Peter Dunne: RMA reform

It was ironic that the very week former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer lambasted Parliament and recent governments for too much rushed legislation and excessive use of Urgency, the government announced the repeal of his flagship Resource Management Act and then took Urgency to pass the first stage of its reforms through Parliament.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 18/12/24

When we can’t gamble on greyhounds, maybe the TAB will take bets on how quickly new laws can be raced through the legislative hoops

A Newsroom report about a drafting error in the Crown Minerals Amendment Bill has drawn attention to the Luxon Government’s discreditable urge to legislate in unseemly haste.

The bill – intended to repeal the 2018 ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration and remove some liability from fossil fuel developers for decommissioning their drilling wells – won’t be passed before the end of the year as promised.