Business of Government: a red letter day for red tape, job market bottoms out and more ...

A deal done between Act's Rodney Hide (left) and National's John Key (right) has come home to roost. (Image: NZPA)

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

It was a red letter day for the Act Party on Tuesday, but not because submissions opened on its Treaty Principles Bill or because of the hīkoi arriving at Parliament’s front door.Rather, it was the day David Seymour opened the red tape tipline and consultation on his proposed Regulatory Standards Bill – resurrecting one from 2011 that National killed off at select committee.Like a sacred quest, faithful neoliberals have long pursued such a statute as the regulatory counterpart to the 1990s Fiscal Responsibility Act (which gifted us...

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