November 30, 2023
Back on track or just back plan
New Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has listed 49 actions on the coalition Government’s first 100 days list.
Laws set to go include the Fair Pay legislation, the Water Services Entities Act, also known as Three Waters, the Therapeutics Products Act, and last year’s changes to the Smokefree Environments Act.
Legislation will be introduced to wind up the Māori Health Authority – and presumably to return back to the hospital system the half billion dollars of programmes it has been given responsibility for.
The Reserve Bank will be instructed to think only of inflation and not of unemployment.
The Auckland Regional Fuel Tax, the Clean Car Discount scheme and blanket speed restrictions will go, along with any work on Significant Natural Areas.
Primary and intermediate teachers will have to rejig their timetables over the summer to meet a new requirement to teach an hour of reading, writing and maths each day, and they will also have to enforce a ban on cellphones.
Public funding for section 27 cultural reports as part of sentencing will be also gone, and legislation introduced to ban gang patches.
Mr Luxon says work will start to crack down on serious youth offending.