Increased taxes are not forgotten in road-funding announcement – but look what’s missing from RMA reform statement
Ministers have become adept at burying politically discomforting words in their press statements – or omitting them.
While announcing the passage through their third readings of bills to replace the Resource Management Act, for example, no mention was made of “matauranga Maori” or “the Treaty”.
But be sure they will play a part in the way resource use is managed henceforth.
