About 30 groups and
organisations with an interest in the Omarama and Mackenzie
Basins are being invited to a proposed two-day meeting in
Twizel next week to discuss the structure of a trust being
set up by Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean.
A Hampden debate over economic growth versus sustainability
has just got hotter, with a team of National Party MPs being
withdrawn by Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean.
Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean has told the Queenstown
Lakes District Council to hurry up and decide where Wanaka's
proposed multimillion-dollar sports complex will be built.
A move to try to change
New Zealand's Easter trading laws has again fallen over,
after Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean decided to postpone her most
recent attempt at a law change.
Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean has defended her Easter Trading Bill,
expressing surprise at claims by the National Distribution
Union about the negative effects on Oamaru.
Wanaka retailers are mulling the annual Easter question -
should they open their doors over the coming long weekend and
trade in defiance of New Zealand's shop-trading laws?
Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean has joined those asking Environment
Minister Nick Smith to call in the controversial Omarama-Ohau
dairy farm consent applications.
