However, Regulations Minister David Seymour is rejecting the criticism from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development.

The law would also set up a Regulatory Standards Board, which would respond to concerns raised around the consistency of ...

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

Former PM Sir Geoffrey Palmer analyses what's wrong with the Regulatory Standards Bill and wonders if we've reached a new low in NZ political life.

The Regulatory Standards Bill presented by ACT Party leader David Seymour is complex, but the heart of the matter is about how the rules and regulations that we all live by are put together, and ...

The Regulatory Standards Bill does not allow companies to sue the government for policies that affect their profits, despite what critics say ...

The NZCTU opposes the Regulatory Standards Bill in the strongest terms.The "principles of responsible regulation" set out in the Bill reflect the ...

The ACT Party fought to have a Treaty of Waitangi clause stripped out of amended education legislation - but was overruled. ACT leader David Seymour says not removing it entirely has "certainly ...

We celebrate the Declaration of Independence as the “opening act” for a series of “main events” that laid the foundation of ...

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 ...

An NDP MPP says Bill 5, that will give the government the power to override environmental and municipal laws, underestimates First Nations.

From the beginning of the American experiment, one of its animating principles has been limited government overseen by ...