David Harvey: A Good Bill and a Bad Detour

Why InternetNZ's call for a digital regulator should be resisted

The Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill is one of the more sensible pieces of legislation to come before Parliament in some time. It does one thing, and it does it well. It should pass. What should not pass — and what should not be smuggled in on its back — is the far larger regulatory apparatus that InternetNZ has used its submission to promote.

The Bill gets it right

Matua Kahurangi: It's time To abolish the Broadcasting Standards Authority....

ACT’s Laura McClure is right: It's time To abolish the Broadcasting Standards Authority

ACT MP Laura McClure has sparked a necessary debate with her member’s bill to abolish the Broadcasting Standards Authority, calling time on what she describes as an outdated and unnecessary institution. After years of creeping overreach, ballooning levies, and increasingly irrelevant regulation, her proposal lands at exactly the right moment.

Mataua Kahurangi: ACC removes race-based targets

ACT has welcomed the decision by the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) to remove race-based targets from a recent tender for delivering injury prevention programmes, following pressure from ACT MP Laura McClure.

Chris Lynch: Free speech row erupts over teacher’s Facebook post on Treaty bill

A complaint over a teacher’s political comments on Facebook has sparked calls for the Teaching Council to throw it out, with ACT Party Education spokesperson Laura McClure labelling the case “vexatious” and a threat to free speech.