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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – Tim Shadbolt and the Cage We Don’t See

How a People’s Mayor Was Slowly Crushed by a System Designed to Fail Every Council in New Zealand There are villains in New Zealand political history – Douglas, Prebble, Richardson, Brash, Key, Seymour – figures who consciously advanced policies of privatisation, asset liquidation, and financial dependency while insisting they were “reforms.” And then there are others. People who wanted to serve and meant well, but who were overwhelmed by a syst…
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thedailyblog.co.nz broke the news in on Sunday, January 11, 2026.
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