Regulatory Standards Bill 2025

Submission Guide and Explainer for Personalised Submissions

Sector Specific Tool to Explore Regulatory Standards Bill Impacts

Link to make an RSB Submission to the Select Committee

Greenpeace RSB Quick Submission Generator

#BHN interviews Melanie Nelson on the RSB

#BHN Regulatory Standards Bill Special with Tania Waikato

Economist Geoff Bertram: What the Regulatory Standards Bill Reveals About the Future of Government

"The most audacious piece of legislation that we have seen in our lifetimes" I The Hui 2025

Russel Norman on the Regulatory Standards Bill: Deregulation, Democracy, and the Fight for the Environment

Max Harris: The Hidden Agenda in New Zealand’s Regulatory Overhaul

MP Duncan Webb on the RSB: How Property Rights Trump People, Prices, and Democracy

A Legal Straitjacket: Jane Kelsey on Neoliberalism and the Regulatory Standards Bill

The "Everything Bill": Jonathan Boston on Why New Zealand's Regulatory Standards Bill Matters

Marie Doole: Regulatory Capture and the Risks Inside the Regulatory Standards Bill

Democracy or Oligarchy? Chloe Swarbrick on the Regulatory Standards Bill

Bryan Bruce interviews Marama Davidson on the RSB (good overview)

Mata interviews Tania Waikato on the RSB

Would councils still act on climate under the Regulatory Standards Bill?

What Happens to Public Health When Corporates Set the Rules? | Dr Gary Payinda on the RSB

EP - 47 Melanie Nelson on the Dangers of The Regulatory Standards Bill

Regulatory Standards Bill threatens the public interest, public health and Māori rights

The Regulatory Standards Bill: What is it, what does it propose and what's next?

Anne Salmond: What’s wrong with the Regulatory Standards Bill

The dangerous bill has been updated, but how?

A bill of a different magnitude | E-Tangata

How the RSB gives companies more rights than the public

The wisdom is in the contrast | E-Tangata

RSB Presentation to Our Climate Declaration by Melanie Nelson

RSB Presentation to Network Waitangi Whangārei by Melanie Nelson

Legislation: Regulatory Standards Bill 2025 as introduced to Parliament

Waitangi Tribunal Interim Report on the RSB

Cabinet Paper Policy Approvals, Regulatory Impact Statement & Summary Departmental Feedback

Summary of Submissions for proposed Regulatory Standards Bill

The RSB Has Changed — But the Minister Didn’t Say How

Read the Regulatory Standards Bill 2021 which the RSB 2025 is to be based on, with some changes proposed in a discussion document

Download the RSB discussion document outlining changes to the Regulatory Standards Bill 2021 which are being consulted on

Lawyer Max Harris response to consultation on RSB

Jane Kelsey's Submission on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill

Rebecca Sinclair's submission on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill

Submission by Emeritus Professor Jonathan Boston opposing the RSB

The 'dangerous' bill flying under the radar: Melanie Nelson gives an overview in E-Tangata

Will the Regulatory Standards Bill Silence te Tiriti o Waitangi? By Melanie Nelson

Regular analysis and writing on the RSB by Melanie Nelson | Substack

ACT's quest for regulatory reform by Jane Kelsey

Detailed article by Labour MP Duncan Webb on why the Regulatory Standards Bill is a verybad idea

The Neoliberal Con by Dr Ryan Ward (Newsroom)

Anne Salmond: Hunger Games in the Beehive (Newsroom)

Jack Santa-Barbara article: The sleeper proposal that threatens our rights and safety: The Regulatory Standards Bill

Video explainer by MP Duncan Webb on the RSB's extremely serious implications

Video by lawyer Riana Te Ngahue on the RSB

Video by lawyer Tania Waikato on submitting on the RSB

Bryan Bruce Investigates interviews Melanie Nelson on the RSB

BHN interview: Melanie Nelson on the "dull but dangerous" cousin to the TPB, the RSB

Download the RSB Discussion Document which proposes some changes to the Regulatory Standards Bill 2021

Preliminary Treaty Impact Analysis on the RSB from the Ministry for Regulation

Interim Regulatory Impact Statement on the RSB

Download the current Legislation Guidelines, which are a guide to making good legislation (Legislation Design and Advisory Committee)

The Fire Economy by Jane Kelsey. A book providing astute analysis of the effects of the 1980s neoliberal reforms. Includes chapters covering the Regulatory Standards Bill.

Policy Quarterly special edition on the Regulatory Standards Bill (previously Regulatory Responsibility Bill) May 2010. A wide range of very valuable articles and angles.

2007 Hansard record from first reading of the Regulatory Responsibility Bill 2007

2011 Hansard record from the first reading of the Regulatory Standards Bill 2011

2021 Hansard records of first reading Regulatory Standards Bill 2021

Report of the Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce 2009

Download the Business Roundtable paper which first drafted the RSB in the early 2000s. A heavy and detailed read for the dedicated.

Download link to Richard Epstein's report for the Business Roundtable: Towards Regulatory Constitution