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Why has a bill to relax foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?

  • Written by Jane Kelsey, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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While public attention has been focused on the domestic fast-track consenting process for infrastructure and mining, Associate Minister of Finance David Seymour has been pushing through another fast-track process – this time for foreign investment in New Zealand. But it has had almost no public scrutiny.

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