The podcast discusses how local councils in New Zealand are struggling with lack of control due to unelected staff, outdated laws like the RMA, and questionable spending—such as Wellington City Council's $130,000 art purchase—leading to declining public trust.
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Well, Tama Potaka, they announced a great fanfare about it this afternoon. They say it's the biggest conservation legislation in almost 40 years. So that's how old the last Conservation Act is. So they're upgrading it. And the point that Tama Potaka made was that tourism on conservation land generates about... About $5.3 billion a year, and of course with that it supports jobs across the community and businesses and regional economies, so it's time that this Act was updated. The faster and easier way to get concessions by removing unnecessary rules that you have to undertake to get any permission to do anything. of the conservation estate. So they'll cut the red tape and speed up the decision making. There'll be clearer and more consistent processes for applying the treaty obligations. The bill also... Well I'm not sure they haven't spelt it out in the release that I got couldn't get in a the hold of the bill. Well it's true yeah and the bill also enables international visitor access charges at a small number of highly visited sites. Now well you'll know Heather when you go overseas you're obviously always coughing up to get into certain parks and what have you so it's about time that we did that.
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