Justice for all?

Those becalmed in lockdown could do worse than swap their jigsaw puzzles for Parliament’s fiendish three-dimensional version, the reform of the Resource Management Act (RMA).

Online hearings are under way into the draft of a new law, which will have to mesh in with a companion law on climate change and with numerous other not-quite-finished reforms, including water management, local government and housing acceleration.

Confoundingly, what’s being looked at here is an “exposure draft” of the Natural and Built Environments Act (NBEA), which means it’s at a stage where vital pieces of the puzzle are not yet included. So far it’s mostly sky.

The environment select committee hearings