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High Court champions prisoners’ rights and Goldsmith gets a Thistoll-whipping – but govt can make law-breaking legal

Maybe there’s no pressure, but stand by for more laws being amended under urgency – to make legal what the Government has done illegally.

The rest of us don’t have that privilege but it’s something governments can do. And it’s something the Luxon government has done already this year.

Will it happen again to remedy more recent transgressions?

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 23/8/23

Legislators flounder in almost 300 pages of amendments as Three Waters bill is debated under urgency

Money saved and money spent are the effects of government decisions announced in the latest ministerial press statements.

Money saved – by being kept out of the hands of the government’s tax collectors – is the effect of Revenue Minister Barbara Edmonds’ confirmation that the “bright-line” test won’t be triggered when owners of flood and cyclone-damaged properties take up voluntary buy-out offers from local authorities.