“Before the end of the Q3 Action Plan, the Government will have passed laws that will give police tough powers to go after gangs by restricting their ability to associate and banning gang patches in public, give police more power to get guns out of the hands of criminals, increase access to effective rehabilitation for prisoners on remand, and improve efficiency in the courts and increase access to justice,” Luxon said.
Luxon added that in addition to these laws, the Government would introduce legislation to toughen up sentencing to ensure real consequences for crime, while also launching a military-style academy pilot for serious and young offenders.
“We are also taking steps to keep Kiwis safer on our roads and will introduce legislation to enable roadside testing for drug driving,” Luxon said.
Luxon said having a clear plan with specific actions and timeframes for delivery creates momentum and drives focus across the government.
“Improving education outcomes remains a key part of the plan. The Q3 plan sees the opening of applications for new or converted charter schools, releasing a draft of new English and Maths curriculum, and continuing initiatives to improve school attendance,” he said.
Luxon highlighted actions to deliver high-quality infrastructure that will drive economic growth, boost productivity, and enhance the way of life for New Zealanders.
“This includes passing legislation on our Local Water Done Well policy to deliver financially sustainable water services, opening the $1.2 billion Regional Infrastructure Fund, and making Cabinet decisions on sensible changes to the fast-track consenting programme.”
Luxon noted that New Zealand has become a country in which it is too hard to get things done, emphasising the importance of making it easier to deliver long-term projects.
“My Government is committed to delivering for New Zealanders, which has been demonstrated by the success of the 100-Day Plan and Q2 Action Plan. Kiwis expect us to continue the momentum, and I am determined to do so,” Luxon said.
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. Chris blogs at Chris Lynch Media - where this article was sourced.
“We are also taking steps to keep Kiwis safer on our roads and will introduce legislation to enable roadside testing for drug driving,” Luxon said.
Luxon said having a clear plan with specific actions and timeframes for delivery creates momentum and drives focus across the government.
“Improving education outcomes remains a key part of the plan. The Q3 plan sees the opening of applications for new or converted charter schools, releasing a draft of new English and Maths curriculum, and continuing initiatives to improve school attendance,” he said.
Luxon highlighted actions to deliver high-quality infrastructure that will drive economic growth, boost productivity, and enhance the way of life for New Zealanders.
“This includes passing legislation on our Local Water Done Well policy to deliver financially sustainable water services, opening the $1.2 billion Regional Infrastructure Fund, and making Cabinet decisions on sensible changes to the fast-track consenting programme.”
Luxon noted that New Zealand has become a country in which it is too hard to get things done, emphasising the importance of making it easier to deliver long-term projects.
“My Government is committed to delivering for New Zealanders, which has been demonstrated by the success of the 100-Day Plan and Q2 Action Plan. Kiwis expect us to continue the momentum, and I am determined to do so,” Luxon said.
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. Chris blogs at Chris Lynch Media - where this article was sourced.
8 comments:
This is all well and good but just when (if ever) will they get down to the real meat of things and do the actions involved with getting rid of co-governance. Failure to address these things in a timely manner will no doubt impact negatively on potential improvements to the economy and cost of living issues. Luxon and the Nationals still have their heads firmly up their derrieres in this respect and there are none so blind as they who will not see that if they fail to act, He Puapua will be back before we can blink (if it ever left as the public service seem to be charging ahead with it anyway. Focus on simply the economics will not cut it and in any case, the World, not just NZ, is up against the Limits to Growth as these are well and truly kicking in as this is being typed.
I would like to add to that by mentioning the serious break down in our race relations, caused by the notion that colonialism took away from the idyllic peaceful lifestyle of the so called first settlers. Far from the actual truth. Bob Jones was correct when he talked about Waitangi Day and how it should be commemorated. Now we have serious cases of race driven violence in public places, bus stations and busses. All is not well in The Land of the Long White Cloud. Elected pollitical partys are adding fuel to the fire. It is going to get worse.
Not a word about getting rid of the waitangi tribunal or maori seats.
TJS is absolutely right but ‘first settlers’?
Leftist myth making based on Hitler’s Big Lie technique: repeat a lie over and over until it becomes the ‘truth.’
Paru huas and their sickly white liberal enablers need to cut the crap.
MĀORI ARE NOT INDIGENOUS
‘Indigenous’ means you were here from the very beginning of time, i.e. before knowledge, handed-down memory, and the scientific record can accurately determine.
Indigenous means you didn’t come from somewhere else to settle here.
Clearly, Maori don’t fit the definition of indigenous. They were settlers here, like everyone else.
Their own ‘from whakapapa’ hand-me-downs gleefully recount the killing, eating, enslavement, and dispossession of the people—the Tangata Whenua—who were already living here when the Maori arrived around 1250 AD in ancestral canoes, the names of which are still known today.
Unlike the Australian Aboriginals, who according to carbon dating can hold up time in the land of more than 40, 000 years, Maori are just another wave of immigrants who showed up about 400 years before Abel Tasman made landfall in 1642.
Maori tikanga holds that after death, Maori spirits leave NZ via its northernmost tip, Cape Reinga, to return to their ancestral homeland of Hawaiiki.
Hardly something they’d need to do if anyone alive today descended in part from a Maori was actually ‘Indigenous.’
Nimrods who assert otherwise should be called out loudly and often on the horse wallop they peddle.
Anyone descended in part from a Maori has exactly the same rights as everyone else.
Nothing more and nothing less.
Anon@12.28 the Narcissist in Chief, PM Luxon, seems to think that giving punters a tax cut (that they'll all pay for anyway) and tinkering with the economy, health, & crime, will divert the attention from what's really happening in terms of the division of New Zealand - giving one cohort a special say so (& naturally, consultation fees) on everything, along with our coastline to boot.
The really interesting thing is what's going to happen, and who is going to be held to account, when the punters wake up and realise they have been duped?
That's the thing with narcissists, they seldom can read the room.
Let's face it:
National/Mr Luxon has no intention of getting rid of Maorification in any form- including and especially in co-governance.
e.g. the Fast Track Bill. - read the provisions for Iwi rights and authority in the decision-making processes involved.
The PRM should be asked to explain this position.
Luxon has no intention of openly challenging co-governance in any meaningful way. He's already rejected the Treaty Principles Bill before it's even be discussed in parliament.
I think he actually supports it but no doubt believes we'll all end up happily co-existing and everything will be fair and equitable. That's clear from the Fast Track Approvals Bill which gives ONLY iwi consultation and representation on the proposed expert panels. Remind you of anything starting with Three and ending in Waters!
Anyone with a pulse just needs to listen to the Greens and Te Pati Maori to see what it will actually be like.
The guy's wetter than a waterlogged sponge.
To DeeM
Yes - but when the issue erupts, he will be long gone to the next cushy job.
The same old "ostrich" strategy - advised by Key and Finlayson who are now doing indeed elsewhere
Time is really running out for a referendum.... this is the intention of course. The plan is for He Puapua to accelerate supported by the brainwashed masses.
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