Nactional's second leg of the trouble

The Auckland Council bill - the second of three establishment bills - was forced through parliament this morning by the Nactional rump. It's an ugly spectacle, these urgency sessions. The government claims to be listening and to have responded to the community and then they go about reversing their own select committee recommendations, the Cabinet then issues some more unilateral diktats (at odds with everything previously rationalised) and then sets about dragging the resulting Frankenstein l

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