Bill submissions in support of the Gene Technology Bill, the Regulatory Standards Bill, the Fast-Track Approvals Bill, and the Misuse of Drugs (Pseudoephedrine) Amendment Bill.
A proposal to review the Commerce Act to 'remove barriers', including regulators that "serve as additional enforcement mechanism for anti-competitive conduct".
On Developing an Enduring National Infrastructure Plan Discussion Document, which states that "Greater private ownership and involvement is likely to be beneficial."
On Have your say on Work Health and Safety, which recommends "that the government moves to allow a greater role for individual employers and employees to contract between themselves for the trade-offs between safety and pay" and finds a role for Private Insurance in this scheme.
On the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) on the 2024 ACC Levy Consultation, to make ACC 'more efficient', and introduce competition, namely private insurance.
On the Consultation on the Scope of the Treasury's Long-term Insights Briefing, which stresses a prudent level of public debt but ignores private debt.
On the Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill which calls the current RMA a handbrake, suggests the RMA makes it much easier for beneficial projects to proceed, respects property rights and includes greater use of economic instruments.
On the Draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport in which fundamental reform is advocated using the 1998 Better Transport Better Roads model.
Their Report "Reining in the Supreme Court" has gained allot of attention too becoming a bit of a poster child of right wing echo chambers (including the NZ Herald).
It sure seems that the NZ initiative/ACT/HobsonsPledge/TaxPayersUnion etc doth protest too much. It is very obvious they are using 'Free speech & freedom' as a mantra to hide behind. They are a well funded, self-serving and devious lot that I wouldn't trust a pet rat with.
Yes imagine having millions to do what they do, Joanna. I was commenting to a friend today that even a "quick" article of mine usually takes me 4-5 hours. Imagine having resources, teams, money etc. It's crazy the amount of reach and power they have - in my view. And I'm not sure anything was wrong with free speech in our country before - at least that's my opinion.
I will miss Professor Robert’s blog. He showcased the benefits of free speech and facts, and he wasn’t afraid to speak his mind until the toxic environment this government has created silenced his voice. Shame on them.
Robert’s ‘chumocracy’ insights were particularly pointed, and sadly, accurate. The New Zealand government has been - repeat, has been - captured by powerful elites and influential big businesses. Oligopolies rule. Lobbyists free range. CEOs rake in the big bucks and drive fast cars. The average Kiwi goes stoically backwards.
Meanwhile, things just get worse. Inequality widens. People struggle. One in four New Zealand children sometimes go without food. 1 in 4. One in four. How else can I write it? I mean, what will it take for people to really wake up? For Pacifica children it is 1 in 2. One in two, that sometimes go without food. Let that sink in. How is that not a National emergency, a crisis…of conscience at the very least. And yet, the media report on Seymour’s streamlining of hairdressing regulations or the latest word salad from Luxon prattling on about chunking down the big rocks on the track or some bullshit.
It’s fascinating to note that Luxon-the-entitled one and all of his sycophantic advisors believe so intensely, so emphatically, that ‘BIG government’ should NOT be running our lives. Why then do they think BIG business running our lives is ok?
These evangelists for liberty believe ‘Free markets’ will set you…wait for it….freeeeeeee, of course. There is however a caveat: the freedom they speak of is only achievable if you have capital or access to it. If you haven’t, it doesn’t matter how clever you are or how hard you work, it’s a tough road ahead. We’re in the ‘inheritocracy’ age now, ain’t it grand?
So grab your drink of choice and queue Leonard Cohen: “Everybody knows the fight was fixed, the poor stay poor, the rich get rich, that's how it goes.” And Leonard’s right, everybody knows, especially Luxon and his dodgy mates.
Excellent comment. Isn't it interesting that those who believe in small government and the free market, also rely on government handouts and tax breaks such as the uncapped Investment Boost scheme, or the government underwriting apartment developers such as Ockham, or underwriting gas exploration.
Ngā mihi MT. Remember JMM telling NZers that we just had to know a Luxon better… Well, as we get to know NZInitiative better, especially Oliver and Eric, I just feel more and more rage that these evil hypocrites are regularly given space in MSM. I hope that they are nearby when the revolution comes!
