Albany Ward (local Government)
Albany Ward is an Auckland Council ward which elects two councillors and covers the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board, Hibiscus and Bays and Upper Harbour Local Board, Upper Harbour Local Boards. The two councillors are currently John Watson and Wayne Walker. Demographics Albany ward covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Albany ward had a population of 190,992 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 24,138 people (14.5%) since the 2018 New Zealand census, 2018 census, and an increase of 47,493 people (33.1%) since the 2013 New Zealand census, 2013 census. There were 93,375 males, 97,008 females and 606 people of non-binary gender, other genders in 65,652 dwellings. 3.0% of people identified as LGBTQ, LGBTIQ+. The median age was 39.4 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 35,697 people (18.7%) aged under 15 years, 33,342 (17.5%) aged 15 to 29, 90,375 (47.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 31,578 (16.5%) aged 65 or ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wards Of Auckland
Auckland Council () is the local government in New Zealand, local government municipal council, council for the Auckland Region in New Zealand. It is a territorial authorities of New Zealand, territorial authority that also has the responsibilities, duties and powers of a Regions of New Zealand, regional council and so is a unitary authority, according to the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009, which established the council. The governing body consists of a mayor and 20 councillors, elected from 13 wards. There are also 149 members of 21 local boards who make decisions on matters local to their communities. It is the largest council in Oceania, with a $3 billion annual budget, $29 billion of ratepayer equity, and 9,870 full-time staff as of 30 June 2016. The council began operating on 1 November 2010, combining the functions of the previous regional council and the region's seven city and district councils into one "super council" or "super city". The council was es ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Asian New Zealanders
Asian New Zealanders are New Zealanders of Asian ancestry (including naturalised New Zealanders who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). At the 2023 census, 861,573 New Zealanders identified as being of Asian ethnicity, making up 17.3% of New Zealand's population. The first Asians in New Zealand were Chinese workers who migrated to New Zealand to work in the gold mines in the 1860s. The modern period of Asian immigration began in the 1970s when New Zealand relaxed its restrictive policies to attract migrants from Asia. Terminology Under Statistics New Zealand classification, the term refers to a pan-ethnic group that includes diverse populations who have ancestral origins in East Asia (e.g. Chinese, Korean, Japanese), Southeast Asia (e.g. Filipino, Vietnamese, Malaysian), and South Asia (e.g. Nepalese, Indian (incl. Indo-Fijians), Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Pakistani). New Zealanders of West Asian and Central Asi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2016 Auckland Local Elections
The 2016 Auckland Council election took place between September and October 2016 by postal vote. The elections were the third since the merger of seven councils into the Auckland Council, which is composed of the mayor and 20 councillors, and 149 members of 21 local boards. Twenty-one district health board members and 41 licensing trust members were also elected. Mayoral election Incumbent Len Brown, the only Mayor of Auckland since the position was created, did not contest the mayoralty. New Zealand Labour Party MP for Mount Roskill Phil Goff was elected mayor of Auckland. Governing body elections 20 members were elected to the Auckland Council, across thirteen wards. There were 74 nominations and only one of the 13 wards was uncontested. Rodney (1) The incumbent was Penny Webster. She was defeated by Greg Sayers. Albany (2) The incumbents Wayne Walker and John Watson were both elected to council for another term. North Shore (2) The incumbents were Chris Darb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2013 Auckland Local Elections
The 2013 Auckland Council election took place between 20 September and 12 October and were conducted by postal vote. The elections were the second since the merger of seven councils into the Auckland Council, which is composed of the mayor and 20 councillors, and 149 members of 21 local boards. Twenty-one district health board members and 41 licensing trust members were also elected. The previous elections were in 2010. Early (not final) voting figures are below. The overall effect of the election was a shift of the Auckland Council to the right. Mayoral election Incumbent Len Brown was re-elected. Council ward elections 20 members were elected to governing body of the Auckland Council across thirteen wards. Rodney (1) Albany (2) North Shore (2) Waitakere (2) Waitemata and Gulf (1) Whau (1) Albert-Eden-Roskill (2) Maungakiekie-Tamaki (1) Manukau (2) Manurewa-Papakura (2) Franklin (1) Ōrākei (1) Howick (2) L ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010 Auckland Local Elections
The 2010 Auckland Council election took place from 17 September until 9 October and were conducted by postal vote. The elections were the first since the merger of the seven councils and elected the new Auckland Council, composed of the Mayor of Auckland, mayor and 20 councillors, and 149 members of 21 local boards. It also elected 21 district health board members and 41 licensing trust members. Mayoral election At the close of nominations at 12 noon of 20 August 2010, the following candidates had been nominated for mayor: Governing body elections 20 members were elected to governing body of the Auckland Council across thirteen wards using first-past-the-post. Rodney ward, Rodney (1) Albany ward (local government), Albany (2) North Shore ward, North Shore (2) Waitākere Ward, Waitakere (2) Whau ward, Whau (1) Albert-Eden-Roskill ward, Albert-Eden-Roskill (2) Waitemata and Gulf ward, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Goudie
