Author: John Minto

The East has been left behind, out in the cold while hundreds of millions are being poured into the city centre and other wealthier areas of Christchurch by the government and city council.

The Minto for Mayor campaign welcomes today’s public appeal for trials of free public transport in New Zealand cities from Professor Sir Alan Mark from Otago University.

The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has written to Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters today urging that New Zealand condemn the Israeli Prime Minister’s planned annexation of vast tracts of the occupied West Bank of Palestine.

It was the ninth anniversary of the September 2010 earthquake last week, the first of the two big earthquakes to hit the city, but driving through some parts of East Christchurch you might think the earthquake was last week.

Under Minto for Mayor every child in Christchurch will have a warm, dry home BEFORE the rugby union gets a new stadium.

It’s a sad truth that in our daily political discourse the struggle of people on low incomes doesn’t rate much.

There has been some mischievous misinformation circulating about the Minto for Mayor policy of free public transport. To put this misinformation to rest we are releasing a full description of the policy.

Keep Our Assets Canterbury has endorsed me to stand for the Christchurch mayoralty in the coming local body election. I got 15% of the vote last time which was pleasing after being in the city for just 18 months. For this coming campaign we are focusing on the three big issues facing Christchurch:

There was something almost smug in the Prime Minister’s voice when she was asked if the government would intervene at Ihumatao. Oh no, she said – that’s an iwi dispute – nothing to do with the government – whew!