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Most people agree the Resource Management Act needs reform, but the government is doing more than just tinker with Labour's changes - they're throwing the whole thing out
"The RMA is broken, and everyone knows it."
"The RMA is akin to a gale-force head wind, battling any attempts to develop anything, anywhere."
"The RMA has enabled a cottage industry of lawyers and consultants, drafting thousands of pages of papers and reports, all designed to block new roads, new wind farms, new apartments in our central cities, and farming in rural New Zealand."
"It tangles progress in a web of process and absurd conditions."
The government is reforming the cursed and convoluted Resource Management Act, and those quotes from a Beehive ne
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