An embarrassing big con is being sold to New Zealanders. Hopefully the politicians and public soon learn to look beyond the duopoly’s plea to only have tweaks made to their dominance and then genuine reform can come.
It says something about MacLeod that he had extraordinarily high donations for his campaign and was telling some of his donors that he didn’t need to declare their contributions.
The 1984 reforms were supposedly about getting rid of vested interests from politics and economy. But it’s clear in retrospect that they ended up empowering a brand new set of vested interests.
It’s possibly just a coincidence that the reforms that the new minister has now implemented are the same as the various lobbying documents advocate, but there’s plenty of room to reasonably speculate about the linkages.
Like green energy, green food for humans is proving a disastrous choice. Pretending humans are herbivores and granivores has accompanied an epidemic of ill health.
The power to send applications to the expert panel will now be concentrated in the Office of the Minister of Infrastructure, Chris Bishop. Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Transport Minister Simeon Brown will lose their power.
