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Simeon Brown: Local Government Minister on the Maori wards referendum, Local Government's response

Published: July 30, 2024, 7:58 p.m.

The Local Government Minister's defending controversial changes to the rules around councils' M\u0101ori wards.\xa0

The third reading of the bill has passed, which forces councils to have a binding referendum on M\u0101ori wards at next year's elections. \xa0

Local Government New Zealand is against the changes, calling it an overreach.\xa0

But Simeon Brown told Mike Hosking he disagrees, and it's about letting local communities have their say.\xa0

He says Local Government NZ has gone woke and is simply trying to push the last government's left-wing policies\xa0

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