Published in Insights, The New Zealand Initiative’s newsletter, 9 October 2015
Last week, I wrote about my colourful experiences promoting local government reform in Britain. Though originally unpopular, the idea to give more power to the people has now become government policy over there.
This week, I would like to apply the same thinking to New Zealand and alert you to our new report on Special Economic Zones, which we will launch on Monday.
Our starting point is a simple observation: National policy-making is a hard and cumbersome process.
Just think of the Resource Management Act (RMA). It is a mammoth law, containing 434 main clauses and running over 683 pages.
Since its commencement in 1991, the RMA has been amended almost every year. But that has not stopped it from being almost impossible to reform properly. There are too many irreconcilable interests at the national level which prevent meaningful change.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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