Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Ryan Bridge: We need less fighting, more long term thinking in Wellington

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Sinopsis

There's no reason parties on left and right in New Zealand politics can't work together to get stuff done.  This week we've seen it with the India FTA. It's essentially just deal-making.  It'll pass because a party not in government joined forces with two in government to make it happen.  We've seen it with a member's bill, put forward to Labour's Arena Williams, on international money transfers.  When you transfer money to somebody overseas, the banks and transfer companies can basically say what they like about fees and commissions then charge you what they like. They don't need to up front about it.  The bill would force them to tell you what they going to charge before you're charged, rather than find out once the money's left your account. It seems like pretty sensible law-making to me.  It passed its first reading this week. A Labour MP's bill.  National didn't support it. But that didn't matter, because ever other party in the House —including ACT and New Zealand Firs