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Andrew Dickens: Reality lost in conservation bill rhetoric · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: If you're listening yesterday. There was a load of above
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  Speaker 1: and talk back yesterday about the Conservation Amendment Bill, and
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  Speaker 1: it brought to light three issues for me after listening
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  Speaker 1: to a very generic piece of talkback. Firstly, how bad
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  Speaker 1: much of our laws and that stems back to how
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  Speaker 1: it's written in processed. Secondly, that many concerned organizations looking
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  Speaker 1: at you, forrest and bird they are not afraid to scare,
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  Speaker 1: monger and exaggerate to win their way. And thirdly, how
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  Speaker 1: many New Zealanders wily purely on social media to keep
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  Speaker 1: informed on the issues of the day. So for those
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  Speaker 1: who were spooked by the news that land in the
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  Speaker 1: conservation estate could be swapped or sold, they only had
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  Speaker 1: to do a bit of a Google search and they
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  Speaker 1: could find a myriad of expert opinion. For instance, Science
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  Speaker 1: Monitor has loads of opinion on it. Read all that
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  Speaker 1: for many of the people they talked to, much of
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  Speaker 1: the new law updates were sorely needed for a piece
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  Speaker 1: of legislation that was forty years old. On Newsroom, one
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  Speaker 1: expert planner pointed out the sales and swaps of conservation
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  Speaker 1: land already happens, and all this amendment does is make
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  Speaker 1: the process less, clunky. He also wondered why the reality
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  Speaker 1: and the rhetoric was so different, and that lies at
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  Speaker 1: the feet of groups like Greenpeace and Forests and Bird
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  Speaker 1: who made the whole story about sixty percent is going
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  Speaker 1: to be sold, which is not true. All agree it's
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  Speaker 1: a badly written law that's been rushed and is currently
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  Speaker 1: before a select committee with a tight deadline of July
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  Speaker 1: the second. The way we rushed through our law was
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  Speaker 1: a complaint made last week by Sir Jeffrey Palmer, and
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  Speaker 1: we're writing bad law because it's also rushed. Others pointed
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  Speaker 1: out that it takes power away from a minister, which
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  Speaker 1: was a check and balance. That's a concern, But the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing amplified how so many are getting the information
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  Speaker 1: from bias social media, how so many people do not
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  Speaker 1: realize the full story, and how so much of our law,
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  Speaker 1: as I said before, is badly written. So a word
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  Speaker 1: two of advice to the government and Tama Portaker about
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  Speaker 1: this piece of legislation, the Conservation of Endment Bilt. You
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  Speaker 1: have failed to explain this. People have got the wrong
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  Speaker 1: end of the stick. They don't understand the new ones,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps you might want to take your foot Off
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