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In Brief: Inside the fight over outsourcing in Wellington

In Brief: Inside the fight over outsourcing in Wellington

Public Interest vor 4 Monaten

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Wellington’s councils are under immense pressure. Rates are
rising, infrastructure is failing, and public trust in council
delivery has been badly damaged by a string of high-profile
controversies.

But what if the problem isn’t that councils are doing too much,
but that they’ve spent decades giving away the ability to do
things themselves?

In this interview, Public Interest speaks with Unions Wellington
secretary Ashok Jacob about the new ‘Wellington Works’ campaign
to bring Wellington City Council services back in-house.

The discussion covers outsourcing, Wellington Water, public
ownership, council governance, and why battles over who controls
infrastructure are becoming some of the defining political fights
in the capital.