Heather du Plessis-Allan: Race relations gives people the ick, but stripping unelected members of voting rights was obvious

OPINION: Auckland Council still has two unelected members with full voting powers.

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PremiumOpinionHeather du Plessis-Allan is the drive host for Newstalk ZB and a columnist for the Herald on Sunday.‌Simon Watts moved to remove the voting rights of unelected members on councils under the Local Government Act. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Credit to Simon Watts. His call to strip the voting rights from unelected members on councils was well overdue.It felt like a call he didn’t want to have to make. It took him weeks to announce the obvious solution.

It was April when news first broke that the

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Race relations gives people the ick, but stripping unelected members of voting rights was obvious

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Race relations gives people the ick, but stripping unelected members of voting rights was obvious

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