It's quite amazing how much from the last 6 years is getting undone. I don't think that's really happened for a long time from an incoming govt (maybe 1984 was the last time?). Generally governments might repeal 1 or 2 high profile things, and then just water down everything else they don't like. Some of it seems to be nonsensical from an economic point of view (e.g. removing Māori names from ministries, legislating English as an official language). Allowing oil & gas exploration has very little economic basis, since there's not really much in the way of viable oil & gas fields left.

The COVID related stuff could be worrying (at least the direction it's coming from), but I doubt it'll have much impact unless they really fuck with the review process. So long as it's mostly experts involved, I'm sure sanity will prevail. Let's just hope there's not a major COVID outbreak while this government is in power.

Let's Get Wellington Moving cancelled... I guess Act wants Wellington to stand still?

Overall, it's mostly stuff we'd expect, or it's things that are not really going to have much impact (i.e. reviews, etc that'll probably go nowhere). I doubt National will support a referendum on the Treaty. It also looks like the housing/cost of living crisis will get worse, at least in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

So much of it just seems like petty idealogical change just for the sake of it.

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