Dr Eric Crampton: Making sense of the case for compensation in regulatory bill

The Regulatory Standards Bill before Parliament provides no enforceable legal right to compensation for the cost of regulation. It only suggests that compensation can be warranted when regulation takes or impairs property. A sovereign Parliament remains free to ignore that advice, as is made abundantly clear in sections 24 through 26 of the bill.

David Farrar: Hipkins tells the truth

In this interview, Chris Hipkins states that the money given to councils for Three Waters was compensation for taking water assets off Councils, the exact opposite of what Nanaia Mahuta said.

Frank Newman: RMA a failure

The Resource management Act is about to get another makeover, the 21^st since the legislation became law in 1991. The new changes are to be announced within the new few weeks and expected to take up to three years to put into effect. Twenty-one changes in 22 years is a clear admission that the Act is not working, and never has.