Nick Clark: New Zealand Initiative Senior Fellow on the report looking at whether merging councils will solve the issues with local government

A thinktank suggests we need to move away from a 'bigger is better' mindset when reforming local government.   A New Zealand Initiative report says the Government's plan for creating fewer larger councils through mergers is the wrong fix.   It cites Infrastructure Commission findings that Auckland's 2010 super-city merger delivered more costs than savings. Initiative Senior Fellow Nick Clark told Ryan Bridge that our councils are already large by overseas standards.   He says that if bigger is better, than we would see a lot better results, and we aren’t.   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.