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Fifteen free tickets left for An Evening with the BBC's Jason Gibbins - Thursday March 12.
Main Image: Peter Newport (Crux) and Jason Gibbins (BBC) at Parliament in Wellington - Wednesday March 11, 2026 for a Government meeting to discuss local news for local audiences.
Don’t miss the chance to discuss the future of local news a...
QLDC silent on Cougar Security contracts and total CCTV costs
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QLDC claims that Queenstown’s 424 CCTV cameras cost them under $1,000 each - but that figure appears to exclude installation, power, networking, recording and consents. The QLDC’s claimed total camera cost is just under $400,000.
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Ombudsman battles to reveal QLDC's Cougar Security contracts - but some "non-existent" costs discovered
Questions asked by Crux under official information legislation last year about Cougar Security Ltd’s QLDC contracts remain largely unanswered, in spite of intervention by the Office of the Chief Ombudsman.
Cougar has secured extensive coun...
How councils can win genuine community trust
New Zealand councils are still mainly on a mission to control their own communications channels - to literally own the narrative.
But can local public servants, and elected councillors, ever win hearts and minds by insisting on telling jus...
Statement on Iran from PM Luxon.
The following statement has been issued by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon following the attack on Iran by the US and Israel. Full updates on that situation from the BBC here.
New Zealand has consistently condemned Iran’s nuclear programm...
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