Value of Port on Auckland Councils balance sheet - $1.2 billion:

Thursday, 31st August, 2017

The Port: Handles 31% of NZ’s container trade by value – the highest of any NZ sea or airport. Around 70% of goods that pass through the Port go to-or-from businesses located within 35km of the Port – giving time-cost efficiencies and competitive advantages

Penlink – Auckland’s highest ranked transport project and one of the least costly - “So let’s give it the priority for action it deserves!”

Thursday, 31st August, 2017

Keep up your messages to political candidates to get Penlink built and open within five years. Having been brought forward into the current decade (2018/19 – 2027/28) in the updated Government – Auckland Council aligned transport programme (ATAP), there is now nothing holding it back (except political indecision) from an immediate start.

Auckland Council’s Easter Sunday trading vote – “A nanny state decision that doesn’t recognise Auckland’s diversity ....”

Friday, 25th August, 2017

Michael Barnett head of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce said that the issue of Easter Sunday trading should be about freedom of enterprise - it’s about those who are prepared to go into business with all its risks and those who choose when they will purchase products and services. If people vote with their feet at Easter and stay away then their point is made.

Michael Barnett: Housing has become a terrible Game of Thrones (NZ Herald 25 August 2017)

Friday, 25th August, 2017

Michael discusses the current housing situation which he says is becoming like a dangerous Game of Thrones.  Cities need people and people need safe, affordable, healthy homes where they can live, work and play to build sustainable futures… read more.
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