The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association is calling out the Government for creating a law of unintended consequences with reforms to the Incorporated Societies Bill. In a submission to the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee, Association .
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 9:13 am
Radio New Zealand’s plan to defenestrate its Concert FM
classical music network, stillborn and hastily withdrawn at
the start of last year, was the surprisingly mute elephant
in the middle of the select committee room when the public
radio broadcaster’s chairman and chief executive turned up
at Parliament for this year’s annual financial
review.
Contained within the Trojan Horse of a new
youth-oriented music strategy, the plan would have taken the
concert programme off its dedicated national FM network and
replaced it with a “brand” or “platform” targeted at
18-34-year-olds. It was met by angry protests from
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 3:05 pm
The Green Party is backing the calls for the ‘fatally
flawed’ Oranga Tamariki (Youth Justice Demerit Points)
Amendment Bill to be rejected.
“We already know,
based on evidence, that the kind of approach this Bill
represents will only cause more harm to vulnerable children
and young people, will lead to reoffending and will not keep
our communities safe,” Green Party spokesperson for
Justice Golriz Ghahraman says.
The Bill, currently in
front of the Social Services and Community Select Committee,
has been called ‘fatally flawed’ by Children’s
Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft, and rejection calls have
been heard from a number of submitters including Professor