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Keep Our Assets Request To Speak

Monday, 26 November 2018, 7:34 pm | Keep Our Assets

Keep Our Assets Request To Speak At This Week's Canterbury Earthquakes Symposium Refused Keep Our Assets Canterbury (KOA) is disappointed - but not surprised - that our request to speak at the November 29-30 Canterbury Earthquakes Symposium has been ... More >>

The Fight to Save City Care is Not Over Yet

Sunday, 11 December 2016, 7:55 pm | Keep Our Assets

The Christchurch City Council finally saw sense and abandoned its plan to sell City Care, earlier this year. More >>

CHCH To Hold Secret Vote on Wednesday

Sunday, 30 October 2016, 8:20 pm | Keep Our Assets

CHCH To Hold Secret Vote on Wednesday Whether to Restore Enable & City Care to Strategic Assets List Keep Our Assets Canterbury (KOA) has it in writing from Christchurch’s Mayor, Lianne Dalziel, that the agenda for the City Council meeting ... More >>

Renegotiation Should Wait Until After Local Body Election

Monday, 4 July 2016, 2:37 pm | Keep Our Assets

Keep Our Assets Canterbury has consistently called for the Christchurch City Council/Government Cost Share Agreement (entered into by the 2010-13 Council headed by Mayor Bob Parker) to be renegotiated. More >>

Who’s Being Disrespectful, Lianne?

Thursday, 26 May 2016, 2:58 pm | Keep Our Assets

Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel has complained about Keep Our Assets Canterbury (KOA) being “disrespectful” because, for the first hour of today’s City Council meeting, we silently held up a banner and placards naming and shaming the eight Councillors ... More >>

Christchurch Council Needs to Wake up & Smell the Liniment

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 3:51 pm | Keep Our Assets

If You Build It, They Won’t Come The headless chooks of the Christchurch City Council (specifically the eight Councillors, including the Mayor) have allowed themselves to be stampeded by debt hysteria and an ideologically-driven Government into a panic ... More >>

Democracy Needs To Be Restored ASAP to ECan

Wednesday, 25 November 2015, 2:09 pm | Keep Our Assets

Murray Horton & Steve Howard of Keep Our Asserts Canterbury (KOA) today appeared before the Select Committee to speak in support of KOA’s submission on the Environment Canterbury (Transitional Governance Arrangements) Bill. More >>

What the Christchurch City Council Can Learn From Greece

Wednesday, 8 July 2015, 10:53 am | Keep Our Assets

The Government and people of Greece have some valuable lessons to teach the headless chooks of the Christchurch City Council. Specifically the eight Councillors (including the Mayor) who have allowed themselves to be stampeded by debt hysteria and an ideologically-driven ... More >>

We Won't Swallow This Dead Rat

Friday, 5 June 2015, 3:43 pm | Keep Our Assets

The Mayor’s proposal to sell $$750m worth of publicly-owned Christchurch assets over three years instead of doing it all in one hit still adds up to the same thing. More >>

Consultation On Asset Sales An Undemocratic Farce

Friday, 17 April 2015, 1:18 pm | Keep Our Assets

The announcement that the Christchurch City Council has hired Cameron Partners to provide it with “independent” advice on asset sales – which the Council justifies based on a report which it commissioned from Cameron Partners – shows just what ... More >>

Write To SOEs Minister: "Don't Sell Our Power Company"

Friday, 25 October 2013, 10:49 am | Keep Our Assets

Keep Our Assets Christchurch (see here http://www.koa.org.nz/p/endorsees.html for the list of KOA’s constituent groups) says that the arguments about the bargain bin level price of Meridian’s share, and about how much or how little the sale ... More >>

Public win referendum on asset sales

Monday, 2 September 2013, 12:15 pm | Keep Our Assets

John Key should suspend his asset sales programme until a citizens initiated referendum is held, says the Keep Our Assets coalition, whose petition opposing the Government’s unpopular asset sales was successfully validated today. More >>

Keep Our Assets coalition committed to stopping asset sales

Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 2:30 pm | Keep Our Assets

The Keep Our Assets coalition will continue to collect petition signatures to force a referendum on asset sales. The Clerk of the House of Representatives’ initial count, released today, shows that a remaining 16,500 valid signatures are required ... More >>

Keep Our Assets To Picket John Key's Speech

Monday, 22 April 2013, 11:32 am | Keep Our Assets

National Party Mainland Conference Hotel Hanmer & Conference Centre (2 Fraser Close, Hanmer) 10 a.M. Sunday April 28 Keep Our Assets Christchurch members and supporters will be picketing the Prime Minister's keynote speech to this weekend's National ... More >>

Govt must respect Kiwis and hold referendum on asset sales

Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 12:46 pm | Keep Our Assets

The Government needs to give those New Zealanders who have taken the time to sign the petition opposing the sale of our state owned assets some respect, Grey Power President and Keep Our Assets spokesperson Roy Reid said today. More >>

Russel Norman ~ Keep Our Assets Rangiora Meeting

Tuesday, 3 July 2012, 9:53 am | Keep Our Assets

Tue 10/07/2012 12:30 - 1:30pm ~ John Knox Church cnr High & King Sts. More >>

100,000 Kiwis Sign up to Stop Asset Sales

Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 9:27 am | Keep Our Assets

Keep Our Assets Media Release 26 June 2012 100,000 Kiwis Sign up to Stop Asset Sales The campaign to Keep Our Assets can officially confirm that more than 100,000 signatures have been collected in support of a citizens-initiated referendum on asset sales. ... More >>

Asset sales law should be delayed until public has say

Thursday, 14 June 2012, 12:53 pm | Keep Our Assets

The Government’s asset sales law should be put on ice until the public have their say in a referendum says the Keep Our Assets coalition, who are collecting signatures for a citizens initiated referendum opposing the sell down of publically owned power ... More >>

Asset sale petition approved

Friday, 27 April 2012, 4:53 pm | Keep Our Assets

The Clerk of the House has approved the wording for the petition to get a citizens initiated referendum on asset sales. The agreed wording is - Do you support the Government selling up to 49 per cent of Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Power, ... More >>

Keep Our Assets campaign calls on kiwis to make submissions

Monday, 2 April 2012, 11:47 am | Keep Our Assets

The members of a community campaign against asset sales are urging New Zealanders to make submissions on the Government’s proposed legislation to sell shares in our power companies and Air New Zealand. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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