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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 2h

#rantsandreckons on the Local Government (System Improvements) Amendment Bill to the Governance and Administration committee. 🤓

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#rantsandreckons | Dean Knight

#rantsandreckons on the Local Government (System Improvements) Amendment Bill to the Governance and Administration committee. 🤓

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 2h

Great speech by @philtwyford.bsky.social in the House now on the worrying changes to academic freedom in the university sector. Nails it.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6h

#rantsandreckons 🐝

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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · 18h

📢The 2026 ICON•S Annual Conference Call for Submissions is out!

Join us in #Dublin from June 29 – July 1, 2026!

Read the 🧵for details ⬇️

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 1d

#ossobuco

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 2d

❤️

Strictly Obiter @strictlyobiter.bsky.social · 2d

Pre-ordered Hanna Wilberg's Administrative Law in Aotearoa New Zealand. Very excited to read it and really important it's been written. These years Joseph's text is venerable (complimentary) and venerable (derogatory).

www.bloomsbury.com/au/administr...

Administrative Law in Aotearoa New Zealand

This book on administrative law in Aotearoa New Zealand fills a gap with its fresh scholarly account of the law in this area, focusing on analysis of structures…

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 4d

✅

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 5d

Good news. There are further hearings. And I’ve managed to secure 5 minutes…

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 5d

Sigh.

selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/02d9e31a...

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The Wellington Skellington (Spooky) @wellingtonskeleton.space · 5d

The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back on the Regulatory Standards Bill, and the report has just been published. Haven't read it yet, but looks like the Government is, unsurpisingly, pressing ahead with it. #NZPOL
selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/02d9e31a...

Text reads:

"Regulatory Standards Bill Government Bill As reported from the Finance and Expenditure Committee Commentary Recommendation The Finance and Expenditure Committee has examined the Regulatory Standards Bill and recommends by majority that it be passed. We recommend all amendments by majority."

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 5d

And my article on local govt’s purpose annexed to my submission.

openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/jou...

Rhetoric or Reality? Recasting Local Government's Purpose and Role

No description supplied

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 5d

My written submission is now online.

www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/sub...

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 5d

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 5d

Morning Report's Corin Dann appointed RNZ’s new Business Editor

Dann joined Morning Report in 2019.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve just written a note criticising the IPCA proposed regime. And now this would blow that out of the water — and be exponentially worse.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

And, to be clear, both proposals worry me:
1. legislating police power to take photographs
2. allowing police to close areas due to antisocial behaviour or risks to public safety etc.
The latter is extraordinarily worrying discretionary power.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

WTF?

www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

Chris Finlayson follows.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

And Sir Geoffrey gives a rousing constitutional provocation.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

Tā Eddie Durie gives the opening keynote.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 6d

Waitangi Tribunal 50th conference

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New assistant prof job posting at LSE with a focus on crime and criminal justice

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university <spa...

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 7d

Letter from Goldsmith to Rights Aotearoa about the Ia Tangata report.

"Therefore, progressing the Commission’s recommendations is not a priority for the Government at this time."

The Law Commission’s Ia Tangata report Thank you for your email and accompanying letter of 9 September 2025, regarding your concerns about the Law Commission’s (the Commission) report: Ia ‘Tangata Protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics’. The Commission has made 27 recommendations for reform of the Human Rights Act 1993 (HRA). The Commission’s central recommendation is to add two prohibited grounds of discrimination to the HRA, which are: 1. gender identity or its equivalents in the culture of a person, and 2. having an innate variation of sex characteristics. The Commission also makes recommendations on how the 19 existing exceptions which allow, in prescribed circumstances, discrimination based on sex in the private sector, should apply to the two new prohibited grounds. The Commission’s report covers a number of complex questions and will attract a range of views. As Minister of Justice, I will be receiving advice over the coming months about the Commission’s recommendations. Whilst I do not want to predetermine the Government’s response, we have significant commitments and priorities in the Justice portfolio to restore law and order and improve timeliness in the courts. Therefore, progressing the Commission’s recommendations is not a priority for the Government at this time. The Government will formally respond to the recommendations from the Commission as required, by the beginning of March 2026. I acknowledge your request to meet with me, however, I regret that I am unable to meet with you at this time. Thank you for taking the time to write. Yours sincerely

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 8d

Nothing against the clerks re this — I know the managing the cars they had been dealt.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 8d

Somewhat frustrating when I have published scholarship directly on one of the core changes in the bill and provided extensive commentary on another (members access to info). 🤷🏻‍♂️

openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/jou...

Rhetoric or Reality? Recasting Local Government's Purpose and Role

No description supplied

openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 8d

… — and only a couple of lunchtime slots left. Hmm, that’s tricky as that’s when I am convening an important university meeting. 🤷🏻‍♂️ …

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