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Monday, March 27, 2006

Opposition to Lyttelton Port Deal Growing

From Alliance Party member, Joe Hendren's Blog

The Keep Our Port Public coalition (KOPP) is holding a public meeting in Christchurch opposing the sale of Lyttelton Port Company to Hutchison, a Hong Kong based multinational corporation. The sale represents the restart of the agenda to privatise publicly owned assets, and there are good indications the sale of the port could be followed by the privatisation of the bus company and Citycare. We already have an impressive list of speakers for the meeting, including

Sir Kerry Burke (the current chair of Environment Canterbury but I don't think he is speaking in this capacity)

Green MP Metiria Turei

Maritime Union of New Zealand

Wayne Butson, Rail and Maritime Transport Union

Murray Horton, CAFCA

So at 7.30 pm on Monday 10 April come along to the Limes Room of the Christchurch Town Hall and stop the privatisation of our port!An opinion piece by Murray Horton of KOPP, 'Moore's mighty sellout' was published in the Press on Friday, and Murray has already received a lot of positive feedback about the article. Murray says the proposed port sale sets a dangerous precedent for the future of other publicly owned assets in Christchurch".

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Personally, they can privatise all those things. There is no need for the city council to own any of them, although a case could be made for requiring the port to be kept in NZ ownership. The unions are taking their typically short sighted viewpoint. Their opposition comes from the undoubted loss of their privileges and perks which they still have some of because of Labour's industrial relations policies. At a deeper level though we must ask questions about the City Council's management both of the port and the council as a whole. The port partnership is seen as necessary to bring in investment in the port, and the reason for selling is that the CCC has sucked all the profit out of the port for years to subsidise their lavish expenditure in the city. Garry Moore is also presiding over a huge decline in staff morale at the CCC since he brought in a new chief executive.

This post does cover a hotchpotch of issues but at its core is the competence of Garry Moore as the mayor and I do think that is seriously questioned.

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