https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300980506/election-2023-live-national-shares-its-100-day-plan
"The National Party's 100 day plan
National Party leader Christopher Luxon is holding a rally in Albany right now,
and has published his party's "100 day plan", the list of his party's immediate priorities if elected. We will be livestreaming a stand up with
Luxon after he speaks at the rally.
Here's some of features of the document:
There's a series of policies under the title "rebuild the economy and reduce the cost of living" (though not will directly reduce the cost of living):
Introduce legislation to remove the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax which
adds 11.5 cents per litre of petrol, or $7.70 for a full tank.
Cancel Labour’s planned fuel tax hikes which would add another 12
cents per litre of petrol, or an extra $8 for a full tank.
Repeal Labour’s Ute Tax by 31 Dec 2023.
Stop all work on Labour’s Jobs Tax (Income Insurance Scheme).
Introduce legislation to remove the Reserve Bank’s dual mandate to
get the Bank focused on putting the lid back on inflation.
Instruct public sector chief executives to begin reducing consultant
and contractor expenditure, and to report on current spending within 100 days.
Introduce legislation to restore 90-day trial periods for all businesses.
Repeal Labour’s “Fair Pay” legislation.
Under "law and order" National is promising to:
Introduce legislation to ban gang patches, stop gang members gathering in public, and stop known gang offenders from communicating with one another.
Give police greater powers to search gang members for firearms and make gang membership an aggravating factor at sentencing.
Stop taxpayer funding for section 27 cultural reports.
Introduce legislation to extend the eligibility for remand prisoners to access rehabilitation programmes. (Labour has already started similar legislation)
Introduce legislation to crack down on serious youth offending.
For health and education:
Set five major targets for the health system, including for wait times and cancer treatment.
Improve hospital emergency department health workforce security.
Introduce legislation to disestablish the Māori Health Authority.
Introduce legislation to extend free breast cancer screening for those aged up to 74 years.
Require primary and intermediate schools to teach one hour a day each of reading, writing and
maths starting in 2024.
Appoint an Expert Group to redesign the English and maths curricula for primary school students.
Ban the use of cellphones in schools.
Begin disestablishing the Te Pūkenga polytech mega-merger and restoring local decision-making.
And on housing and infrastructure:
Begin work on establishing a National Infrastructure Agency.
Issue a draft new Government Policy Statement on Transport reflecting National’s new Roads of National Significance and public transport projects.
Stop Labour’s blanket speed limit reductions and start work on replacing the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2022.
****** Repeal Labour’s Three Waters legislation. ****** (My emphasis)
Repeal Labour’s RMA 2.0 legislation and introduce a fast-track consenting regime.
Stop work on Labour’s Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme.
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Well that should keep National busy and Rich howling at National's actions.
If you look through the list was have repeal the woke ideals and ensure that the masses (the people who actually do the productive work) will be given
the rough end of the stick.
Good to see that the 3 waters is still there.
Good also to see a list and a manifesto will be released later to-day.
Interesting that interest paid by landlords on rental properties is not mentioned. National said they were going to go back to the status quo.
There are some lollies in there and some forward thinking ideas and some
action for the situations that have become so bad we simply have to Do Something.
It would be interesting to see how ACT's 100 day plan compares.
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