Christine Rose is a New Zealand environmental advocate, a former

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and Deputy Chair of the

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. She is a cheerleader for public transport, safe cycling, and marine conservation. She is an artist and writer.

Political career

Auckland

Rose was Deputy Mayor of the

Rodney District Council Rodney District was a local government area in the northernmost part of New Zealand's Auckland Region from 1989 to 2010. It included Kawau Island. It was created from the amalgamation of Helensville Borough and Rodney County in 1989. The seat ...

and then represented the Rodney constituency in the

. She chaired the Regional Council's transport and urban development committee, the top transport decision making body of the council. She continues to work for a more sustainable transport system, favouring improved, publicly owned bus services, extende
train services
and the construction of a walk and cycleway over the

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. She has also spoken out against the separation of traffic management and service provision between the Auckland Council and Auckland Transport, believing a transport unit integrated into the normal Council structure would be preferable. She argues the "corporate" model does not deliver on the needs of Aucklanders - and that even after her experience of the problematic relationship between the Auckland Regional Council collecting the rates, and the

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having responsibility for operational matters, similar issues around accountability for services continue to occur in the case of the Auckland-wide body. She has however, supported a regional approach to local government, and ran for election for the Rodney seat in the first "Supercity"

Auckland Council Auckland Council ( mi, Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau) is the local government council for the Auckland Region in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority that has the responsibilities, duties and powers of a regional council and so is ...

election. Rose lost this election to former Rodney mayor

Penny Webster Penny Webster is a former mayor of Rodney District and a councillor on the Auckland Council. As mayor of Rodney she headed one of the six main local government entities generally considered as making up the Auckland metropolitan area (Auckland C ...

. Rose stood in the Rodney electorate for

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at the 2011 General election. She stood as a candidate in the 2013 elections, for the post of one of Auckland Council's

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Council seats but failed to be elected despite an endorsement from retiring councillor

Sandra Coney Sandra Lorraine Coney (née Pearce, born 22 October 1944) is a New Zealand local-body politician, writer, feminist, historian, and women's health campaigner. Early life and family Coney was born in Auckland on 22 October 1944, the daughter of ...

. Rose has published both

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and

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writing in a range of publications including local newspapers and online platforms. She has led regional and national campaigns to protect the critically endangered Maui's and Hector's dolphins from human induced threats, particularly set-nets, and pollution.ban these nets and save dolphins say councils, NZ Herald, Tuesday 8 May 2007, Four New Reserves to Protect Dolphins, NZ Herald, 28/5/2008) Rose also campaigns to protect whales and their habitat. She often uses quirk
public arts
an
activities
to highlight environmental, social and transport issues. Since 2020 she has organised, through he
Cetacean Spotting NZ
Facebook group, the country's first nationwid
Citizen Science Cetacean Census
Rose currently works a
lead Agriculture and Climate Campaigner for Greenpeace Aotearoa.
Rose is an award winning philosophy graduate with a BA in philosophy, and politics with First Class Honours, and has done five years PhD study in Local Government Politics.

References

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