The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has warned that the Regulatory Standards Bill could stymie progress in enabling ...

Documents released to Greenpeace Aotearoa under the Official Information Act reveal that both the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and Treasury have joined the growing list of bodies issuing strong ...

The ACT Party fought to have a Treaty of Waitangi clause stripped out of amended education legislation - but was overruled.

The Regulatory Standards Bill aims to improve the quality of regulation in New Zealand. The Ministry for Regulation received almost 23,000 submissions on the bill - about 80% in t ...

The Regulatory Standards Bill has drawn surprisingly strong opposition. Is it down to the bill's significance, or David ...

Analysis: If the Government decides to seize Methanex's gas or levy a tax on Google or retrospectively change rules on ...

The bill will speed up overseas investment decisions to within 15 days, unless investors applied to residential land, farmland, fishing quotas, or made applications contrary to the national interest.

“I do not acknowledge, believe or trust that the Regulatory Standards Bill won’t give corporations more power… It’s shocking, ...

But David Seymour says in terms of offering condemnation, New Zealand has an independent foreign policy. He says the power of the New Zealand Government speaking its mind is bolstered by it being done ...

Monday 23 June 2025 marks the closing of the select committee submission period on the controversial Regulatory Standards ...

The Māori Development Minister has defended attacks by the opposition arguing he allowed targeted Māori funding to disappear under his watch.

ACT was founded as a party advocating neoliberal economics; neoliberal economists still advise it, even if many of its members do not always appreciate the economics they are signing up to.