Related Content Brian Rudman: Is this any way to run a democracy? Under it, the mayor came up with policy and a budget, and the councillors' role was to rubber stamp it. Without a law change, we're stuck with this institutional separation of mayor and councillors. The other 47 per cent totally distrusted council. Asked to judge council's "overall performance", 15 per cent were "totally satisfied", but another 44 per cent were neutral and 5 per cent did not know.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 11, 2016 15:56 UTC