30 Jun 2025

Around the motu: Tom Hunt in Wellington

From Nine To Noon, 10:45 am on 30 June 2025
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Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

A council survey has revealed that the people of Wellington don't trust their city council, mayor Tory Whanau has released her Long Term Plan complete with a 12% rates rise, yet another Wellington Water report has come to light highlighting issues with the charging system between the utility and contractor Fulton Hogan, three Interislander ferries will no longer be crossing the Cook Strait, and resource consent for Sir Peter Jackson's plans for a museum at Shelly Bay has been applied for thirteen years after they were initially scrapped.

Tom Hunt is a senior journalist with Wellington paper The Post.