8 Mar 2024

PM confident over completion of 100-day promises

From Morning Report, 7:36 am on 8 March 2024

Friday is the Government's 100th day and the Prime Minister is confident they have completed their 49-point to-do list.

The items ranged from introducing legislation, like Thursday's fast track consenting bill, to stopping work on initiatives driven by the previous Government.

Twenty-one of the 49 items promised to "begin work" on a project, a broad term that is hard to measure.

And four laws were passed with no public input, despite only introduction being signalled under the plan.

These include disestablishing the Māori Health Authority, repealing Three Waters and reinstating 90-day trial periods.

Massey University political professor Richard Shaw spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.