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EDS Special Update: Fast-track Under Scrutiny

27 November 2025

Fast-track is ramping up, but so is our oversight of the new system. This is a special update on our recent fast-track work.

  • Amendment Bill: a bad law made worse
  • Henry VIII Clause: EDS letter to the Attorney-General
  • BusinessDesk report: a likely surge in judicial reviews
  • Waihi North draft decision: out now
  • EDS comments on TTR
  • Southland Wind Farm: EDS invited to comment
  • Santana’s Bendigo gold mine: now in the running
  • Cost Recovery: how much and by whom?
  • Ombudsman correspondence: release of pre-lodgement consultation information

Read the Special Update in full here.