Come November 1 we will have a new Auckland and that new Auckland will be built on tradition, values and connected communities.

My family - we have invested over 50 years of our life to this area. My parents bought our family home at 5 Galbraith Street Mt Roskill/Wesley in 1960 and it’s still ours it’s where my brother now lives. Not far away my own family live at 10 Columbia Road in Sandringham.

My parents came to Auckland just after the Second World War from rural Northland and rural East Coast for a better life for themselves and for us their children.

They instilled in us good, honest, traditional values to work hard to know and respect your neighbours and they showed us the value of being a part of a community.

My Mother was proud of her job as a machinist at Klipper Ties on Stoddard Road while my Father had a prestigious job as an Auckland Clerk of Works.

I am a legacy of their hard work I own two Companies and am a Multi-Award winning television programme maker. My brother and two sisters are academics and business people in their own right.

The Owairaka community will contribute vibrant business hubs and promote public private partnerships to the new Auckland but we will not tolerate bureaucratic, PC interference and meddling.

In Galbraith Street our neighbour’s the Meads, the Heihei’s, the Saindbury’s, the Eaton’s, the Ford’s, the Dagg’s, the Casey’s; a close knit street, we looked out for each other. This community will contribute a sense of connectedness to the new Auckland but we will not tolerate unsustainable urban growth at the expense of people.

On Sunday’s I used to run to the top of Mt Albert and at the lookout would stare down at our home in the distance and wait for my Dad to open the kitchen window and wave out to me it was a signal that our Sunday Roast Lunch was almost ready, a little 10 year old girl could run to the top of the mountain alone without fear that may never happen again sadly. This community will contribute safer streets to the new Auckland because there will be a zero tolerance to crime.

Albert-Eden is hosting the 2011 Rugby World Cup. We have an opportunity to show the World that we are champions a proud Nation a conquering All Blacks Rugby Team, a first class Auckland City and most importantly a unified, diversely rich strong vibrant Albert-Eden-Roskill.

This is the time for us to put on our best face we will get our burms trimmed. To put our best foot forward, we will get our footpaths repaired. And to give the world a great Kiwi experience at our shops, our cafes, at our place.

 I’m Claudette Hauiti standing with Citizens and Ratepayers along with Cameron Morris, Sarah Turner and Murray Dorreen, we are seeking selection to the Owairaka Local Board.

IF YOU DON'T STAND FOR SOMETHING YOU'LL FALL FOR ANYTHING

Someone told me or I read it somewhere that if you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything! I think I’m already making a difference with the work I do in television programming making. The stories I tell are about accessibility. Gaining access to sectors of the community that are difficult to enter in order to get better information to make more informed decisions about ourselves, others and our country has been the driving force of my Company FRONT OF THE BOX PRODUCTIONS LTD. I want to continue making a difference and I know working for the Owairaka Local Board is the way to go. Now that I have a little family my attention must be refocused and brought back to my own backyard. I’m doing that here in Owairaka because this is where I grew up and this is where my children are now growing up. These are the 5 issues of priority for me. I know they resonant with Owairaka locals and I’m looking forward to achieving these goals and more.

1. ZERO TOLERANCE TO CRIME
Zero tolerance to crime, littering, tagging and destruction of
public and private property. I will work with the Police, Community groups and residents to ensure all people and property are safe. Greater protection for our hard working business owners and honest shoppers will be my priority. I will work hard to ensure shopping precincts have greater security, better lighting, more parking.

2. REVOKE LIQUOR LICENCES
Revoke licences to off-licence premises. I will work
hard to ensure off-licences are removed from within a 3k radius of all schools, public parks and reserves.

3. CHAMPION LOCAL HEROES
Support Community groups and their work.
I will work hard to ensure community groups have access to resources
and facilities to achieve so they can get on with working for locals.

4. MORE BUSINESSES FOR LOCAL CENTRES
Champion a return of businesses to local areas. I will
work with Business Associations to have small businesses return to local centres
and shopping blocks. Let's fill those empty and vancant shops with viable, sustainable businesses.

