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David Seymour says New Zealand has no future if it cannot improve its law making.
Fifteen years after a former Act leader started it, David Seymour is still on a crusade against regulation.
In 2006, then-Act leader Rodney Hide crafted the Regulatory Responsibility Bill. As part of
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Can you imagine wrapping every police district with a publicly elected board of earnest amateurs and turning them into silos? It would be equally pointless. But the most glaring cesspit of duplicated waste would have to be local government. Does the team of 5 million really need to be locally lorded over by 77 councils which we don’t eagerly engage with? The vast majority of Kiwis spurn voting in council elections, as is the case with elected health boards. We largely ignore them. Christchurch City Council has just closed submissions on its Long Term Plan. Less than 1 per cent of the population was sufficiently exercised, or felt there was any point, in having their say on the multibillion-dollar budget.
Can you imagine wrapping every police district with a publicly elected board of earnest amateurs and turning them into silos? It would be equally pointless. But the most glaring cesspit of duplicated waste would have to be local government. Does the team of 5 million really need to be locally lorded over by 77 councils which we don’t eagerly engage with? The vast majority of Kiwis spurn voting in council elections, as is the case with elected health boards. We largely ignore them. Christchurch City Council has just closed submissions on its Long Term Plan. Less than 1 per cent of the population was sufficiently exercised, or felt there was any point, in having their say on the multibillion-dollar budget.
Mike Yardley: We are being swamped in local government bureaucracy
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The looming dissolution of our twenty DHBs is a striking reminder of how over-burdened we are by bureaucracy-building. Layer upon layer of governance structures. Armies upon armies of administrators, replicating the same role and needlessly costing us a bomb. There is no economy of scale.
And as I’ve banged on about this week, democratic representation around these health boards is just feel-good window dressing. It’s tinsel for the masses.
Just imagine if we wrapped every police district with a publicly elected board of ernest amateurs and turned them into silos. How pointless would that be.