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Seven tribes, one furniture store – The absurd racism of NZ’s consent regime

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Matua Kahurangi
Dec 08, 2025
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ACT MP Simon Court recently posted IKEA’s 2023 Resource Consent Requirements, and the document is a masterclass in how far New Zealand has drifted into full-blown, bureaucratised separatism. The whole thing reads like a cultural compliance manual rather than a straightforward building approval. If this is what a global company must wade through just to …

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