5. PROTECTION OF WĀHI TAPU AND ICONIC LANDMARKS
To ensure the historical uniqueness of the area is maintained I will champion the efforts of manawhenua/tangatahwhenua maintaining wāhi tapu and all those groups working towards the preservation of iconic sites.

 

 

Top 5 Issues

1. 1. ZERO TOLERANCE TO CRIME
   Zero tolerance to crime, littering, tagging and destruction of public and private property. I will work with the Police, Community groups and residents to ensure all people and property are safe. Greater protection for our hard working business owners and honest shoppers will be my priority. I will work hard to ensure shopping precincts have greater security, better lightening, more parking.
2. 2. REVOKE LIQUOR LICENCES
   Revoke licences to off-licence premises. I will work hard to ensure off-licences are removed from within a 3k radius of all schools, public parks and reserves.
   
3. 3. CHAMPION LOCAL HEROES
   Support Community groups and their work.
   I will work hard to ensure community groups have access to resources and facilities so they can get on with working for locals.
4. 4. MORE BUSINESSES FOR LOCAL CENTRES
   Champion a return of businesses to local areas. I will work with Business Associations to have small businesses return to local centres
   and shopping blocks.
   
5. 5. PROTECTION OF WĀHI TAPU AND ICONIC LANDMARKS
   To ensure the historical uniqueness of the area is maintained I will champion the efforts of manawhenua/tangatahwhenua maintaining wāhi tapu and all those groups working towards the preservation of iconic landmarks.
   

Personal Profile

My team and I, we’re extremely excited. We’ve stepped up the tempo, we’re knocking on more doors, covering more area and meeting more of the locals that make up this great area of Owairaka.

As I travel around the streets I can’t help reminiscing about my childhood growing up in this neighbour hood. Sarah Turner and I went out to meet the residents living between Owairaka Park and Oakley Creek. For those who know the area, also know that it’s a seldom visited spot by campaigners at either local or central levels. If you know the area you know the streets are there and you know how to get to them. If you’re a pretender to the neighbourhood you can see it from a distance and think the only way to reach it is over the creek.

I used to play on both sides of this area at the Owairaka Park that’s on the main road and along the creek bank; the access way was from either Stoddard or Sandringham Rds. Every home along the handful of streets here looks directly into the Mountain. From either the sitting-room or kitchen windows you can see the summit and the cloud patterns coming in from the Waitakere bringing the westerly winds or rolling slowly in from the North and the warmer breeze. This is not the Northern slopes but rather the South-East side of the maunga. Every single one of the homes built prior 1980’s are State Houses. The newer homes ie: post 1980 are flats or in-fills and privately owned.

According to political ‘experts’ and campaign ‘strategists’ this area is a ‘red-spot’. The whanau here are meant to be Labour supporters – but you know what they’re NOT! These people are ‘my’ people. A couple of whanau are Maori, one or two are Pakeha, some are Pacific Islanders, many more are new immigrant Asian and African. When I say they are ‘my’ people, they are families like mine. They are families with ambition, who aspire for greater things. The Parents we met are Mums and Dads who came to Owairaka from all-over so their children can have a better life than they had, a chance at a better education, the opportunity to work in jobs with potential and prospects. They are also Parents who came to Owairaka for safety and security from war torn countries.

The children we met are kids with one eye on the telly, a homework book on their lap and a hankering to get out and create havoc. What’s stopping them from mischief making are their parents dreams for better, more, safer, happier. Like my family these whanau are also blue collar workers, many working split shift hours for minimum wages. Like my family it will be centre-right politics that will assist them reach their goals. Their hard work ethic will see them break the cycle of welfare dependency. Their ambition for a better education will see their children rise above the negative statistics and achieve beyond the benchmark. These families deserve a centre-right local council that will champion their hard work ethic, that will celebrate their achievements and will reward their ambition. What they do not deserve is a local council that promotes dependency, revels in despondency and offers up excuses for delinquency and disrespect. These locals want a ‘can-do will-do’ local board. They’ll get that with the C&R Team.