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Ratepayers' Alliance Slams Auckland Council's $5 Million Catering Bill
Monday, 30 March 2026, 11:48 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
Every dollar spent on catering is a dollar not spent on fixing roads, improving services, or easing the pressure on households. More >>
Brown Needs To Check His Own Record On Rates
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 7:49 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is challenging Mayor Wayne Brown’s misleading claim that a rates cap would only save Auckland households the equivalent of a can of baked beans a month. Josh Van Veen, spokesman for the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance, ... More >>
Ratepayers Demand Full Breakdown Of Biggest Rates Rise In History
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 9:51 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesman Josh Van Veen said: "The Long-term Plan budgeted an extra $294 million in rates revenue next year. Mayor Brown has always claimed that the increase was to cover the cost of the CRL.” More >>
Wayne Brown Has Betrayed Ratepayers
Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 12:39 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Ratepayers’ Alliance is also calling on Brown to explain how much of the proposed rise is due to the City Rail Link (CRL). More >>
Mayor Brown Misleads Aucklanders On Ratepayer Pledge
Friday, 3 October 2025, 3:07 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
“Wayne Brown clearly hasn’t even read the pledge before mouthing off. He’s claiming it would stop independent members on the Council’s Audit and Risk Committee — but that’s just not true. He’s resorting to making things up and personal ... More >>
REVEALED: $237,561 On Fairy Lights Not A Priority For Aucklanders
Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 2:52 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
“Auckland Council has claimed the average rates bill is $4,069 – on that assumption, they’ve effectively spent 60 households’ worth of rates on this one thing. And to ask us for more money with a straight face is just insulting.” More >>
Auckland Council Threatens Further $30 Million Rates Increase Events Fund
Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 10:14 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesman Sam Warren said: “Councillors have things completely backwards. They’ve just added an extra $300 million on top of last year’s revenue; cut some spending before demanding even more money.” More >>
Choosing Between Rates Or Groceries: Rural Ratepayers Hit Hard By Auckland Rate Increases
Wednesday, 20 August 2025, 4:35 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
Rural property owners across the board have raised the issue of slipping through the cracks, paying for council services they don’t necessarily benefit from, Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesman, Sam Warren, said. More >>
Auckland’s Problems Won’t Be Solved With Another Tax
Wednesday, 13 August 2025, 1:49 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
“The last thing Auckland needs is another tax, and adding more problems isn’t going to fix the ones we already have” said Auckland ratepayers’ Alliance spokesman, Sam Warren. More >>
BREAKING: Colossal Cock-Up On Auckland Rates Bills, Urgent Inquiry Needed
Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 2:26 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
“People are going without to be able to afford their rates bill, and now we’re discovering the bills were wrong.” “We’re calling for an urgent inquiry into this blunder, and an immediate halt to all rates bills going out until we can have ... More >>
Revealed: Auckland Transport Paid Social Media Influencers More Than $147,000 In 12 Months
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 1:12 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
While Auckland Transport will not confirm how much each influencer was paid, we can average the total between the 10 of them. That’s nearly $15,000 per influencer, paid for by Auckland ratepayers. More >>
Auckland Transport Hits Pause On $380,000 'Gold-Plated' Raised Crossing Project
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 9:52 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
AT needs to start listening more. People are fed up with these expensive projects when more affordable alternatives can be found. The disconnect is insane, to think that this is an appropriate use of ratepayer money, or that the 30-day road closure ... More >>
More Than $3 Million Spent Promoting Auckland Council’s $36 Million Food Scrap Bins
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 1:59 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
As pressure grows on Council for its virtue-signalling, we’ve called for the scrap bin programme to be scrapped—or at the very least, an opt-out option for those two thirds of Aucklanders not using the bins but are still forced to pay for them. More >>
Campaign Launch: Scrap Auckland's $36 Million Scrap Bin Programme
Monday, 19 May 2025, 12:30 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
“We’re encouraging all Aucklanders to use our email tool to send Mayor Wayne Brown a clear message, asking for a better, greener use of hard-earned ratepayer money.” More >>
'No!' To Bed Tax: Aucklanders Want Focus, Not Bureaucracy
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 12:59 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
Mayor Brown’s focus on growth and investment in this update is entirely correct given the massive challenges the city faces—but a new tax is simply not the answer Aucklanders are looking for. More >>
Mayor Wayne Brown Needs To Front Up Over Newsroom Allegations
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 10:24 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
Does Auckland Council's conflict of interest policies mean anything at all, or are they just a fig leaf? If the Council can't deal with this in a robust and transparent manner, it's appropriate for the Auditor-General to step in. More >>
REVEALED: Auckland Council Splashes Out $50,000 On Waterskiing Championships, Leaves Ratepayers High And Dry
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 10:32 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The same request revealed $12,000 was spent by organisers for acquiring a resource consent from Auckland Council to hold the event. More >>
Auckland Ratepayers Will Sink A Further $41.6 Million Into MOTAT By 2027
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:27 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
“Councillor Mike Lee was entirely correct to confront the reality that change is desperately needed. Ratepayers covering a $74 subsidy per visitor shows the business case is non-existant, and it cannot continue.” More >>
REVEALED: Auckland Council’s $560,000 ‘Rainbow Machine’
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 11:36 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The same request can reveal that since the Rainbow Machine’s 2018 commissioning, Auckland Council has spent $104,405 cleaning, moving and erecting the installation in various locations. Council has spent a further $6,898 on maintenance for the machine, ... More >>
Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance Slams Auckland Councillors For Eden Park 'Kick Back' Sleaze — Demands Repayment
Monday, 24 March 2025, 1:57 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
"The councillors were given tickets because they are councillors, at the very same time they're considering the future of the stadium. It's beyond belief that anyone is defending this." More >>
