An excellent local counterpoint (whatever the topic) to our government's ongoing erosion of democracy as they increasingly use Urgency and the Fast Track Legislation to steamroll things through — Aucklanders getting paid to share views on various topics with council:
about forty Aucklanders attended a Deliberative Democracy forum on pest plants.
The group debated what steps the Auckland Council should take to stop invasive weeds like Moth plant and Woolly nightshade from spreading and to what extent landowners should be made to control them on their properties.