Christine Rose is a champion for the Rodney district, offering leadership and advocacy to sustain and enhance our quality of life. 

Christine is politically independent and financially astute.  She supports fair rates for fair services, public ownership of assets, efficiency, accountability, and transparency in council affairs.

 She believes in community empowerment, and strong, open and trusting relationships with the public. She stands for keeping Rodney rural, care of our coasts and catchments, pest free peninsulas, responsible growth management and better transport for all.

 Christine has gained credible political skills supporting Rodney’s communities as a local and regional councillor since 1995, with 9 years at Rodney District Council and 6 years with the ARC. She is the strong voice and smart choice needed for the Rodney seat in the new “supercity”.

 Christine is positive, articulate, bright, courageous, fair and friendly.  She has various relevant university qualifications and loves the great outdoors.

Top 5 Issues

1. Supporting Rodney's communities - giving voice and representation to Rodney's distinct needs and interests in the new Auckland Council.
2. Keeping Rodney rural - managing growth responsibily to enhance our towns and villages while supporting the rural Rodney economy,
3. Fair rates for fair services - cost effective solutions, accountability from contractors and service providers, value for money from rates, decent infrastructure investment
4. Better transport for all - safety and congestion improvements on State Highway 1, including bypasses for Warkworth & Wellsford, road seal extensions, better footpaths, and cycle and bridleway access.
5. Enhancing Rodney's environment - caring for coasts, and catchments, working with communities and landowners to maintain our healthy seas, to enhance our harbours, and improve water quality in rivers, through sound land management - as seen in the Mahurangi and Whangateau Action Plans - extended also to the Kumeu and Kaipara river catchmentss.

Personal Profile

I'm a long term resident of the Rodney District.  Four generations of my family have lived and worked here.  We are farming stock, with a love of the land.  I was raised on a farm and this gives me a real appreciation for the outdoors and rural life. I've been a councillor for the Rodney District at local and regional level for the last 15 years.  I am known for my support of communities and the wider district.

Rodney is a beautiful area with neat little towns and villages and an important backbone which is the rural sector.  If we are to recognise and maintain the value of the rural economy we must support farmers and rural industry.  Rates are an archaic form of funding the vital services that local government provides so it's essential they are as cost effective and economical as possible, while delivering on peoples' needs and aspirations. 

It's unreasonable that people in Rodney still live on unsealed roads, and that our towns and villages are poor in their amenity and infrastructure.  Most areas don't even have basic services but pay rates equal or more than their urban cousins who have all services and amenities.  There is a real equity issue which the new Auckland Council needs to address.  Rural Rodney is important to the region and needs regional recognition and support from the new Council.

Rodney needs a Councillor that is supportive and positive, someone who knows the system, who is independent, smart and works well with colleagues.  I offer friendly, supportive, well informed, intelligent and diligent representation for the people of Rodney. I offer a smart choice for our one seat on the 'SuperCity'.