Video episode available on my Substack. Former Green MP and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage joins Melanie for a deep dive into the Government’s sweeping proposals to “modernise conservation land management" — reforms she believes will dismantle decades of hard-won protections for our public estate. Framed as streamlining, efficiency, and “unlocking” economic opportunities, the changes would shift DOC’s focus from preservation to enabling economic activity, making i...
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Video episode available on my Substack. Former Green MP and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage joins Melanie for a deep dive into the Government’s sweeping proposals to “modernise conservation land management" — reforms she believes will dismantle decades of hard-won protections for our public estate. Framed as streamlining, efficiency, and “unlocking” economic opportunities, the changes would shift DOC’s focus from preservation to enabling economic activity, making i...
#5: Economist Geoff Bertram: What the Regulatory Standards Bill Reveals About the Future of Government
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1 hour 7 minutes
5 months ago
#5: Economist Geoff Bertram: What the Regulatory Standards Bill Reveals About the Future of Government
In this episode of Coherent, economist Geoff Bertram joins me to explore the Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) and the deeper ideological project driving it. With a career spanning decades in regulatory economics, macroeconomic policy, and the history of economic thought, Geoff offers a sweeping and incisive analysis of how this seemingly technical Bill threatens to upend New Zealand’s democratic and regulatory foundations. Geoff traces the RSB’s lineage from the Business Roundtable’s agenda of...
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Video episode available on my Substack. Former Green MP and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage joins Melanie for a deep dive into the Government’s sweeping proposals to “modernise conservation land management" — reforms she believes will dismantle decades of hard-won protections for our public estate. Framed as streamlining, efficiency, and “unlocking” economic opportunities, the changes would shift DOC’s focus from preservation to enabling economic activity, making i...
