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Auckland Council Manukau Ward Labour Candidates
Auckland Council Manukau Ward Labour Candidates Announced
Labour has selected full tickets for Council and Local Board positions across the Manukau Ward of the new Auckland Council.
“The Labour team is committed to ensuring the people of Manukau Ward are heard.
“Residents and ratepayers have been expressing huge concerns about the impact of the new ‘super city’ on their lives and Labour candidates will fight to ensure local voices are not lost from the decision-making processes of the new ‘supercity’ and to secure a fair share of resources is allocated to the Manukau Ward,” members agree.
The candidates selected have between them wide experience as councillors, community board members and community activists, which they will use to effectively represent the vibrant, unique communities of their Ward.
Sitting Manukau City Councillors Alf Filipaina and Efu Koka have been selected as the Labour candidates for the two Council positions representing Manukau Ward.
Labour’s seven candidates for the new Mangere–Otahuhu Local Board have been selected for their mix of Community Board and community work experience.
Leau Peter Skelton and Tafafuna’i Tasi Lauese JP are both sitting members of the Mangere Community Board, Leau Peter being a current Chair and having been elected to the Board in three successive elections. Christine O’Brien, Otahuhu, is currently Deputy Chair of the Tamaki Community Board, which has covered the Otahuhu area since the last amalgamation in 1989.
Other candidates are Carroll Elliott, a Justice of the Peace from Mangere Bridge, Walter Togiamua, a youth development worker with the New Zealand Police, community activist Lydia Sosene, and Rev Iki Pope whose expertise is also in the area of working with young people.
The Otara subdivision candidates for the Otara–Papatoetoe Local Board are all existing members of the Otara Community Board: Tunumafono Ava Fa’amoe (current Chair), Mary Gush and Louisa Lavakula; the Papatoetoe subdivision candidates are youth worker Bill Peace and local community leaders Sukhdev Singh Hundal and Daljit Singh JP.
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