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Speaker 1: Now, if you ever want an example of why the

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Speaker 1: new fast track legislation is not only a good idea

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Speaker 1: but badly needed, I give you Northport. Northport want to

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Speaker 1: expand why to grow? We need to grow because what

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Speaker 1: we do is sell stuff to the world, and for

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Speaker 1: that we need ports. Northport have been denied resource consent,

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Speaker 1: all of them. All the consents, all of them denied.

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Speaker 1: Independent commissioners looked at the application as sent to the

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Speaker 1: local councils, turn them all down. They're now after the

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Speaker 1: Environment Court. Now one of the owners of Northport happens

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Speaker 1: to be tarong A Port. They too have been in

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Speaker 1: the Environment Court lately because they too wanted to expand,

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Speaker 1: and they too were tied up by locals in a

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Speaker 1: seemingly never ending series of red tape and obfuscation. The

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Speaker 1: Taronga case has been going on for years. Both examples

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Speaker 1: would provide jobs, income tax growth, remember those, And yet

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Speaker 1: as a country currently on its needs economically, we still

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Speaker 1: can't seem to find the wherewithal to give ourselves the

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Speaker 1: uppercut required to get our act together. Enter the fast

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Speaker 1: tracked law. Northport is applied to be one of the cases.

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Speaker 1: It would go to a group of vs experts if

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Speaker 1: they take it off at heads directly to the minister

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Speaker 1: who makes the decision. Remarkably, we have opposition from some

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Speaker 1: who argue about democracy and having our say. What they

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Speaker 1: actually mean when you break it down, are knitpickers and

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Speaker 1: councils and single issue zealots who hire lawyers to tie

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Speaker 1: things up and court. In other words, we have the

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Speaker 1: current model. It doesn't work, it's inefficient, it's slow, it's expensive,

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Speaker 1: it's anti growth, and yet they defend it. Like the

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Speaker 1: military academies we've seen, like the health service we've seen,

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Speaker 1: like the sanctions on job seeker. We've seen failed systems

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Speaker 1: defended for no other reason than bloody mindedness. When a

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Speaker 1: business can't do business because of rules and bureaucrats, the

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Speaker 1: system is broken when a country, through rule stemy's growth.

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Speaker 1: Yet I wonder about the future. For more from the

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