Echo Chamber: Act gets a big win, and ‘everything is ka pai’ for Winston
The Regulatory Standards Bill passed into law, the House got two independent MPs, and Chlöe Swarbrick got serenaded…
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George Laking: The RSB is bad for your constitution
“I was recently quoted as saying the Regulatory Standards Bill ‘will stop lawmakers considering broader public health.’ This exchange led Minister Seymour to question my sanity in a public forum. I stand by my statement.” — Dr George Laking @glaking #RegulatoryStandardsBill #NZ #Aotearoa #Indigedon #NZPol #Māori #ETangata
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/dr-george-laking-the-rsb-is-bad-for-your-constitution/
“I was recently quoted as saying the Regulatory Standards Bill ‘will stop lawmakers considering broader public health.’ This exchange led Minister Seymour to question my sanity in a public forum. I stand by my statement.” — Dr George Laking.
I've made my submission against the #RegulatoryStandardsBill - it was easy to do. I hope many thousands of others will do likewise. Here is an excellent tutorial on how to proceed:
https://mastodon.nz/@BobLefridge/114582054886554628
It will only take as long as is required to vent your spleen and invent some colourful invective against this absolute rubbish piece of proposed legislation.
#RSB #NewZealand
We can't let the Atlas Network set NZ policy. It only takes ten minutes to make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill and there are only two boxes to fill in. 1. Under 'comments' make sure you state clearly that "I oppose the Regulatory Standards bill." You might mention the extraordinary amount of power the bill would give to one Minister (who has serious connections to the Atlas Network). And your thoughts on taxpayers being expected to compensate extractive corporates for loss of profits, when those companies are operating sunset industries and destroying our environment. 2. Under 'recommendations' again reinforce that the Bill and its proposed updates should be rejected. You might also want to add a line opposing a money-wasting referendum. That's it. Go for it! Submissions close 1.00pm, Monday, 23 June 2025. https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCFIN_SCF_E22299B3-B67B-4F74-023D-08DD9688D2C5/regulatory-standards-bill @pezmico #RegulatoryStandardsBill
Finally made my submission for RSB!
my favourite part was mentioning DS's name and telling him that may it be his fourth and LAST attempt.
"The majority of the 22,821 submissions on last year’s consultation on a potential Regulatory Standards Bill weren’t even read by the Ministry for Regulation before proposals on next steps were taken to Cabinet."
#MarcDaalder, 2025
Just remember the call for submissions over the holidays was just a box-ticking Ministry of Disregulation consultation. The select committee process is happening right now;
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We can't let the Atlas Network set NZ policy. It only takes ten minutes to make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill and there are only two boxes to fill in.
1. Under 'comments' make sure you state clearly that "I oppose the Regulatory Standards bill." You might mention the extraordinary amount of power the bill would give to one Minister (who has serious connections to the Atlas Network). And your thoughts on taxpayers being expected to compensate extractive corporates for loss of profits, when those companies are operating sunset industries and destroying our environment.
2. Under 'recommendations' again reinforce that the Bill and its proposed updates should be rejected. You might also want to add a line opposing a money-wasting referendum.
That's it. Go for it! Submissions close 1.00pm, Monday, 23 June 2025.
This is not how democracy functions #DavidSeymour. You cannot use AI to analyse #RegulatoryStandardsBill submissions and discard all submissions opposing your anti democratic and treasonous bill because you consider all opposition to your BS Bill to be political activism.
Seymour said he supported Parliament and government departments using technology to separate out “political activism from people who have a genuine contribution to make about the discussion of the bill”.
So do you suppose David Seymour's #Act Party were so keen to have Te Pāti Māori MP's jailed for performing a #haka because they didn't want them present as Seymour & Act attempt to rush their undemocratic and treacherous #RegulatoryStandardsBill through parliament under urgency?
Regardless of whether you support or oppose this treasonous bill, the dismantling of constitutional and democratic parliamentary process should alarm all #NZTwits. Perhaps #DavidSeymour sees this as a way of guaranteeing his ambition of bringing about a #CivilWar in #Aotearoa #NewZealand. #NZPol #AtlasNetwork #NZInitiative #TreatyOfWaitangi #TeTiritiOWaitangi #ToitūTeTiriti
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/22/regulatory-standards-bill-will-be-debated-under-urgency/
PDF - Summary of Submissions for proposed Regulatory Standards Bill https://www.regulation.govt.nz/assets/Publication-Documents/Information-Release-Summary-of-Submissions-for-proposed-Regulatory-Standards-Bill.pdf
939 read for qualitative analysis is from Appendix 1 - Methodology on page 45, LAST page of the summary
Executive summary (p5)
* 23,000 submissions received.
* consultants used to quantitatively assess support and opposition to the proposed Bill.
* 20,108 submissions (around 88%) opposed
* 76 submissions (0.33%) supported or partially supported it,
* 2,637 submissions (almost 12%) did not have a clear position 2.
2 footnotes on page 5 - Executive summary
1. The Ministry has not undertaken any assessment of whether the population of submitters is representative of the population of New Zealand.
2. The sample of submissions includes all submissions made on behalf of an organisations, iwi or hapū, and
any other submissions with over 10,000 characters.
Earlier post on summary of submissions before bill was introduced
Read the Regulatory Standards Bill 155-1 (2025), https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2025/0155/latest/LMS1016440.html?src=qs
Track progress https://bills.parliament.nz/v/6/e22299b3-b67b-4f74-023d-08dd9688d2c5?Tab=history
* PDF - Answers to frequently asked questions about the Regulatory Standards Bill - 77 KB, pdf https://www.regulation.govt.nz/assets/Publication-Documents/Regulatory-Standards-Bill-FAQs.pdf . Undated but links to the bill in legislation.govt.nz
* FAQ link and David Seymour's press release from bill page in regulations.govt.nz https://www.regulation.govt.nz/our-work/regulatory-standards-bill/
* Scoop link to David Seymour's press release https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2505/S00161/bill-for-transparent-principled-lawmaking-to-be-read-in-the-house.htm
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