The Greens’ successful call for an Auditor General’s probe into the Government’s pokies-for-convention-centre deal with SkyCity has stalled the negiotations – despite the Nats’ claims it wouldn’t derail their attempt to sell our gambling law. No meetings have been held since the A-G’s investigation began two months ago. With any luck, it’ll push out the legislative timeline past the 2014 election.
Greens put pokies deal on ice
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Long may the Auditor General investigate.
I wonder if the Nats will have the arrogance to use urgency to push the dirty deal through before the next election.
What a different outcome tot he Maori water rights action. So, National’s daily polling must indicate that the public they tout to are not happy with this…
It is a sorry state of affairs that we have a parliamentary system in which the only hope for the majority of the people to stop a government with a one vote majority is to have to rely on the Auditor General and Waitangi Tribunal .
In Direct Democracy, once a bill passes Parliament the people have a limited time in which to gather signatures to put that bill to a referendum. If the voters approve, the bill is law. If they vote it down, the bill is in the dustbin.
I have had a guts full of this dictatorial system. We need checks on the parliamentary dictatorship.