{"id":547677,"date":"2026-07-28T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547677\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:14:22","slug":"wellington-scoop-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547677\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington.Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/graphic-2A-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/graphic-2A-1-430x287.jpg\" alt=\"graphic 2A\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-181747\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by David Christensen and Amanda Knox, Delta Charlie<br \/>Last week we argued that Wellington needs visible governance controls before the amalgamation debate can mean anything useful: evidence logs, decision dashboards, regional delivery visibility, and public accountability trails.<br \/>This week asks the next question: Once you have a steering wheel, can separate councils share an engine room? <a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/?p=181714#more-181714\" class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by David Christensen and Amanda Knox, Delta CharlieLast week we argued that Wellington needs visible governance controls before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-547677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}