This is the things they are going to do before the end of the year.
"Drag this dump out of the quagmire" would have been my number one, but theirs is introducing new planning legislation to replace the RMA.
Which is no bad thing. But introducing stuff isn't the same as ticking stuff off, is it?
And in this list, which is 33 "things" long, is part of this Government's image issue.
You most likely won't have read or seen the 33 because it’s a good example of the news cycle, or our attention span, or a bit of both.
Remember when they first came out? There was mass coverage.
A Government with a "to do" list was novel. It showed things you could see and come back later to and check whether it had actually happened.
It was very business like.
You may also remember that, mainly, they get done. This Government has roughly achieved what it set out to do so as an exercise in discipline it deserves some sort of recognition.
But here's the problem - a cheaper power bill and an annual surplus might have been more use.
So as several quarters and lists have passed we appear, and by that I mean mainly the media, to have lost interest. As far as I can tell the latest list is virtually nowhere to be seen, and I do quite a bit of looking.
Further, it starts to look like a list, and this is the problem, that has stuff in it that is a mix of indecipherable, non-specific, and/or part of a sort of ongoing, broad-based thought bubble.
Here's a good example - number 3 is "pass legislation to allow granny flats to be built without a consent". That's perfect; it's simple, clear and ticks the box.
But what about number 15? "Begin the hospitality sector review". Is forecasting the start of a look at something, a thing?
Number 20: "Take cabinet policy decision on options to provide more tools to address antisocial behaviour". Take a decision? For tools? For behaviour?
Come on, that’s stacking a list. That’s whiteboards and blue skies and boring meetings. We have an economic shambles on our hands and your hot, fourth quarter take is some tools for behaviour?
Maybe one of the KPI's in the first quarter could have been "lets not make bollocks up for future lists so they look like we ran out of stuff to do".
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
And in this list, which is 33 "things" long, is part of this Government's image issue.
You most likely won't have read or seen the 33 because it’s a good example of the news cycle, or our attention span, or a bit of both.
Remember when they first came out? There was mass coverage.
A Government with a "to do" list was novel. It showed things you could see and come back later to and check whether it had actually happened.
It was very business like.
You may also remember that, mainly, they get done. This Government has roughly achieved what it set out to do so as an exercise in discipline it deserves some sort of recognition.
But here's the problem - a cheaper power bill and an annual surplus might have been more use.
So as several quarters and lists have passed we appear, and by that I mean mainly the media, to have lost interest. As far as I can tell the latest list is virtually nowhere to be seen, and I do quite a bit of looking.
Further, it starts to look like a list, and this is the problem, that has stuff in it that is a mix of indecipherable, non-specific, and/or part of a sort of ongoing, broad-based thought bubble.
Here's a good example - number 3 is "pass legislation to allow granny flats to be built without a consent". That's perfect; it's simple, clear and ticks the box.
But what about number 15? "Begin the hospitality sector review". Is forecasting the start of a look at something, a thing?
Number 20: "Take cabinet policy decision on options to provide more tools to address antisocial behaviour". Take a decision? For tools? For behaviour?
Come on, that’s stacking a list. That’s whiteboards and blue skies and boring meetings. We have an economic shambles on our hands and your hot, fourth quarter take is some tools for behaviour?
Maybe one of the KPI's in the first quarter could have been "lets not make bollocks up for future lists so they look like we ran out of stuff to do".
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
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First of all. Well done Mike for finally acknowledging the nz big business, super profit, high price colluding problem. Its taken you a while.
In a Jul 25 interview with Liam Dann "Luxon said the government was "pulling all of those levers" to get electricity bills down."
The once honest Luxon appears to be following Willis into the lying politician rabbit hole.
A 2019 electricity price review recommended the nz government:
D3 Make generator-retailers release information about the profitability of their retailing activities›
E4 Give the Commerce Commission more powers to regulate distributors›
F1 Give the Electricity Authority more powers to regulate network access ›
F2 Give the Electricity Authority an explicit consumer protection function›
F3 Update the Electricity Authority’s compliance framework and strengthen its information-gathering powers
So why did the nz government need another expensive 2 year long electricity pricing report?
And why did Nicola Willis and Simon Watts ignore the recommendations, leaving kiwis and kiwi busineeses with life ruining power bills?
Don't tell me Watts and Luxon are joining Willis and Ardern in their post politics, taxpayer funded, luxury retirements?
Rising government spending and public debt create economic stagnation and declining living standards. Many citizens [the majority] believe that the state will give them prosperity and equality. However, the state only makes paper promises by issuing debt, creating a constantly depreciated currency. Taxpayers are constantly expropriated, while the recipients of subsidies become a dependent subclass. Who wins? Bureaucrats.
Deficit spending is not a tool for growth. It erodes prosperity, creates persistent secular stagnation, real wage growth decline, and poor productivity growth. High taxes are not a tool to reduce debt but to justify it.
By manipulating interest rates and maintaining elevated public outlays, governments create a stealthy nationalisation [centralization] of the economy and a slow-motion crisis. This leads to a gradual decline in both purchasing power and living standards. Statism [big government] is Communism.
The solution is to diminish the power of the state, promote sound money, strengthen the private sector, favour entrepreneurship, and make systematic cuts to government spending. Only by refocusing on genuine market-led investment and trimming bureaucratic overhead can economies escape stagnation, restore real wage growth, and revive productivity. Without decisive spending restraint, citizens remain trapped in a vicious cycle of dependency, currency devaluation, and impoverishment.
Why is getting rid of Maorification not No 1 on the list, eh?
It's not Maorification that needs to be removed -
It is TRIBALISM.
There is not one single Māori party, politician or "group" which represents "Māori".
That is why there were over 500 signatures on that "Treaty".
There is no consensus on many issues Māori.
And enforcing a flawed or contentious viewpoint without consensus is TRIBALISM that boarders upon feudal tyranny.
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