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Echo May 24, 2024 7:34 AM. The proposals about more government openness and more emphasis on import-export controls is good.

More emphasis needs to be placed on positive public interest and also public benefit tests to discourage secrecy for the wrong reasons and also prevent banning activities which are of public benefit because they're automatically caught up in blanket bans.

With that in place you also need to revise broader policy to ensure where some activities are permitted you also need access and remedy.

While you need politicians who "Get stuff done" you also need to put the brakes on them so this is given due consideration or you get bad law being rammed through even when it contains known faults.

That creates another set of headaches when attempting to revise or challenge the law.

Politicians can become welded to their policy and fight tooth and nail refusing to accept it needs revision and it can drag on for years causing umpteen problems, expensive legal cases, and everyone their cat and their dog banging their head against the wall.

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