/news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/rss 九一星空无限 九一星空无限talk ZB's Spotlight on Wellington brings you everything you need to know before you cast your vote on October 17. Hosted by Georgina Campbell, this Vot Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:43:36 Z en /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-what-the-election-means-for-wellington/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-what-the-election-means-for-wellington/ In this Spotlight on Wellington special, Georgina Campbell and Katrina Bennett dissect some of the more interesting results from the Wellington electorates, and discuss what they mean for the likes of Let's Get Wellington Moving, housing - and even the Johnsonville Mall. Wellington has voted overwhelmingly in support of Labour - the whole lower North Island has turned red. Stand-outs include Otaki where Labour newcomer Terisa Ngobi ousted National's Tim Costley - Wairarapa where Labour's Kieran McAnulty was victorious - and of course, Hutt South, one of the closest battles in the country, with Labour's Ginny Andersen wresting it from National's Chris Bishop. Anderson and Bishop join them to discuss the results, alongside Ōhāriu’s MP Greg O’Connor. LISTEN ABOVE Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:01:40 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-key-issues-facing-hutt-south-and-remutaka/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-key-issues-facing-hutt-south-and-remutaka/ Focus on the key issues facing Hutt South and Remutaka this election: Hear from Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Helen Down and REINZ regional director Mark Coffey on what needs to be done to boost the economy, and address rising house prices and growing congestion in the Hutt Valley. Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:56:07 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-remutaka-electorate-greens-act-and-nz-first/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-remutaka-electorate-greens-act-and-nz-first/ Focus on the Remutaka electorate: Hear from Green Party candidate Chris Norton, ACT candidate Grae O'Sullivan and NZ First candidate Talani Meikle on how they plan to address rising house prices, improve water management and boost the economy in Upper Hutt and surrounding suburbs. Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:08:46 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-expert-panel-on-transport-issues/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-expert-panel-on-transport-issues/ The Road Transport Forum chief executive says Let's Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) should be scrapped and re-started to claw back some credibility. Nick Leggett made the comments in a Spotlight on Wellington Transport Election Special panel hosted by Jason Pine live on 九一星空无限talk ZB today. Leggett was joined by panellists Dr Caroline Shaw of Otago University's Department of Public Health, John Milford of Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and micro mobility expert Oliver Bruce. The $6.4 billion LGWM transport plan was a hot topic on the show with every panellist expressing frustration at the pace of its rollout after being announced by the Government last year. It's a three-way partnership between NZTA, Wellington City Council, and Greater Wellington Regional Council. Leggett said part of the project's hold-up was to do with the "dysfunction of the Local Government set-up". "[There's] too much focus on the rats and mice and not on the big stuff and the vision," he said. "What do we want? What are we trying to achieve here? And it's not about tomorrow or the next day, it's really 10, 20, 50, 100 years." He said people needed to see progress and criticised the project for being too Wellington City centric. "People are actually just really frustrated. I think they're going to have to completely can it to get some credibility and we need to start again." Leggett advocated for one transport planning entity for the region to deliver the project. He asked the other panellists: "What do you need to see in terms of progress to make Get Wellington Moving viable?" Shaw said she didn't know what would give her confidence in "this particular project". "One of the good things that they did do at the start was actually do a very intensive consultation about what the priorities of Wellingtonians are … the problem that they've then faced is actually delivering on them." She said public transport is the biggest thing Wellington should be doing to reduce carbon emissions, while also acknowledging this was expensive infrastructure that takes a while to build. Leggett was also concerned with the extent of which politicians politicise transport projects. "We get politicians of all colours and varieties who fiddle with and politicise these really important long-term issues. "We get obsessed about projects and we all lose sight, and we all lose the will to live frankly, and we don't get anything done." Bruce said he supported all of the projects in the package, but agreed with Leggett there needed to be some sort of centralised authority. "You've got NZTA, you've got the regional council, you've got the city council, and it's a bit of a cluster." He wanted to see bus priority and cycleways built more quickly. "Those two things have been stuck in a political process and it is the most frustrating, because they're the easiest things to go and do and everybody agrees, everyone's like 'go sort bus priority lanes' of course it makes the whole thing work better." Milford pointed out that LGWM has already gone through an exhaustive consultation process. "Now we've got an ineffective three-way process that's already had consultants brought in to see why it's not working. "We need to get one entity for delivering this. What the people want, they've spoken, we need to have a plan that actually plans all of it not little bits of it at a time, and we need to get on with it." Shaw said Wellington City Council was creating a rod for its own back with the way it has tried to build cycleways in the city, mainly the consultation process. "It's just a disaster". Asked how she would do it better, Shaw said: "We wouldn't be consulting on every 100 metres of road in this very intensive way … we'd be setting out a whole network of cycle lanes and we'd be consulting on that." Bruce tried to come to the defence of councils and said they were constrained by consultation requirements under the Local Government Act. But Leggett, who is also the former mayor of Porirua, said he was pretty familiar with the rules and that it could be done a lot better along the lines of what Shaw suggested. Milford said at the end of the day the good news was that after decades of underinvestment in Wellington's transport both major parties finally have plans on the table leading into the election. Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:56:41 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-remutaka-electorate/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-remutaka-electorate/ Focus on the Remutaka electorate: Hear from incumbent, Labour's Chris Hipkins, and National candidate Mark Crofskey on how they plan to address rising house prices and upgrade transport in Upper Hutt and surrounding suburbs. Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:09:43 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-hutt-south-electorate/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-hutt-south-electorate/ Focus on the Hutt South electorate: Hear from minor party candidates Richard McIntosh (Green Party), Roger Earp (New Conservative Party), Ben Wylie-van Eerd (TOP), Andy Parkins (ACT), Wilf Bearman-Reidel (Outdoors Party) and Paris Winiata (VisionNZ) on the anticipated close race in Lower Hutt, and what they see as the most important issues for voters. Mon, 05 Oct 2020 23:47:09 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-hutt-south-electorate-major-parties/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-hutt-south-electorate-major-parties/ Focus on the Hutt South electorate: Hear from sitting MP, National's Chris Bishop, and Labour candidate Ginny Andersen on the anticipated close race in Lower Hutt, and what they see as the most important issues for voters. LISTEN ABOVE Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:45:25 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-ohariu-and-mana-electorates/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-ohariu-and-mana-electorates/ Focus on the key issues facing the Ohariu and Mana electorates this election: Hear from former Wellington Mayor and Johnsonville local Justin Lester, former Porirua Mayor and Road Transport Forum boss Nick Leggett, and current Porirua Mayor Anita Baker on what needs to be done to address growing congestion on our roads, the housing shortage and child poverty. Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:47:06 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-mana-electorate-minor-parties/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-mana-electorate-minor-parties/ Focus on the Mana electorate: Hear from minor party candidates Jan Logie (Green Party), Helen Cartwright (Integrity Party) and Michael Walker (Progressive Party) on what they see as the most important issues facing the Mana electorate. LISTEN ABOVE Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:45:07 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-mana-electorate-major-parties/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-mana-electorate-major-parties/ Focus on the Mana electorate: Hear from Labour candidate Barbara Edmonds and National candidate Jo Hayes on what they see as the most important issues facing the Mana electorate. LISTEN ABOVE Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:45:21 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-ohariu-minor-candidates/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-ohariu-minor-candidates/ Focus on the Ohariu electorate: Hear from minor party candidates Jessica Hammond (TOP), Philip Lynch (New Conservative Party), John Ranta (Green Party) and Sean Fitzpatrick (ACT) on what they see as the most important issues facing Wellington's northern suburbs. Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:50:01 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-%C5%8Dh%C4%81riu-electorate/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-%C5%8Dh%C4%81riu-electorate/ Focus on the key issues facing the Ōhāriu electorate. Hear from incumbent, Labour's Greg O'Connor, National candidate Brett Hudson and New Zealand First candidate Tracey Martin on what they see as the most important issues facing Wellington's northern suburbs. LISTEN ABOVE Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:49:11 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-the-key-issues-facing-rongotai-and-wellington-central/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-the-key-issues-facing-rongotai-and-wellington-central/ Focus on the key issues facing Rongotai and Wellington Central this election: Hear from Wellington Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive John Milford, Real Estate agent Steve Farrell, Renters United's Zoe Woodfield and voxpops from the streets of Wellington, on what needs to be done to address rising housing costs and growing congestion in the capital. LISTEN ABOVE Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:53:28 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-wellington-central-electorate-minor-parties/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-wellington-central-electorate-minor-parties/ Focus on the Wellington Central electorate: Hear from minor party candidates Brooke Van Velden (ACT), Abe Grey (TOP), Liam Richfield (New Conservative Party) and Jesse Richardson (Independent) on what they see as the most important issues facing Wellington city. Wed, 23 Sep 2020 19:45:47 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-wellington-central-electorate-major-parties/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-wellington-central-electorate-major-parties/ Focus on the Wellington Central electorate: Hear from sitting MP, Labour's Grant Robertson, National candidate Nicola Willis and Green Party co-leader and candidate James Shaw with their views on the key issues of housing, transport and water in Wellington city. LISTEN ABOVE Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:46:01 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-rongotai-electorate-minor-parties/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-rongotai-electorate-minor-parties/ Focus on the Rongotai electorate: Hear from minor party candidates Troy Mihaka (Integrity Party), Bruce Welsh (New Conservative Party), Teall Crossen (Greens), Nicole McKee (ACT) and Taylor Arneil (NZ First) on what they see as the most important issues facing the Rongotai region. LISTEN ABOVE Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:45:45 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington/ 九一星空无限talk ZB's Vote 2020: Spotlight on Wellington brings you everything you need to know before you cast your vote on October 17 - candidate profiles, electorate analysis, the big issues, the game-changers. Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:20:33 Z /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-rongotai-electorate-major-parties/ /news/vote-2020/spotlight-on-wellington/spotlight-on-wellington-focus-on-the-rongotai-electorate-major-parties/ Hear from sitting MP Labour's Paul Eagle, National candidate David Patterson and TOP party leader and candidate Geoff Simmons with their views on the key issues of transport and housing in the Rongotai area. LISTEN ABOVE Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:45:41 Z