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urgency Archive
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Misusing urgency
Since taking office, the National Government has been using urgency with a vengeance. As of today, Parliament has sat for a little over 548 hours. Of these hours, 35% has been under urgency. What does this mean? Due process is condensed, legislation is ill-considered, and the opposition has little time to read let alone apply [...] read moreOctober 23, 2009 8:05 am - 1 Comment -
Submissions required urgently for Urbantramper’s new album
Urbantramper, who this old frog had never heard of before today, has announced that they will produce their next recording ‘under urgency’. read moreOctober 16, 2009 12:45 pm - 11 Comments -
More rushed legislation under urgency
Yesterday, the government decided that once again, it was important to run rough shod over parliamentary scrutiny by passing a motion for urgency and introducing new Bills and asking for debate before anyone had even seen the legislation. The Clerk of the House advises that urgency be accorded the introduction and first reading of [...] read moreFebruary 11, 2009 1:06 pm - 48 Comments -
Sue Bradford on the “Fire at Will” Bill
Sue speaks in the House about the ambiguity in the new 90 day fire at will bill that may prevent fired workers from accessing the dole, despite National’s assurances that this was not their intent: It is this sort of ambiguity that would have been picked up and corrected at a select committee. Ramming this through [...] read moreDecember 15, 2008 12:03 pm - 74 Comments -
Greens make bills available if Nats won’t
I’ve only just realised, after enquiries with the Parliamentary Library, that even though the Nats made the bills being discussed under urgency available in printed form at about 11.35pm last night, they were not being made available in electronic form. How on earth can the public engage in the discussion if they can’t get access to [...] read moreDecember 11, 2008 5:06 pm - 44 Comments -
Hide against the people going to court
Rodney Hide on Morning Report this morning has nailed his colours to the mast . He has come out for restricting the rights of ordinary citizens to appeal decisions of consent panels. Here’s what he said: Allowing just any Tom Dick and Harry to appeal something [to the environment court] is a recipe for endless debate [...] read moreDecember 11, 2008 10:06 am - 105 Comments -
Nats hit new democratic low
Sitting in the House. Gerry Brownlee has just told the House that he has the bills that are to be debated under urgency but he won’t table them. What this means is that MPs are going to have to vote and debate bills they will not see until it is tabled. This gives the first opposition [...] read moreDecember 10, 2008 11:27 pm - 16 Comments -
Nats tax bill costs the low paid
Nats yesterday introduced their tax bill. They dropped the bill on parliament without giving anyone a chance to read it before it hit the house and are pushing it through under urgency without giving a select committee or anyone else a chance to examine it properly. Even the Regulatory Impact Assessment stated that they hadn’t [...] read moreDecember 10, 2008 9:14 pm - 34 Comments -
Make the ETS fair and more urgent
Some of the readers here may have heard my interview on RadioNZ’s Nine to Noon programme last week, outlining the changes the Greens need to see in order to support the ETS legislation. I notice that there has been some robust debate here about the need for action on climate change. For most people, including [...] read moreJune 7, 2008 3:38 pm - 70 Comments
