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Mark Sandford

Jul 23, 2026

13:52
What sort of challenges do they see? What kind of information is most useful to them? What elements of the bill have piqued their interest most? What's their perspective on the whole thing? It's a really
14:04
interesting question.
14:05
I think that to answer the final question first, the local government reorganisation has taken a totally disproportionate quantum of members' interests.
14:19
That's...
14:21
In a way, it's kind of understandable because it's quite easy to get hold of the idea that local council boundaries are going to change, councils are going to be abolished and merged and so on and so forth.
14:32
And that creates a lot of angst locally.
14:36
So it's not surprising that that's taken a lot of attention.

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35:20
What sort of demands has that actually placed on you and your team in terms of providing some context for the consideration of whatever government eventually comes up with?

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