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Speaker 1: Wellington City Councils and the News again for a different reason,

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Speaker 1: though not related to Tory. This time it voted today

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Speaker 1: to support allowing sixteen year olds to vote in local

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Speaker 1: body elections and make and will now make a submission

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Speaker 1: to local government New Zealand's Electoral Reform Group. Ben MacNulty

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Speaker 1: is a Wellington City councilor is with us now?

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Speaker 2: Have Ben cure to Heather Ben, why are you.

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Speaker 1: Guys doing this? It's not going to go anywhere? The

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Speaker 1: government said no, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look there's a we're a member of Algae and Z right,

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Speaker 2: and as a member of Algian and Z we need

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Speaker 2: to import into their submissions and processes. And you're right,

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Speaker 2: whether Algae and Z listened to Wellington, whether the government

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Speaker 2: then listen to Algae and Z. Who's non So it's

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Speaker 2: purely symbolic, but it's still important sometimes to do symbolism

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Speaker 2: and politics. Right.

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Speaker 1: Why is this so important?

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Speaker 2: I think it's important just in terms of the commitment

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Speaker 2: that we've made so we're a young person strategy that

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Speaker 2: we signed off. You know in the last triineum. We

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Speaker 2: have incredibly bright and intelligent young people in our city.

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Speaker 2: And I happen to believe in no taxation about representation,

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Speaker 2: and is about one hundred million that our work is

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Speaker 2: between sixteen to a teen in this country actually produce

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Speaker 2: an income tax, but they don't have any chance to

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Speaker 2: input or say in actually on their future. And I

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Speaker 2: think if you're old enough to operate a motor vehicle,

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Speaker 2: go to court, get married with parential permission, filling out

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Speaker 2: a few circles or numbers on a ballot paper is

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Speaker 2: not the scariest thing that a teenager can do. Then.

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Speaker 1: Look, I know that you guys have a lot of

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Speaker 1: things you can walk in chew gum at the same time,

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Speaker 1: but did any of you ever stop to think that

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Speaker 1: one of the criticisms of Wellington City Council right now

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Speaker 1: is that you guys get distracted by a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of things other than, you know, outside of just dealing

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Speaker 1: with your actual jobs, which predominantly is trying to get

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Speaker 1: the pipes fixed, and that voting for something like this

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Speaker 1: may just reinforce that idea.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I hear that feedback and I totally get it.

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Speaker 2: And unless you're used to the beast of the machinery

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Speaker 2: of council, you're right. Really, as we're walking tough gum

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Speaker 2: like this is our thirty minute item on an agenda

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Speaker 2: that we covered far more meaty things, and how that

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Speaker 2: place with the public, I get, but that can be received.

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Speaker 2: You know that we're not focused on the core stuff.

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Speaker 2: Totally fair criticism, But all I can say is, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was thirty minutes. Are they about seven hour meeting today?

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Speaker 2: So it's not at the expense of anything important that

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Speaker 2: this kind of discussion occurs.

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Speaker 1: Who are you voting for Andrew Little or Ray Young?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Andrew Little one t ten percent?

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Speaker 1: You're a labor man, a I am a labor many.

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Speaker 2: Get that, but you know, no, Look, reality is you

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Speaker 2: need someone around the council who can actually bring the

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Speaker 2: council with them. And that's the problem that I'm Ray's

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Speaker 2: looking to bring in a whole new team because he's

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Speaker 2: been unable to work. And you would have seen Nicholie

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Speaker 2: Young and Christen Mason coming out with endorsements today of

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Speaker 2: Andrew and that's because they actually know that despite the politics,

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Speaker 2: but they don't agree with the pure competency to bring

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Speaker 2: people with him and work around the table and respect,

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Speaker 2: you know, but everyone's got views. I think that's what

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Speaker 2: he carries with them. That's pretty special.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey Ben, thank you, appreciate your time. That's been McNulty,

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Speaker 1: Wellington City councilor.

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