Left-wing, right-wing.... confused Wing : the Auckland Super-city

There are currently five 'cities' within the city of Auckland and the recently elected right-wing government are amalgamating the 5 boroughs in the next few years. It's been interesting talking to locals about this. The dad of the home-stay family I am living with thinks that the 'super-city' will centralise the transport, health service and policies to make things easier. He said that centralisation has been discussed before but the previous left wing government were resisting change to keep their electorate happy. The mother said she isn't so interested in lcoal governance because she doesn't own her home. The staff at my placement organisation, Community Waitakere, say that while they are not opposed to the super-city itself, the reforms are being bull-dozed by central government... since getting here, I've been trying to get over the jet-lag, so I've not had a chance to do some of my own research and only been getting biased views.

Besides this, I have been living with a lovely local family and lots has been going on at work...but it has to wait cause the jet-lag is killing me....