“Trust me” legislation - Prohibiting the public interest
Housing and the Environmental Planning and Assessment Bill 2025
* "The new New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025, which slid through parliament in November with bipartisan support and scarcely a murmur from the press, is “trust me” legislation of the worst kind. It stands to destroy everything we love about both city and countryside while benefitting no one except the money boys."
"In each case the effect is a stringent exclusion of irksome externalities like councils, independent agencies and the public, effecting a massive concentration of power in a few hands (those of the planning minister and their appointed staff)."
"We’ve been down this road before, of course – far enough and often enough to know that such a concentration of discretionary power is as democratic as any totalitarian measure, and as dangerous. It’s also a huge and long-recognised corruption red flag."
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https://architectureau.com/articles/prohibiting-the-public-interest/
* "There is no evidence that anyone in this government or the previous government is trying to make houses cheaper. They’re not."
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https://architectureau.com/articles/richard-denniss-housing-is-not-the-only-area-where-politicians-ignore-good-evidence/
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