Posted: October 8, 2025

Final call: Vote like you mean it!

If you're a grandparent

Vote like your grandchildren are watching

Vote for your legacy. For leaving this place better than you found it.

Vote for a good life in useful work in real industries for our rangatahi.

This time, put aside your grumbles, and find a way to vote with hope for your grandies' future abundance, built on this special place, not things.

If you're young

Vote like you want to stay

Even if you want to leave — I get it, I did too — if we do this right, you'll still want to come back some time and live the good life.

If you're still thinking what's the point? There is a point, this place is made of council↗:

I don’t know how to tell you this. So many things done by council. Did the water come out of your tap? That’s council. Do you want an apartment? The council decides where apartments can go and a lot of the time they decide on “nowhere” and “f*ck you”. Do you like having a huge housing crisis? Councils do those. Do you want to be able to bike without being run over by a truck? Council can make that happen, or more likely, not make that happen and kill you instead.

Enough! I don’t know any other way to say it. So many of your daily problems are caused by council. They get away with it because everyone thinks they’re boring and irrelevant.

Read the full frustrated rant by Hayden Donnell↗, written just for you.

If you're a parent

Vote for your children to come back one day

Once, we could pretty safely say "you'll be back".

But if we give up and keep this place under the thumb, then the things we promote — a cool town with clean beaches, and the slow pace of life with a good job and a decent house with a small mortgage and time for a surf in the morning — won't live up to the hype.

Whatever you do

Vote!

Like you mean it, because it does mean something, it makes a difference, it really does.

Find those voting forms on the fridge, on the table by the door, or under the pile of bills you don't want to face.

Don't post your vote! It's too late, so drop your envelope in one of many orange ballot box locations↗ provided by the council before 12noon Saturday 11 October.

If you don't have voting forms and you're not enrolled, you CAN still cast a special vote at a place near you↗.

One more time for the campaign trail:

Stronger together.
Tātou tātou e.

 
Tūtira mai ngā iwi
Line up together people
Tātou, tātou e
All of us, all of us
Tūtira mai ngā iwi
Line up together people
Tātou, tātou e
All of us, all of us
Whāia te māramatanga
Seek after knowledge
Me te aroha, e ngā iwi!
And love of others - everybody!
Kia tapatahi
Be united
Kia kotahi rā.
Be as one
Tātou, tātou e.
All of us, all of us