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I commented the other day on possible New Zealand cases of government blunders. My former colleague, Ian Harrison, reminded me of his work on another possible candidate, the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill, currently before a Select Committee, which is due to report by the end of July. Ian’s trenchant assessment of MBIE’s work leading up to this bill made pretty sobering reading the first time I went through it, and it was no less disquieting the second time. I’ve seen no sign of any sort of substantial rebuttal to the thrust of the analysis Ian presents.
I’m certainly not indifferent to earthquake risk. I live on the side of a hill in Wellington. And my parents’ apartment block was severely damaged (and later demolished) in the February 2011 earthquake. But this bill just does not look like the fruit of good public policy making, cost-effectively addressing real and…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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