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The Dunedin City Council (Māori: Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Ōtepoti) is the local government authority for Dunedin in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority elected to represent the 136,000 people of Dunedin. [1] Since October 2022, the Mayor of Dunedin is Jules Radich, who succeeded Aaron Hawkins. The council consists of a mayor who is elected ...
The Dunedin urban area is served by two state highways, with an additional two state highways and one tourist route serving other parts of the district. The main state highway in Dunedin is State Highway 1, which runs in a north to south-west direction through the middle of the city, connecting Dunedin with Invercargill to the south and Timaru ...
Jackie Gillies + Associates, Dunedin Town Hall, Conservation Report, June 2008, commissioned by the Dunedin City Council. Knight, Hardwicke and Wales, Niel (1988) Buildings of Dunedin. Dunedin: John McIndoe. ISBN 0-86868-106-7; Ledgerwood, Norman (2008) The Heart of a City the Story of Dunedin's Octagon. Dunedin, NZ. ISBN 978-0-473-12989-7
Otago Regional Council (ORC) is the regional council for Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.The council's principal office is Regional House on Stafford Street in Dunedin with 250–275 staff, [1] with smaller offices in Queenstown and Alexandra.
Dunedin was founded by Scottish pioneers in 1848; as a result, many of the city's streets are named for equivalent streets in Edinburgh.. Central Dunedin is centred around The Octagon, a central reserve ringed by a street of the same name on which lie several of the city's main buildings, among them the Dunedin Municipal Chambers, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral, and ...
Regional councils were reduced in number from 20 to 13, territorial authorities (city/district councils) from 200 to 75, and special purpose bodies from over 400 to 7. [4] The new district and city councils were generally much larger and most covered substantial areas of both urban and rural land.
In 2016, the theme was "Connections", celebrating the links between Dunedin communities and the rest of the world. In 2017, the theme was "Ideas and incubation", with the focus on Dunedin's role as an 'incubator city', a city with a major emphasis on education and innovation. [10] The theme for 2019 was "Dunedin Icons".
Since local government reorganisation in the late 1980s, Middlemarch and much of the Strath-Taieri has been administered as part of Dunedin city, the centre of which lies some 80 km to the southeast. Middlemarch is part of the Taieri electorate (formerly known as Dunedin South), [4] and is currently represented in parliament by Ingrid Leary ...