Thank you MT. What’s interesting me at the moment on the Newsroom comments is that when there’s an opinion piece from one of the junk tanks, sometimes the writers will respond to comments from us plebs. I found myself in this situation the other day regarding a piece about the need for more public voice. A nice premise, you’d suppose. Amongst other things, the writers wrote how huge numbers of kiwis (2/3rds of all Kiwis!) support the Treaty principles bill - there’s a survey out there that proves this, they said! So it should go to referendum!!! I said I didn’t believe this and also mentioned the RSB bill that in the initial submission showed how much people were against it. Now, I’m no one important, so why reply to me? But they did and basically said I was dumb and that they welcomed my evidence for my claims and essentially rubbished that 99.67 people want the RSB bill gone. I was so astounded by their blinded blinkers I couldn’t even reply.
The great, ginormous irony of all of this is that we’ve just had the most enormous silencing of public voice through the ‘push through in urgency’ dismantling of pay equity. Did the writers mention this lack of public voice. Not a whiff. Everything on their list that MUST have public voice is ACT-tinged.
The survey they refer to, Celeste, is the one Curia Market Research (David Farrar) did for them. It's mainly used by ACT & affiliates, and on the day of its release, I recall a 1News poll said most people didn't understand the Treaty Principles Bill and most didn't support it.
Judging by the emails sent, your account doesn't surprise me!
That’s so interesting. Cherry picking stats as usual, and disregarding everything else that goes against what they think. Seymour is guilty of this all the time.
The cruel corruption of our society forcing serfdom upon us knows no bounds. What the dumb fucks don't realise, is, that's what causes revolutions as Kieth opines
While ACT/NZ Initiative/the corporations etc have massive resources - money and skills - for flooding the airwaves/media/conversations with their thinking - there is increasing evidence of push back - these blogs for one, comments on Facebook and other social media forums for another, and the public protests. There is also increased exploration of renewing communal links/activities - a bottom up approach to challenging the hold of the Greed economy on our lives. I picked up a book in a sale - first published 2021 but very pertinent to what we are facing, a book of essays by a range of experts in their fields. edited by P Clayton et al, "The New Possible" - it is full of both critique and hope. Worth a read if you can find it!
“Chumocracy” & “Cosyism” - he (Prof. Robert MacCallough) perfectly encapsulates how our own class war is proceeding without being outright “corrupt”. Reminds me of those slogans saying “everything Hitler did was legal”. It’s easy when you just re-write the rules and pass laws under urgency to meet your ideological based greed. Neo-feudalism anyone?
Yes, as Chris Bishop said early last year, lobbyists were surrounding him, and they "want to use the law" - laws that Bishop et.al change to these donors' benefit
The woman seems rather fixated on Robertson's sexuality - how else to explain the sexualised overtones here? Its reminiscent of the 'how big is his hole?' performance in the House.
Recently I've been reading about Pinochet's Chile and watching some Friedman videos, and it is chilling. And it explains how our country is failing hard, if Friedman's clones in the NZ Initiative are advising Luxon. Watching Friedman is like seeing Seymour, they have the same speech patterns. When asked a question, they both either outright lie or misdirect. Occasionally the odd shocking truth is spilled which gives you an idea of their shriveled inner souls.
One of Friedman's biggest lies was calling his experiment in Pinochet's Chile the "Miracle of Chile", when it was actually an abject failure. Perhaps he believed his own propaganda.
It's really worrying that these cultists have the reins here in NZ. They blindly follow the handbook in pursuit of instituting a pure neolib philosophy, ignoring the failures and the harm they're doing to humanity along the way. Like any cult, they're dangerous.
This 100%: We as a society generally understand that freedom of speech operates alongside the principles of responsible speech - speech that doesn’t incite violence and hatred, perpetuate lies and misinformation etc”.
Kind of sad how we have to step back and think about what should be natural and common sense. We're being gaslit and manipulated so much, and it's not OK. It's corrosive like poison ... unfortunately. Hopefully it pushes more people to self-reflect....or band together for a positive future.
The values New Zealand used to be proud of have been totally undermined, gaslit and subsumed by the BS machine running our country. I think our democracy is in peril of collapse at the same rate as the health system.
Since the beginning of 2024 the NZ Initiative have made a large number of submissions to government. Including (from their submissions page https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/submissions/):
Bill submissions in support of the Gene Technology Bill, the Regulatory Standards Bill, the Fast-Track Approvals Bill, and the Misuse of Drugs (Pseudoephedrine) Amendment Bill.
A proposal to review the Commerce Act to 'remove barriers', including regulators that "serve as additional enforcement mechanism for anti-competitive conduct".
On Developing an Enduring National Infrastructure Plan Discussion Document, which states that "Greater private ownership and involvement is likely to be beneficial."
