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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 2h

Still time to get your ballots in for the Auckland Local Elections! Although you need to drop them off at drop boxes now!

And if you want positive policies and action, vote City Vision!

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 16h

I voted, my local supermarket had a collection point

A person drops a yellow voting envelope into a red ballot box beneath a bright yellow sign that reads “Ngā pōtitanga ā-rohe Local body elections VOTE HERE,” indicating participation in Wellington City Council elections. The ballot box has a blue sticker that partially reads “CLOSES OCT.”

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City Vision @cityvision.bsky.social · 3h

Auckland voters face a stark choice between positive, policy-forward vision for a thriving, inclusive & liveable city, and a fear-mongering campaign from the Nat Party-aligned C&R dictated by the govt’s "back to basics" agenda #NZpol
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Media release: Auckland elections offer a stark choice: positive policy or a failure to plan — City Vision

As the Auckland Council elections enter the final few days, voters face a choice between City Vision’s positive, policy-forward vision for a thriving, inclusive and liveable Auckland, and a fear-monge...

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Bike Auckland @bikeauckland.bsky.social · 17h

🚲🗳️ Just 3 days left to return your ballot!

Take it on your next bike ride and remind a friend to do the same. Your ride, your city, your say — so make sure your vote gets counted. ✅

Let’s roll to the polls before midday this Saturday, Oct 11!

#BikeYourBallot #VoteLocal #BikeAKL #BetterByBike

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 1d

Get your local election votes in by noon on Saturday! Why? To ensure a great future for your city, of course. And also, to help make politics civil again. We owe it to each other to lift the standard of discourse, keep it evidence-based, and avoid falling for conspiracy and abuse. Here’s the thing🧵

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Pippa Coom @pippacoom.bsky.social · 1d

Candidates in local govt elections face very little scrutiny.
I'm grateful to @misswhanau.bsky.social for calling out the abuse and raising awareness.
This 🧵 on why it matters (incl extra red flags for Nat party aligned candidates courting cookers)

Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 1d

Get your local election votes in by noon on Saturday! Why? To ensure a great future for your city, of course. And also, to help make politics civil again. We owe it to each other to lift the standard of discourse, keep it evidence-based, and avoid falling for conspiracy and abuse. Here’s the thing🧵

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City Vision @cityvision.bsky.social · 1d

Why are National party aligned C&R cozying up to conspiracy theorists and enabling harassment?
This is an epic thread by @connorsharp.bsky.social on the red flags and toxic behaviour we have encountered this local government election #nzpol

Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 1d

Get your local election votes in by noon on Saturday! Why? To ensure a great future for your city, of course. And also, to help make politics civil again. We owe it to each other to lift the standard of discourse, keep it evidence-based, and avoid falling for conspiracy and abuse. Here’s the thing🧵

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 2d

Here with great Auckland Mayor Sir Dove-Meyer ‘Robbie’ Robinson, in office 1968-80, famous for trying to build a Rapid Transit systems ‘Robbie’s Rail’. So overdue, but also now within reach. My top priority, and what really started my involvement in AKl policy:

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 2d

VOTE!

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Sam[uel] Smith @sgowsmith1988.bsky.social · 5d

One council candidate’s plan for this empty centre in downtown Auckland
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A plan has emerged for this empty centre in downtown Auckland

An Auckland Council candidate has backed a plan to move the Auckland Central Library to the Sky World centre.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 3d

'So many of your daily problems are caused by council. They get away with it because everyone thinks they’re boring and irrelevant.'

Vote!

@haydendonnell.bsky.social

City is made of council

Please vote. I do not know how else to say this.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 9d

Big @cityvision.bsky.social doorknocking day of action this weekend!

Come join us to get out the vote to get great progressives elected to our local boards and council seats!

cityvision.org.nz/events/dkwoa

Doorknocking Weekend of Action — City Vision

This is the big one. A mammoth weekend of door knocking and phone banking to GET OUT THE VOTE! If you haven’t been involved in the campaign yet, now’s your chance. We’ll be running four sessions acros...

cityvision.org.nz

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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 6d

If an incumbent councillor running in 2025 claims they support Māori wards please check receipts - there was a councillor vote on Māori wards in 2023. 11 voted against, & most are seeking your vote again - Fletcher, Lee, K Turner, Williamson, Baker, Newman, Walker, Watson: all said no.

