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Mr D Seymour, ideologue, as Minister of Regulation. How long before we get scenarios like Leaky Homes and Pike River again?

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Unfortunately, with things like that, probably long enough that people will be blaming a future government for it

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Let's get rid of productivity commissioner because it keeps telling us we need to tax the rich more and invest more in infrastructure, and have a ministry of deregulation so we can see how many more poor people we can kill off to save money.

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Wasn’t the productivity commission set up by Act under last NACT govt? Flip flippers

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Exactly, Merav. I despair. The far right is now front and centre of govt. It's no laughing matter that a holder of extremest views (one D Seymour) has inveigled his way in....and I'm sure he has a long term plan.

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Something appropriate that this package has been announced on Black Friday sale day!

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Disestablishing the productivity commission? I mean, I know the government hasn't listened to a word they've said in years, but still that seems like an outrageous thing to do! Really puts the spotlight on ACT's ridiculous belief that the unregulated market will provide everything we need. Who actually still believes that, in 2023?

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There is a case though with replacing what the Productivity Commission with a revived Commission for the Future though. Looking ahead, discussing the long term implications of different policy sets, the future, is more than just considering productivity.

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Exactly, Ben.

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The vague and unfunded future has never been more so

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I seem to recall David Seymour saying that all council regulation on (residential) construction should be removed, with building permits replaced by the insurance industry. Thus, if you can get it insured then you can built it.

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yes, looking at that is part of the coalition agreement

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I see both the Environment and Climate change portfolios are both held by ministers outside Cabinet, hmm...........

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"Deeply committed"

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Yes I was just going to post this observation - "no need to waste cabinet time talking about that it seems" ... scary.

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It's fascinating to look at the specifics of ministerial responsibilities, e.g. McKee for firearms. How many separate little roles were able to be devised. But, as others are also commenting above, the responsibilities that have been deemed not worthy of being at the cabinet table by being given to ministers outside Cabinet, climate change, children, trade, tertiary education.......... Yet the racing industry still needs a minister, and at the Cabinet Table!!!

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Apparently, Hunting and Fishing was deemed of sufficient importance to firstly have it as a portfolio at all, and secondly it was deemed important enough to have it in Cabinet.

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Where's my Minister for Gardening and Reading? How niche can you get? This will screw DOC over big time as pigs, goats and deer are some of their biggest problems.

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Don't forget Wallabies...

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What sort of government decides that the interests of people who go hunting and fishing are more important than the welfare of the children of this country. Shameful.

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So we now have a Minister of Agriculture (who unusually isnt an ex farmer) and 3 other Deputy Ministers of Agriculture. Talk about government waste ACT!! Far more MPs at the taxpayers trough than needed & think about all those extra MP's gorging themselves on their boosted cabinet position salaries and perks due to all the deputy ministers spots being newly created.

And feels like our new PM who was the so called "expert at negotiations" rolled over and gave ACT & NZF far more than they deserved.

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Black Friday weekend sale on all rental properties... Get in before the price rises!

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This also slightly scary - not so much about Collins but as much about the alignment of Digitising Government and the GCSB/NZSIS and the Military (but then there is dirty politics and paying back double principle etc.)

Judith Collins - Attorney-General, Minister of Defence, Minister for Digitising Government, Minister Responsible for the GCSB, Minister Responsible for the NZSIS,

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And for "Space"!!????

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To be fair Science, Innovation and Technology are MBIE as is Space which is tightly linked.

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Once we finished burning down this planet we will need a new one to go and destroy.

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That should save the PLA a big chunk of its NZ spying budget

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Climate Change and Environment don’t even get ministers in Cabinet. Shows NACTFirst priorities have little to do with planetary resource overshoot, or climate change or the biodiversity crisis. What future do we have?

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Agree that this should be a major talking point. The physics was always going to move faster than the politics - but it looks like it’s first mover advantage just improved even more.

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The disestablishment of the Productivity Commission?........ FFS!

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Presumably because govts from both sides have done pretty much zero about implementing any of their findings over the years.....

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The fees free policy is to move the free year to the final year, not the third year. That may sound like a distinction without a difference, but some degrees are more than 3 years, and a lot of the uptake of fees-free education has been for qualifications below degrees that aren't three years in duration. For example, students studying one-year qualifications would not be affected by the policy as worded in the Coalition Agreement.

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when would this come into play ? asking for a friend ie daughter/dad

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supposedly 2025

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Nicole McKee, minister of justice (firearms). WTF, fox guarding the chicken coop.

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An NRA sleeper agent?

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National-ACT agreement introduces neoliberalism on steroids. That we absolutely depend on the natural world to survive - for their to be any economy - is evidently beyond their conprehension. Towards the end the agreement (page 10) sets out on-going decision making principles to be followed which includes evidence- based decision making. Most of what is in the agreement does not meet that standard.

Wealthy donors, banks, property developers and overseas hedge fund owners and banks will be happy though.

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And the hordes of mum and dad property investors....who are too short sighted to see what sort of society their asset rich children/grandchildren will have to exist in.

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there are a few hundred thousand of them and most of them will be afflicted/infected/polluted with that evil called GREED

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The Neoliberal Zombie just got a serious jolt of electricity

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Just remember, National have a terrible record of delivery on their promises. Just ask anyone in Christchurch!

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