Rachel Brooking (she/her)

🏥 The importance of a Dunedin tertiary teaching hospital to the south AND all of NZ’s workforce explained 👇 thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360542…

@MrHilariouskiwi environment.govt.nz/acts-and-regul… still not in force but will be mid Jan

Nice to see that all the over enthusiastic small building suppliers have given up promoting the lie of 'Consent Free Small Buildings' after the initial flourish of marketing. Seems the Advertising Standards Authority about misleading ads are not on holiday. @BrookingRachel hello

This is a beautiful calendar for a wonderful writers’ residency in Dunedin 👇

A great show full of talent 👇

Fast-track amendment bill to increase Ministerial interference now reported back from environment select committee selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/82620bc8-8…

@MrHilariouskiwi I have been trying to track down where national environmental standard is at. Asked at annual review today and it is waiting to be gazetted. It has not yet been gazetted so the resource management change required is not yet in force. NZF getting ahead of themselves.

So @BrookingRachel are you going to call out the lying Winston Peters for this lie?

@MrHilariouskiwi Combining resource and building consents into one thing is a problem that I often hear and it greatly annoys me. I will continue to point it out when relevant and I happen upon it.

Dear Rachel, Please do not ever go into bat protecting the lying scum in The National Party. Perceptions - as you well know - are everything. And here are the perceptions of some Twitter folks on Penks lying. He deliberately led people to believe 'no consents'. @BrookingRachel

@MrHilariouskiwi @matroked To be fair there are both building consents and resource consents. Penk is in charge of the legislation for building consents - not resource consents. Bishop has said there will be RMA national direction for the resource consent part.

Herewith an example demonstrating why Greasy Rat Chris Penk cannot be trusted. Auckland region 👇🏻 He lied that anyone can just go ahead and build a minor dwelling with no consents required. Bullshit.

🇵🇱🇳🇿 Thanks @pawelkowalpl for meeting our NZ delegation & for the discussion on hostilities at your borders plus the continued illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @NZinWarsaw @PatrykBlaszczak @TangiU @KahurangiMP

Electoral Commission just told the Justice SC that the changes to electoral law the Govt are pushing through (limiting enrolment to 13 days prior) won’t make vote counting any faster. It will take 20 days to count all the specials. They noted they didn’t recommend the change.

🔨🔨On @the_postnz: Kāinga Ora has more than halved the number of building contractors it employs as its house building programme shrinks. Another datapoint marking out the construction downturn.

Moving dawn pōwhiri, for the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei led the powerful list of speakers who spoke of the importance of activism against the destruction of our environment back then & it’s still needed today. @GreenpeaceNZ

@danielneljack finance.expenditure@parliament.govt.nz

The Parliament website won't even load for the purpose of finding the email address of the Finance and Expenditure Committee to email in my submission saying that I couldn't upload it before the deadline because the website wouldn't work!

#NZ 🚩This is near to the head of Te Waipounamu / South Island’s longest river-The MataAu. Flows another 300km + to the ocean. Everything is downstream. Two public meetings: Dunedin, 7pm Tues 17 June &Wānaka, 7pm Thurs 19 June Details: sustainabletarras.com/2025/06/08/our… #OursNotMine

@cjsbishop “The law only lets them downzone”?

The exceptions have been Auckland and Christchurch. Both have been laggards, for different reasons. Auckland wants to ‘downzone’ flood prone various areas but legally can’t (the law only lets them downzone). Christchurch has just farted around for years, delaying upzoning.

Big news today. Have been working with @MayorWayneBrown and @RichardHills_ on this very important reform to upzone Auckland. This is complicated - RMA gymnastics as the Mayor calls it - but basic thread incoming 1/

Budget 2025 is a disaster for our environment. Conservation investment is MIA while 75% of native species face extinction. The Govt is gambling with $133B in natural assets and our economy. This is environmental neglect, not leadership. We demand better. forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no-n…

In the midst of a climate and biodiversity crisis, the Government is ploughing $200 million into underwriting new gas fields and scrapping major nature funds. Make it make sense 🤦‍♀️ Our response to #Budget2025: wwf.org.nz/news/general/n…

ALL STAGES is different from using urgency for various stages of a bill’s progress. ALL STAGES has no ability for submissions. ALL STAGES leads to unnecessary & inefficient mistakes. ALL STAGES without a regulatory impact stmt when policy worked on for “18mths” cynical or chaotic

PM says law making binary - fast or slow. Rubbish. Can have quite fast law making with short select committee process and the opportunity for opposition MPs to ask officials and submitters questions. Scrutiny. Disgraceful to use all stages urgency. Plus no regulatory analysis!

At 5pm yesterday, the Treasury informed the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi (NZCTU) it has been barred from attending the Budget lock-up on 22 May. This is the first time the CTU has been prevented from attending a Budget lock-up in living memory

@LewSOS I just asked (in committee stage) the Minister in charge of the retrospective pay women less bill if she agreed with the highlighted bit around retrospective laws being bad and 🦗

It's not hypocrisy -- hypocrisy is trivial. This is insincerity. ACT plainly does not believe in the first principle of its own law Decide for yourselves whether ACT is serious about regulatory standards, or if they just want a form of regulation that serves their insincerity

ACT's Regulatory Standards Bill proposal includes the principle: "the law should not adversely affect rights and liberties, or impose obligations, retrospectively" ACT's Brooke van Velden yesterday led retrospective changes to the Equal Pay Act 2020, passed under urgency