Alcohol in Our Lives

The Law Commission released a document in late July 2009 called Alcohol in Our Lives. The document is part of the Review of Regulatory Framework for the Sale and Supply of Liquor. The Law Comission had asked for submissions on the document up until October 30 2009.

As part of forming Rangitikei District Council’s submission a focus group discussion was held with people in the community who deal with alcohol on a day to day basis were invited.

Please click on the following links to view the Council’s submission, Alchohol in Our Lives document or to view the Law Commission website:

Rangitikei District Council’s Submission 

Alcohol in Our Lives document (NOTE: this document is quite a large file and may take a while to download. Please click on the following link to open the document in chapters instead of all at once: Projects Page – Alcohol in Our Lives).

Law Commission Website

Rural Broadband Initiatives

The Government has recently launched its Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative to roll-out fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) to 75% of New Zealanders over 10 years. The initiative focuses on population centres) and has allocated a government investment of up to $1.5 billion to be invested in Local Fibre Companies to achieve this aim. A discussion document on potential measures to facilitate the implementation of this initiative is open for submissions until 27th November 2009.  

In parallel, a Rural Broadband Initiative will roll-out ultra-fast broadband in rural areas, focussing on rural schools and aiming to reach 97% of rural schools over 6 years. The government investment of $48 million will be supplemented by up to a further $250 million made available through a reform of the Telecommunications Services Obligations (TSO). Discussion documents have been released on the Rural Broadband Initiative and TSO Reform and Funding Telecommunication Development: both documents closed at the end of October.

The Council has submitted to the Rural Broadband Initiative and a copy of the submission is available: Rural Broadband Initiative Submission

Information on all the proposals can be found at the Ministry of Economic Development, please click on the following link: MED – Broadband in NZ

Topic Suggestions

Do you have a topic that you would like to discuss?

Is it related to the Council?

If you said yes to the above questions then please leave a comment with your suggestion(s) and that might be the next topic raised on the blog.