On Have your say on Work Health and Safety, which recommends "that the government moves to allow a greater role for individual employers and employees to contract between themselves for the trade-offs between safety and pay" and finds a role for Private Insurance in this scheme.
On the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) on the 2024 ACC Levy Consultation, to make ACC 'more efficient', and introduce competition, namely private insurance.
On the Consultation on the Scope of the Treasury's Long-term Insights Briefing, which stresses a prudent level of public debt but ignores private debt.
On the Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill which calls the current RMA a handbrake, suggests the RMA makes it much easier for beneficial projects to proceed, respects property rights and includes greater use of economic instruments.
On the Draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport in which fundamental reform is advocated using the 1998 Better Transport Better Roads model.
Their Report "Reining in the Supreme Court" has gained allot of attention too becoming a bit of a poster child of right wing echo chambers (including the NZ Herald).
Thank you this is very useful information. I have pinned and will come back to review as well.. Cheers, Mike.
It sure seems that the NZ initiative/ACT/HobsonsPledge/TaxPayersUnion etc doth protest too much. It is very obvious they are using 'Free speech & freedom' as a mantra to hide behind. They are a well funded, self-serving and devious lot that I wouldn't trust a pet rat with.
Thanks for exposing and shedding light on them.
Yes imagine having millions to do what they do, Joanna. I was commenting to a friend today that even a "quick" article of mine usually takes me 4-5 hours. Imagine having resources, teams, money etc. It's crazy the amount of reach and power they have - in my view. And I'm not sure anything was wrong with free speech in our country before - at least that's my opinion.
Welcome.
Did you ever take that break? Takes me hours to read all the information flying about. Sitting on a bus in Waipawa so plenty of time today smile 😃
2-3 days I think 🧐
Nice one MT.
I will miss Professor Robert’s blog. He showcased the benefits of free speech and facts, and he wasn’t afraid to speak his mind until the toxic environment this government has created silenced his voice. Shame on them.
Robert’s ‘chumocracy’ insights were particularly pointed, and sadly, accurate. The New Zealand government has been - repeat, has been - captured by powerful elites and influential big businesses. Oligopolies rule. Lobbyists free range. CEOs rake in the big bucks and drive fast cars. The average Kiwi goes stoically backwards.
Meanwhile, things just get worse. Inequality widens. People struggle. One in four New Zealand children sometimes go without food. 1 in 4. One in four. How else can I write it? I mean, what will it take for people to really wake up? For Pacifica children it is 1 in 2. One in two, that sometimes go without food. Let that sink in. How is that not a National emergency, a crisis…of conscience at the very least. And yet, the media report on Seymour’s streamlining of hairdressing regulations or the latest word salad from Luxon prattling on about chunking down the big rocks on the track or some bullshit.
It’s fascinating to note that Luxon-the-entitled one and all of his sycophantic advisors believe so intensely, so emphatically, that ‘BIG government’ should NOT be running our lives. Why then do they think BIG business running our lives is ok?
These evangelists for liberty believe ‘Free markets’ will set you…wait for it….freeeeeeee, of course. There is however a caveat: the freedom they speak of is only achievable if you have capital or access to it. If you haven’t, it doesn’t matter how clever you are or how hard you work, it’s a tough road ahead. We’re in the ‘inheritocracy’ age now, ain’t it grand?
So grab your drink of choice and queue Leonard Cohen: “Everybody knows the fight was fixed, the poor stay poor, the rich get rich, that's how it goes.” And Leonard’s right, everybody knows, especially Luxon and his dodgy mates.
https://youtu.be/xu8u9ZbCJgQ?si=q-GkhIkrG5gz2Y5l
Excellent comment. Isn't it interesting that those who believe in small government and the free market, also rely on government handouts and tax breaks such as the uncapped Investment Boost scheme, or the government underwriting apartment developers such as Ockham, or underwriting gas exploration.
Ngā mihi MT. Remember JMM telling NZers that we just had to know a Luxon better… Well, as we get to know NZInitiative better, especially Oliver and Eric, I just feel more and more rage that these evil hypocrites are regularly given space in MSM. I hope that they are nearby when the revolution comes!
