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- 18 entries highlight strength of community engagement across the motu
- 2024 Taituarā Excellence Awards and Gala Dinner Highlights
- A guide to Standing Orders
- A Pacific lens on deliberative and participatory democracy
- Adding natural hazard information to LIM reports
- Advocating for play, active recreation, and sport
- AI Entries in Datascape Award for Excellence in Digital Local Government
- Analysis of Local Water Done Well annoucement
- Anne Blakeway Reflects on Her Exchange to Sydney and the Hunter Valley
- Anne Bradbury Shares Insights from Her Exchange in Burke Shire, Queensland
- Another record for 2026 Excellence Awards entries
- Ballot bins and election hubs
- Building practical asset management capability on Mangaia
- Building waste management capability in the Pacific
- Cat regulation for the benefit of kiwis and Kiwis
- Charlotte Knight shares insights from her exchange in the USA
- Climate Change update: the legacy we will leave to our tamariki and mokopuna
- Coaching for local government leaders
- Collaboration in action: a new model for building consent processing
- Council chief executives come together to navigate reform
- Councils transform communities in Placemaking Award entries
- Datacom joins Taituarā as exclusive technology partner
- Deal or No Deal - Localism and Regional Deals
- Diverse range of partners feature in this year’s Award for Collaboration
- Economic regulation for water services begins with an information disclosure regime
- Eight entries showcase environmental leadership across Aotearoa
- Eight to Contest 2024 Great Consultation Document Competition Final
- Embracing the Future: Insights from the ICMA Conference 2024 in Pittsburgh
- Everything is bigger in Texas
- Final freedom camping regulations released
- First National Adaptation Plan released
- Five enter inaugural award for Cost-Effective Impact
- From AI ambition to execution: where are our councils sitting?
- Fundamental shift coming for Resource Management with Bills introduced
- Gaining understanding in Samoa to find the right solution
- Going for growth – delivering outcomes for people and places
- Government releases Emissions Reduction Plan
- Growing insights, connections, and friendship across the Tasman
- Growing Together: Community-Led Development Lessons from Canada
- Guidance on property sales, acquisitions, and leases
- Harnessing renewable energy for local councils: a path to sustainability
- Highlights from thrive | kia tōnui ai, the 2023 Taituarā Conference
- Hutt City Council Sets a New Standard in the 2024 CD Competition
- ICMA 2025: Bringing back global perspectives to Aotearoa
- Infrastructure planning in a dynamic environment
- Introducing our Pou Ārahi: Alecia “Leish” Thompson
- Investment required in staff and development in local government
- Justin Herbert takes the lead in PacificTA programme
- Leadership, learning, and connection at ICMA 2025
- LIM reform Select Committee Report released
- LIMS legislation passes third reading
- Local elections changes move through Parliament
- Local Play Workforce Project – Councils: Cohort Two underway
- Major IPPC report on climate change impacts and adaptation released
- Making AI work in the workplace
- Managing for the Big Issues
- Members’ Choice Award finalists announced for 2026 Excellence Awards
- Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ release their latest environmental report
- Morrison Low Advisory signs on as Taituarā supporting partner
- Navigating Resource Management Reform
- Navigating Treaty settlement obligations with Te Haeata
- New Hononga Indigenous Overseas Manager Exchange opportunity
- New South Wales Overseas Manager Exchange Conference report
- Nine enter Te Tohu Waka Hourua – the Award for Council/Māori Partnerships
- NZ's Greenhouse Gas Emissions reduce – but room for some sectors to do more
- Out with the old, in with the new: public transport legislation
- Pacific Wellbeing Strategy revealed
- Partnerships with Māori driving change in award entries
- Phil Wilson made a Taituarā Life Member
- Predator Free Wellington named as 2025 Supreme Award winner
- Preparations for the Resource Management Act replacement legislation
- Productivity Commission releases report on disadvantage
- Progressing Te Ao Māori at Taituarā
- Protecting our most fertile agricultural land
- Public libraries a hidden gem, new report finds
- Putting integrity at the core of how public organisations operate
- Recent changes to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
- Recognizing our distinguished members in 2025
- Record entries in GHD Award Excellence in Environmental Leadership
- Record entries into the LGFA Taituarā Local Government Excellence Awards®
- Reforming the Resource Management Act
- Reporting back on our sister councils in New South Wales
- Residential building supplies market study
- Resource Management Reform - Blueprint released
- Resource management reform at the Waitangi Tribunal
- Resource management reform: getting the foundations right
- Rex Capil reports back on local government in British Columbia
- Select Committee reports back on Regulation of Public Transport Amendment Bill
- Senior Leaders programme kicks off for 2026
- Sixteen enter FrankGroup Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
- Smart thinking drives cost effectiveness entries
- Starting pistol sounds on Local Water Done Well
- Strategic treasury management in uncertain times
- Strengthening Building Compliance in Vanuatu
- Stronger together: collaboration category reaches new high
- Supporting our local government colleagues in the Pacific Islands
- Taituarā called on Water Services Entities Amendment Bill
- Taituarā member profile: Corin Haines
- Taituarā member profile: Sandy Graham
- Taituarā members recognised for long service
- Taituarā members: Darren Edwards
- Taituarā submission highlights risks and recommendations in planning reforms
- Taituarā submission on proposed development levies system
- Taituarā submission on proposed rates target model
- Taituarā submission on the Hospitality Sector Review
- Taituarā submission on the Inquiry into the 2025 Local Elections
- Taituarā welcomes Beca as new Principal Partner
- Taituarā welcomes new Chief Executive
- Taituarā welcomes the final Future for Local Government report
- Taituarā re-registers with modern constitution
- Taituarā submission on local government standing orders
- Taituarā submission on the Land Transport (Revenue) Amendment Bill
- Te Hui Taituarā 2025 – unleashes impact in Ōtautahi Christchurch
- Te Ranga Ahurangi: Name adopted for Te Ao Māori Committee
- Tech transforming local government: Digital Award entries revealed
- Thank you David for your huge contribution to our work
- The building system is not fundamentally broken and new BRANZ levy arrangements
- The current dynamics of council-controlled organisations (CCOs)
- The power of proximity: Can clusters drive regional economic development?
- Tonga’s Tapuhia Landfill Transformation
- Under pressure – teams deliver at the Taituarā Management Challenge
- Understanding the ‘Mauke way’
- Update from the CE
- Update on alcohol licensing reforms
- Updating protections for indigenous biodiversity
- Varied bunch in Beca Award for Placemaking
- We are now known as Taituarā
- We’re all Connected now - ‘Connect’ 2024 Taituarā Conference success
- Wellbeing and disaster management in focus
- Why connected architecture determines what councils can do next
- Window of time to tackle rising sea levels halved
- Winners of the NZ leg of the Australasian Management Challenge announced
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- Making it Easier to Build Granny Flats: options paper consultation
- Managing for the Big Issues - Briefing for Hon. Simon Watts
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- Regarding the Building and Construction (Small Stand-alone Dwellings) Amendment Bill
- Regarding the Commerce Commission Draft Determination Information Disclosure for Water Services
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- Removing impendiments to building product substitution and variations
- Resource Management (Consenting and other System Changes) Amendment Bill
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