While this may have been the year of Election 2023, there was plenty to digest from local politics around the country. 

From extreme weather in the north and east, to blurred lines between private and public life in the capital, and then perhaps the most attention a southern council has received in decades, there has been a lot going on over the last 12 months. 

To discuss who performed the best, who sullied their mayoral chains, and what the big issues are in the years to come, Georgina is joined for a local election debate by NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson and Chief Executive of Infrastructure New Zealand, and former mayor of Porirua, Nick Leggett.