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Under the National-led government's 2024 law change the 45 local councils, which had established Māori wards following the 2021 law change abolishing binding referendums on Māori wards, were required to decide whether to drop their Māori wards or hold a binding poll on them at the 2025 New Zealand local elections by 6 September 2024. If ...
The referendums were spurred by the ruling National-led coalition government's passing of the Local Government (Electoral Legislation and Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Act 2024, reinstating the requirement that councils must hold referendums before establishing Māori wards that the previous Labour government had removed ...
The word city took on two meanings in New Zealand after the local government reforms of 1989. Before the reforms, a borough that had a population of 20,000 or more could be proclaimed a city. [ 1 ] The boundaries of councils tended to follow the edge of the built-up area, so there was little difference between the urban area and the local ...
Christchurch was the first city in New Zealand to develop an underground sewerage network. [334] In the early 1870s, Christchurch had a population of around 12,000 people. However, there was a high death rate from diseases such as typhoid, with 152 people dying in an epidemic from 1875 to 1876. [335]
The 2025 New Zealand local elections (Māori: Nga Pōtitanga ā-Rohe 2025) will be held on 11 October 2025. [1] Local government in New Zealand has triennial elections to elect city and district mayors and councillors, regional councillors, and members of local boards. Most city and district councils will also hold a local referendum on Māori ...
The boundaries of councils tended to follow the edge of the built-up area, so little distinction was made between the urban area and the local government area. New Zealand's local government structural arrangements were significantly reformed by the Local Government Commission in 1989 when approximately 700 councils and special purpose bodies ...
The model of local government introduced after New Zealand became a British colony in 1840 had nothing in common with the tribal system practised by Māori. [2] The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, a British Act of Parliament, established six provinces in New Zealand—Auckland, New Plymouth (later to be renamed Taranaki), Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago—based on the six original ...
They argued that the Government's policy of repealing the 2021 legislation breached the New Zealand Crown's Treaty of Waitangi obligations, would lead to the reduction in dedicated Māori representation at the local government level, expose Māori communities to racism and damage Māori-Crown relations. The Tribunal found that the Crown had ...