Parliament redundant under climate czar
Hidesight: Climate change powers will give Shaw greater licence than Muldoon’s executive fiat.
Rodney Hide
Wed, 25 Sep 2019
Sir Robert Muldoon deployed the Economic Stabilisation Act 1948 to freeze wages, prices and rents and to introduce carless days. He didn’t bother Parliament: He regulated the country by executive fiat.
He explained: “You can do anything provided you hang your hat on economic
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Rodney Hide
Wed, 25 Sep 2019
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