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 6d

Great to see AKL Council on the rational side of this. Private helipads in residential areas is absurd. But of course it never should have got to this. Long-standing councillors have been careless on this issue for decades.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Auckland Council sides with community groups against Ali Williams and Anna Mowbray helipad

Although Auckland Council is the official defendant in the helipad case, it’s standing shoulder to shoulder with Quiet Sky to stop Ali Williams’ flights.

www.stuff.co.nz

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City Vision @cityvision.bsky.social · 6d

No voting papers? No problem!
In Auckland there are events over the next week for in person voting on the spot.
Check out the map of locations and times here
voteauckland.co.nz/en/informati...

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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 9d

The local C&R team in Roskill have blocked the council funded Xmas event from having Santa because it will "disrupt Carol" (sic). Bit grinchy if you ask me; lots of folks in our community can't afford the fancy mall Santa pics and this was a free chance for their kids. Sad.

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 8d

Ten days to drop your votes back to a library or a Woolworths! (7 days for a post box). Nice chatting to Birkenhead residents getting on the ferry on this beautiful morning.

Look I know voting isn’t always the sexiest thing to, but it’s super important.

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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 11d

Last local govt elections the 6th seat on the Puketāpapa local board was almost a 3 way tie. In the end there were 8 votes in it iirc.

In 2024 Auckland Council voted 11 to 10 NOT to have booth voting this time (which increases turnout). Cr Fletcher’s vote was the difference.

Every vote counts.

Quote from Simon Wilson’s Love This City column: “I have always supported booth voting. When I was an MP, I advocated fiercely for it.” Christine Fletcher, standing for re-election for C&R in the Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward, at a meeting in Balmoral. As reported recently, Fletcher voted in council against booth voting in June 2024. The result was 11-10 against. I asked her about this, and she told me, “I can’t remember,” then added that the wording of the motion may have been problematic. She called me later and confirmed she had voted against.

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City Vision @cityvision.bsky.social · 11d

Vote @patrickreynolds.bsky.social for a people-centred and vibrant Auckland City Centre.
Mike Lee wants more cars, more pollution, and more noise - against the wishes of the 40k residents who live there

Morningside Jem @jgreenbrookheld.bsky.social · 11d

From Mike Lee's newspaper. Glory days when no one lived in the City Centre.

Also is he saying that Auckland Council is responsible for the decline in record stores?

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 12d

City Centres everywhere, shape your city streets wisely, for people, and vibrancy:

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 12d

Its Saturday! Only 2 weeks left before the last day of Auckland Local Election voting.

Make sure to vote early so you don't forget! And vote City Vision if you're in the central isthmus for a progressive, fun, future!

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City Vision @cityvision.bsky.social · 12d

The lowlights: peak absurdity of the housing debate led by Fletcher, Lee and Williamson.
The highlights: @juliefairey.bsky.social @hendowest.bsky.social and @richardhills.bsky.social

Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social · 13d

More housing was the winner on the day: our wrap-up of this week's decision by Auckland Council to move ahead with the new Plan Change. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/09/25/p...

Plan Change debate: more housing was the winner on the day - Greater Auckland

Housing has been much in the headlines recently, with a few Auckland Councillors fighting tooth and nail to prevent more of it in their own neighbourhoods and instead push it out to other parts of the...

www.greaterauckland.org.nz

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 13d

A viable cycling network is a vital safety-net for people and the economy. Is the cheapest transport network to install and maintain. A measure of a city’s competence and civility.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/pinchpo...

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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 13d

Make it easier to vote, not harder!
Give us our democracy sausage!

#nzpol
#PaulGoldsmithHatesDemocracy

Electoral Amendment Bill: Submitters want fewer restrictions, more sausages

The government's Electoral Amendment Bill has faced a deluge of criticism as submissions were heard at Parliament on Thursday.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 14d

Very pleased constructive councillors voted to proceed with PC120 today. As the originator of the two titles below, I am not callous about the value of our built heritage, but also know that cities are engines of change, need to be adding new layers every age. This will enable that in balanced way

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