Here's a linktree with some great resources to help people understand it and make submissions against it. Need everyone to be contacting NGOs, iwi etc to make them aware. This is a good resource to send. https://linktr.ee/regulatorystandardsbill
Hi Melanie & Johnathan, I'm anxious to find out if there will be a first reading in parliament followed by a select committee, because I don't think this fiendish bill is being reported as widely as it needs to be both in mass media & social media. Journalists on rnz, the herald & stuff etc. Labour, the Greens & Te Pati Maori need to be shouting about it. The CTU, Green peace, Auckland Action Against Poverty. Its got either be chucked out now or go through a proper select committee process to build oppersition to it.
I'm keen to know too. Labour has just started commenting on it, but totally agree that the media and opposition parties seem to be missing in action. Surely this is worth a bit of work from the beach on! Jane Kelsey didn't hold much hope in the Select Committee process, and emphasised the importance of this consultation. Hopefully there will be an extensive select committee, but it could be rushed through.
The more that I look into this diabolical piece of (expletive deleted) the freaked out I get. The only official agency that we get to have our say to, is the Ministry for Regulation, which was set up by the minister who proposed the Bill in its current form. I don't see hour we can get a fair or even an impartial hearing from such a sham/scam quango.
Yes, that is highly undesirable. Though interestingly, their Regulatory Impact Statement on the proposed Bill opposed it. Consultation is a process with legal parameters, which includes having a genuinely open mind. So if they don't take on the consultation results it's possible someone would take judicial review or court action
Thank you Melanie for your prompt reply, I do hope that you get a chance to enjoy some time in the sun during the silly season, you deserve it. I started trying to choke down their RIS word salad, (I didn't get where I am today by eating vegetables) after my last comment and after emailing contacts on the Green party website, expressing my concern about their conspicuous silence on the RSB. I should probably have copied in email contacts for Te Pati Maori & Labour, to jolt a response from an actual MP who is actually dedicated to the well being of the land & the people. Anyway I've so far only read the 1rst 6 pages so I don't know how much I'll have to read to satisfy myself that the Ministry is opposed to the RSB, even though I have no doubt that you have thoroughly scrutinised the RIS, I don't like to leave any stone un-turned. One thing Muldoon use to say was "do your homework," if I have one regret, it's that I didn't get where I am today by doing my homework, doing my homework is my pre-New Years resolution. ps some of the resources that you've shared re the RSB requiring a login of signup I'm unable to access because, I'm having difficulty with my email password or something, I'm limited to websites emails & youtube. Which is still an improvement when all I had access to was a library or the govt bookshop which had a prohibitive financial cost. Sorry about this rant, I had to vent my spleen somewhere.
Thank Geoffrey, I most certainly will be having some great I'd time off! Let me know which links required sign up - if not social media such as Facebook, and I'll look into it. Definitely a good idea to go through the RIS, I certainly haven't been able to cover anywhere near everything in my writing. The RSB needs many minds on it.
Thanks Melanie, it's mainly the linktree, I was trying to sogn on to,, Ive forgotten my emsil password & I cant seem to get a new one. I've also tried to get on bluesky & even old facebook/meta & instagram because activists still use the, inspite of the coeporate control etc. I there's a few more substack blogs that I intend getting a paid sibscruption to, like Brian Brice & an Australian economist, Steve Keen,after that I probably wont have much time for social media amyway. Ive still gotta do submish to TPB, RSB & the social security amendment billwhicj closes 10 Jan 2025 ,3 sibmish in 2 weeks etc.
Street theatre, a song, or a town cryer, we meed something to alert the attention of the news media. I'm not tech savy enough to get on social media, I'm too unwell to get out & about & don't have contact with many people these days but surely there's a few artists/musicians with a social consciemce i.e. most artists in my experience do have that. Afterall the next revolution will be music & dance. E.g. Hana's haka, the Tetiriti hikoi etc.
