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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: The alternative to ditching regional councils
Description: You know how at work you can get people leaving and, instead of hiring new people, they just dish out the work to other people? Then it gets to the point where the other people look up and realise they’re overworked, overloaded, and burnt out. I wonder if that’s how mayors around the country are feeling about the prospect of them not only running their own councils but taking over their local regional council, as well. That’s what the Government is proposing, with the ultimate aim of pretty much getting rid of r...