And everyone you voted in, voted for this.

[drcuriosity]

Parliament has passed the wide-ranging Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act. This allows the government to override a number of laws as it desires, without public or parliamentary oversight. It will stay in force until April 2012.

http://nzccl.org.nz/content/concerns-over-quake-emergency-powers-law

The legislation allows Government ministers to make exemptions to, or suspend, almost every law on the statute books, in order to fast track recovery from the earthquake in Canterbury.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/56880/quake-law-described-as-unprecedented

Brownlee’s ‘recommendations’ as section 6 (3) of the Act calls them, “may not be challenged, reviewed, quashed, or called into question in any court.” The only things Brownlee cannot over-ride at the flick of his hand are habeas corpus, the New Zealand Bill of Rights, our right to vote, and the 1688 Bill of Rights. The Human Rights Act has been left off that shortlist.

http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/09/15/gordon-campbell-the-christchurch-earthquake-law/

The law in question:
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2010/0215/latest/whole.html

What the Hell, people.