Here's a linktree with some great resources to help people understand it and make submissions against it. Need everyone to be contacting NGOs, iwi etc to make them aware. This is a good resource to send. https://linktr.ee/regulatorystandardsbill
Thank you Melanie, as soon as I can get from my phone to my computer I will make use of the resources on the link
Hi Melanie & Johnathan, I'm anxious to find out if there will be a first reading in parliament followed by a select committee, because I don't think this fiendish bill is being reported as widely as it needs to be both in mass media & social media. Journalists on rnz, the herald & stuff etc. Labour, the Greens & Te Pati Maori need to be shouting about it. The CTU, Green peace, Auckland Action Against Poverty. Its got either be chucked out now or go through a proper select committee process to build oppersition to it.
I'm keen to know too. Labour has just started commenting on it, but totally agree that the media and opposition parties seem to be missing in action. Surely this is worth a bit of work from the beach on! Jane Kelsey didn't hold much hope in the Select Committee process, and emphasised the importance of this consultation. Hopefully there will be an extensive select committee, but it could be rushed through.
The more that I look into this diabolical piece of (expletive deleted) the freaked out I get. The only official agency that we get to have our say to, is the Ministry for Regulation, which was set up by the minister who proposed the Bill in its current form. I don't see hour we can get a fair or even an impartial hearing from such a sham/scam quango.
Yes, that is highly undesirable. Though interestingly, their Regulatory Impact Statement on the proposed Bill opposed it. Consultation is a process with legal parameters, which includes having a genuinely open mind. So if they don't take on the consultation results it's possible someone would take judicial review or court action
Thank you Melanie for your prompt reply, I do hope that you get a chance to enjoy some time in the sun during the silly season, you deserve it. I started trying to choke down their RIS word salad, (I didn't get where I am today by eating vegetables) after my last comment and after emailing contacts on the Green party website, expressing my concern about their conspicuous silence on the RSB. I should probably have copied in email contacts for Te Pati Maori & Labour, to jolt a response from an actual MP who is actually dedicated to the well being of the land & the people. Anyway I've so far only read the 1rst 6 pages so I don't know how much I'll have to read to satisfy myself that the Ministry is opposed to the RSB, even though I have no doubt that you have thoroughly scrutinised the RIS, I don't like to leave any stone un-turned. One thing Muldoon use to say was "do your homework," if I have one regret, it's that I didn't get where I am today by doing my homework, doing my homework is my pre-New Years resolution. ps some of the resources that you've shared re the RSB requiring a login of signup I'm unable to access because, I'm having difficulty with my email password or something, I'm limited to websites emails & youtube. Which is still an improvement when all I had access to was a library or the govt bookshop which had a prohibitive financial cost. Sorry about this rant, I had to vent my spleen somewhere.
Thank Geoffrey, I most certainly will be having some great I'd time off! Let me know which links required sign up - if not social media such as Facebook, and I'll look into it. Definitely a good idea to go through the RIS, I certainly haven't been able to cover anywhere near everything in my writing. The RSB needs many minds on it.
Thanks Melanie, it's mainly the linktree, I was trying to sogn on to,, Ive forgotten my emsil password & I cant seem to get a new one. I've also tried to get on bluesky & even old facebook/meta & instagram because activists still use the, inspite of the coeporate control etc. I there's a few more substack blogs that I intend getting a paid sibscruption to, like Brian Brice & an Australian economist, Steve Keen,after that I probably wont have much time for social media amyway. Ive still gotta do submish to TPB, RSB & the social security amendment billwhicj closes 10 Jan 2025 ,3 sibmish in 2 weeks etc.
You should be able to access the linktree without signing in or a password. Good luck with the submissions!
Street theatre, a song, or a town cryer, we meed something to alert the attention of the news media. I'm not tech savy enough to get on social media, I'm too unwell to get out & about & don't have contact with many people these days but surely there's a few artists/musicians with a social consciemce i.e. most artists in my experience do have that. Afterall the next revolution will be music & dance. E.g. Hana's haka, the Tetiriti hikoi etc.
I'm working with a few others on a plan. It's not good timing over Christmas for people to take a new huge issue on board, so working around that