Michael Goudie is a New Zealand politician who was an Auckland Council Auckland Council () is the local government council for the Auckland Region in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority that also has the responsibilities, duties and powers of a regional council and so is a unitary authority, according to t ...lor. Political career In 2007, Michael Goudie was the youngest ever councillor elected to the Rodney District Council. ''getfrank.co.nz'' In the 2010 Auckland Council elections, Goudie was elected to represent the Albany war ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Irreligion In New Zealand
Irreligion in New Zealand refers to atheism, agnosticism, deism, religious scepticism and secular humanism in New Zealand society. Post-war New Zealand has become a highly secular country, meaning that religion does not play a major role in the lives of most people. Although New Zealand has no established religion, Christianity had been the most common religion since widespread European settlement in the 19th century. Demographics Statistics New Zealand gathers information on religious affiliation in the five-yearly census. Completing a census form is compulsory by law for every person in New Zealand on census night but respondents are able to object to answering the question of religious affiliation, and around 6% do object. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Judaism In New Zealand
New Zealand Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form with Hawaii (8,000–10,000), the joint-second largest (7,500–10,000) Jewish community in Oceania, behind Australia (118,000). The Jewish community in New Zealand is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews. Other Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented and include Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and Bene Israel. A number of converts to Judaism make up the New Zealand Jewish community, which manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions and the Jewish religious movements#Ashkenazic movements, full spectrum of Jewish religious observance. Though they are a small minority, they have had an open presence in the country since the first Jewish immigrants began arriving in 1829. New Zealand has had three Jewish Prime Ministers or premiers, Julius Vogel (1873–1875), Francis Bell (New Zealand politician), Francis Bell and John Key (2008–2016). The first Jewish settlers in New Zealand were Anglo-Jewish t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Age
New Age is a range of Spirituality, spiritual or Religion, religious practices and beliefs that rapidly grew in Western world, Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclecticism, eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars consider it a religious movement, its adherents typically see it as spiritual or as a unification of mind, body, and spirit, and rarely use the term ''New Age'' themselves. Scholars often call it the New Age movement, although others contest this term and suggest it is better seen as a Social environment, ''milieu'' or ''zeitgeist''. As a form of Western esotericism, the New Age drew heavily upon esoteric traditions such as the occultism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the work of Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer, as well as Spiritualism (movement), Spiritualism, New Thought, and Theosophy (Blavatskian), Theosophy. More immediately, it arose from mid-20th-century influen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Buddhism In New Zealand
Buddhism is New Zealand's third-largest religion after Christianity and Hinduism standing at 1.5% of the population of New Zealand. Buddhism originates in Asia and was introduced to New Zealand by immigrants from East Asia. History The first Buddhists in New Zealand were Chinese diggers in the Otago goldfields in the mid-1860s. Their numbers were small, and the 1926 census, the first to include Buddhism, recorded only 169. Buddhism grew significantly as a religion in New Zealand during the 1970s and 1980s with the arrival of Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees, coinciding with increased interest in Buddhist teaching from Western communities. Buddhist associations began forming, such as the Zen Society of New Zealand in 1972 (originally known as the Denkyo-ji Society), often fundraising to organise In the 1970s travel to Asian countries and visits by Buddhist teachers sparked an interest in the religious traditions of Asia, and significant numbers of New Zealanders adopte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Māori Religious Beliefs
Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Cook Islands * Cook Islands Māori, the language of the Cook Islanders Ships * SS ''Maori'' (1893), a steamship of the Shaw Savill Line, shipwrecked 1909 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, sunk in 1915 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, launched 1936 and sunk 1942 * TEV ''Maori III'', a Union Steam Ship Company inter-island ferry, 1952–74 Sports teams * New Zealand Māori cricket team * New Zealand Māori rugby league team * New Zealand Māori rugby union team Other * ''Maori'', a 1988 novel by Alan Dean Foster * Mayotte Mayotte ( ; , ; , ; , ), officially the Department of Mayotte (), is an Overseas France, overseas Overseas departments and regions of France, department and region and single territorial collecti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Islam In New Zealand
Islam is the third-largest Religion in New Zealand, religion in New Zealand (1.5%) after Christianity in New Zealand, Christianity (32.3%) and Hinduism in New Zealand, Hinduism (2.9%). Small numbers of Muslim immigrants from South Asia and eastern Europe settled in New Zealand from the early 1900s until the 1960s. Large-scale Muslim immigration began in the 1970s with the arrival of Indo-Fijians, Indian Fijians, followed in the 1990s by refugees from various war-torn countries. According to the 2023 New Zealand census, there are 75,144 Muslim New Zealanders, representing 1.5% of the total population. The first Islamic centre in New Zealand opened in 1959 and there are now several mosques and two Islamic schools. The majority of Muslims in New Zealand are Sunni, with significant Shia and Ahmadiyya minorities. The Ahmadiyya Community has translated the Qur'an into the Māori language. History Early migration, 19th century The earliest Muslim presence in New Zealand dates bac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |