The real purpose of the Ministry for Regulation

Written By: - Date published: 5:54 pm, December 14th, 2024 - 1 comment
Categories: act, roger douglas - Tags: , , ,

I naively thought that the newly established Ministry was to repeal and deregulate, reminiscent of the ‘regulations bonfire’ sloganeering by the National Party. Indeed, the way the coalition government has bulldozed its way through NZ laws confirms my early views.

It has taken on big job, which might explain the bloated size of over 90 new staff on gloated salaries. The Minister in charge, David Seymour, has also established a charter school agency where staff also appear to be paid more. This makes me wonder whether there is more than meets the eye and they have a plan in place but finding out might be difficult as undoubtedly, all staff would have signed non-disclosure agreements that seem to be this government’s gold-standard for public transparency and accountability.

Those staff appear to be scraping the bottom of the barrel with ‘reviews’ of obscure rules and regulations. However, this is all smoke and mirrors aimed to detract from the much more serious and sinister agenda of this Ministry. Quite possibly, staff are not even aware of the full picture and genuinely believe that their jobs are for the good of NZ – I do not extend this benefit of doubt to the CEO Gráinne Moss.

While all eyes where on the Treaty Principles Bill and the hīkoi, the same day the consultation on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill opened, which will close 13 January 2025. My eyes glaze over, especially in this warm weather this time of the year, but this Bill is Kryptonite for NZ.

Others, particularly Melanie Nelson, have done an excellent job at analysing these two Bills and how they work together to wreak havoc on NZ.

The Regulatory Standards Bill and the Treaty Principles Bill, individually or together, would fundamentally reshape New Zealand’s economic, social, environmental, and political landscapes.

Three earlier versions of Regulatory Standards Bill have failed; the first was introduced in 2006 by none other than Roger Douglas. But here is the real kicker, arguably, this Bill is the missing piece of the radical reforms that were started in the 1980s also known as Rogernomics and the completion of the ‘Silent Revolution’.

This is the real purpose of the Ministry for Regulation, to finish the longitudinal ACT Project. It is all there for everyone to read and see but few will see through it and realise what it is really happening, something bigger even than the Treaty.

One comment on “The real purpose of the Ministry for Regulation ”

  1. georgecom 1
    14 December 2024 at 7:24 pm

    glad you picked up on the bloated size of seymours ideological bureaucracies and bloated pay packets for his staff. Avergage salary $159,000 for his charter school bueaucracy v average Min of Ed salary of $112,000 and the $101,000 average public service salary. On top of that contractors getting $126 per hour. His bloated red tape bureaucracy paid average of $150,000 x 91 staff.

    I dislike his politics, I detest his hypocrisy. Next centre-left government, cut both those bloated bureaucracies and save hundreds of millions of dollars.

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