Entrenchment: the latest storm engulfing Three Waters

Mahuta and Sage have outraged constitutional experts with their brazen efforts to entrench a provision in the Water Services Entities Bill but there's more happening than just that.

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Entrenchment is the latest storm to erupt from last week’s committee stage of the Three Waters reforms. From the public’s perspective the development may appear to have arrived without warning but in reality this was part of a package of items that have been in the pipeline all year, and which are now being introd…