her senior —shoulders padded with borrowed authority,stitched in satin certaintythat the crowd will mistake tailoring for substance. Another smiles wide:the farmer’s daughter who “made it,”...
Don't Burn Waipa
August 30, 2025
Toxic Dangers of ‘Fast-Track’ Building Consents in NZIndependent article...
Reflections on a ‘Meet the Candidates’ event in Pirongia
August 19, 2025
About twenty-five of us ventured out on a dark and rainy Winter’s evening to WDCs ‘Meet the Candidates’ at the Pirongia Community Hall Chapel on 18th August. What was on our minds?…potholed roads are not fit for purpose; council-owned historic buildings are not prope...
The road to lack of Transparency...
July 28, 2025
WDC Disables Comments on its Facebook Page
This post describes evidence of censorship, that was censored. Here’s an example of interactions I’ve had with our local newspaper editors - the recently closed-down Te Awamutu Courier (run by New Zealand Media & Entertainment Ltd) (NZME) and Te Awamut...
Taking Back Our Council from Unelected Bureaucrats For too long, we’ve been fed the illusion that our votes for council actually determine how our district is run. The uncomfortable truth is that real power doesn’t sit with the people we elect—it’s held by unelected ...
Bribery and corruption was in the news recently when Mark Lester and Sean Bryan were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment; guilty of illegally ‘steering’ more than AU$20 million in inflated contracts to Bryan’s company, through Spark. The judge ...
Why is Council ‘Nudging’ us into compliance?
July 6, 2025
Do we know how and when our personal decisions are being manipulated? This doesn’t just happen at supermarkets or in a car dealership; our own Waipa District Council (WDC) Comms team exists for this purpose. Because propaganda isn’t taught in schools, it’s often dismis...
Better Waipa Initiative Discussion Document
June 26, 2025
Fraud & Corruption Policy
DRAFT - Better Waipa Initiative Discussion Document...
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