Thank you MT. What’s interesting me at the moment on the Newsroom comments is that when there’s an opinion piece from one of the junk tanks, sometimes the writers will respond to comments from us plebs. I found myself in this situation the other day regarding a piece about the need for more public voice. A nice premise, you’d suppose. Amongst other things, the writers wrote how huge numbers of kiwis (2/3rds of all Kiwis!) support the Treaty principles bill - there’s a survey out there that proves this, they said! So it should go to referendum!!! I said I didn’t believe this and also mentioned the RSB bill that in the initial submission showed how much people were against it. Now, I’m no one important, so why reply to me? But they did and basically said I was dumb and that they welcomed my evidence for my claims and essentially rubbished that 99.67 people want the RSB bill gone. I was so astounded by their blinded blinkers I couldn’t even reply.
The great, ginormous irony of all of this is that we’ve just had the most enormous silencing of public voice through the ‘push through in urgency’ dismantling of pay equity. Did the writers mention this lack of public voice. Not a whiff. Everything on their list that MUST have public voice is ACT-tinged.
The survey they refer to, Celeste, is the one Curia Market Research (David Farrar) did for them. It's mainly used by ACT & affiliates, and on the day of its release, I recall a 1News poll said most people didn't understand the Treaty Principles Bill and most didn't support it.
Judging by the emails sent, your account doesn't surprise me!
That’s so interesting. Cherry picking stats as usual, and disregarding everything else that goes against what they think. Seymour is guilty of this all the time.
Yes he’s been trained
In this day and age they probably have AI that searches all the various platforms and creates a response based on their input.
Alas this will be my last opportunity to participate in commenting as my subscription is ending and I cannot afford it.
Worth noting Willis was also involved as a director of the New Zealand Initiative, as are some in NZ First.
Damn, Tui you've nailed it ...again.
The cruel corruption of our society forcing serfdom upon us knows no bounds. What the dumb fucks don't realise, is, that's what causes revolutions as Kieth opines
While ACT/NZ Initiative/the corporations etc have massive resources - money and skills - for flooding the airwaves/media/conversations with their thinking - there is increasing evidence of push back - these blogs for one, comments on Facebook and other social media forums for another, and the public protests. There is also increased exploration of renewing communal links/activities - a bottom up approach to challenging the hold of the Greed economy on our lives. I picked up a book in a sale - first published 2021 but very pertinent to what we are facing, a book of essays by a range of experts in their fields. edited by P Clayton et al, "The New Possible" - it is full of both critique and hope. Worth a read if you can find it!
“Chumocracy” & “Cosyism” - he (Prof. Robert MacCallough) perfectly encapsulates how our own class war is proceeding without being outright “corrupt”. Reminds me of those slogans saying “everything Hitler did was legal”. It’s easy when you just re-write the rules and pass laws under urgency to meet your ideological based greed. Neo-feudalism anyone?
Yes, as Chris Bishop said early last year, lobbyists were surrounding him, and they "want to use the law" - laws that Bishop et.al change to these donors' benefit
I'm amazed the 'money bazooka' tweet isn't a parody account!? What the...?
Finance Minister and #2 in Party
The woman seems rather fixated on Robertson's sexuality - how else to explain the sexualised overtones here? Its reminiscent of the 'how big is his hole?' performance in the House.
Recently I've been reading about Pinochet's Chile and watching some Friedman videos, and it is chilling. And it explains how our country is failing hard, if Friedman's clones in the NZ Initiative are advising Luxon. Watching Friedman is like seeing Seymour, they have the same speech patterns. When asked a question, they both either outright lie or misdirect. Occasionally the odd shocking truth is spilled which gives you an idea of their shriveled inner souls.
One of Friedman's biggest lies was calling his experiment in Pinochet's Chile the "Miracle of Chile", when it was actually an abject failure. Perhaps he believed his own propaganda.
It's really worrying that these cultists have the reins here in NZ. They blindly follow the handbook in pursuit of instituting a pure neolib philosophy, ignoring the failures and the harm they're doing to humanity along the way. Like any cult, they're dangerous.
This 100%: We as a society generally understand that freedom of speech operates alongside the principles of responsible speech - speech that doesn’t incite violence and hatred, perpetuate lies and misinformation etc”.
Kind of sad how we have to step back and think about what should be natural and common sense. We're being gaslit and manipulated so much, and it's not OK. It's corrosive like poison ... unfortunately. Hopefully it pushes more people to self-reflect....or band together for a positive future.
The values New Zealand used to be proud of have been totally undermined, gaslit and subsumed by the BS machine running our country. I think our democracy is in peril of collapse at the same rate as the health system.
Classic frogs being boiled in a pot analogy at play.