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"Excellence in leadership is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than others think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible."
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Joel Cayford's main submission to the Royal Commission, plus his supplementary submission, and a think piece on the Royal Commission process. Check Joel's Media Release about the ARC's mega-regional-council proposals. "...ARC's submission to the Royal Commission is naive and theoretical, and if implemented would throw the baby out with the bathwater..."  Q: What are your priorities now on the ARC? A: Auckland issues which I think need special attention:
Click to see North Shore cyclepath Q: What are your main achievements during your years in Auckland local government? A: First, I acknowledge the support I've had from other councillors. Without majority or consensus votes my advocacy goes nowhere. The biggest achievement in my first term (1998-2001) was triggering Local Government Act reform to provide for Developer Levies. (Herald Article, Herald Article, Release). I've always pushed to improve governance of transport in Auckland - especially to develop public transport. ARTA was established in 2004, along with a greater commitment to public transport, through new legislation and funding. (Herald Article, Curitiba Conference Paper). (2001-2004) During my term as Chair of the Transport Committee at ARC, we led the development of a new Regional Transport Strategy calling for a big shift in spend from motorways to public transport. But government wouldn't support it, so the whole ARC got into campaign mode! Herald Article. Finally came the big vote of support for rail from Government. After a lot of debate. McShane reply. There's been more, but these are highlights. (2004-2007) All of these achievements required me and the ARC to work closely with our Government and Members of Parliament. Click to play great cycling video |
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 A typical suburban rail and bus station in Hamburg. Click to see Oamaru case study clip Q: When did you become conscious of Environmental issues? A: After I'd lived and worked a few years in Britain during my O.E. Before then I had no real idea - thought nuclear power was the best thing since sliced bread after my education in Oamaru and Canterbury University. I became a mainframe computer simulation expert, and was retained in a project by UK's Ministry of Energy to assess the reliability of contamination predictions produced by the SYVAC simulation of underground nuclear waste disposal. I interviewed US nuclear energy engineers who built and used SYVAC. A Dames & Moore engineer in L.A. told me his job was to signpost disposal sites. He told me, "signs have to last 50,000 years, be readable, be understood by another civilisation. Sphinx have only been around 3,000 years. Human civilisation might not exist. The English language might be extinct. Signs have to indicate danger - don't dig here...". Experiences like these were part of my rethink. Q: Were you active in the UK? A: This was Thatcher's Britain and Reagan's world. There was a lot of activism in London. Concern about limited theatre nuclear war in Europe. I got interested in film and video and worked with others to make campaign videos. We made a drama against Trident modernisation of Polaris for CND. It went round a lot of schools. We made a video with Greenpeace against Sizewell B - a new nuclear power station. I directed and produced some of these campaign videos - including for trade unions about the effect of robots and computers in the workplace, and film for Amnesty International about human rights. It's where I learned how to campaign and how to commmunicate... Click to see Ngati Whatua DVD clip  |
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