Generation change under way

I missed this Fran O'Sullivan column when it was first published in the Herald a couple of months ago. It talks about how: 'Labour's new breed of business-friendly Cabinet ministers are starting to make a hit with New Zealand business'. O'Sullivan reports that ministers such as Lianne Dalziel and David Cunliffe have been responding to pressure from business in their portfolios. She says that 'Cullen's standard riposte to uppity business folk: "We won, you lost, eat that" - is not the order of the day when it comes to Labour's new generation of ministers, who now lose little opportunity to promote themselves as "on business's side".' Apparently Dalziel has been dazzled by the neo-liberal report called Rethinking Regulation, by an Australian taskforce headed by Gary Banks, with the job of reducing the regulatory burden on business.