hemebond6d ago
Idiot/Savant
On NRT: Climate Change: Putting polluters above the law - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/05/climate-change-putting-polluters-above.html
Climate Change: Putting polluters above the law

That's the only way to describe the regime's plans to outlaw civil climate suits against polluting companies : The government announced on ...

May 12 at 12:52amWeb
Show threadStrypey3d ago

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"And its just another example of the need for the next government to pass an Omnibus Repeal Bill, to revoke everything this corrupt, tyrannical regime has done."

@norightturnnz, 2026

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/05/climate-change-putting-polluters-above.html

I sympathise with the sentiment. But to me this is not a problem that can be solved by a mass undo on 3 years of bad legislation. Because the next government can just pass an undo on the undo. The problem here, once again, is Parliamentary supremacy.

Climate Change: Putting polluters above the law

That's the only way to describe the regime's plans to outlaw civil climate suits against polluting companies : The government announced on ...

Show threadStrypey3d ago

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The solution to this kind of antidemocratic shitfuckery is a written constitution that Parliament can't amend by simple majority (or ideally, at all). One that obliges Parliament to respect;

1) fundamental human rights, encoded in a constitutional document, including the rights encoded in He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi

#PolicyNZ

Show threadStrypey3d ago

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2) the rule of law, by codifying the structure and powers of the courts, including the Supreme Court's ability to issue ruling that bind Parliament, based on constitutional documents.

3) local government autonomy, both hapū/ iwi and Pākeha. As guaranteed in He Whakaputanga/ Te Tiriti, which if you read the Te Reo Māori versions carefully, asserts the tino rangatiratanga of all the peoples of Aotearoa, not just those with Māori ancestry.

Show threadStrypey3d ago

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4) Anything else corrupt governments routinely use Parliamentary supremacy to mess with, if it makes sense to codify and protect it in constitutional documents.

Show threadIdiot/Savant3d ago

@strypey While some issues needing immediate repeal are obviously BORA-engaging, many (e.g. fast track corruption, MfE disestablishment, climate change fuckery) are less so.

While legislative ping-pong isn't great, if one side starts doing it, then you need to tit for tat, until they accept that that's not how enduring policy is created. It is that simple.

(Plus of course you need to repeal the BORA violations _as well as_ making the BORA supreme. Its all got to go.)