Ahiahi mārie, welcome back to the first Spinoff Daily of 2023. Today on The Spinoff, Alex Casey meets the 12-year-old New Zealand dancer who gave creepy doll M3GAN her viral dance moves, Chris Schulz gets a tour of what might be the country’s most holistic work space and Nadine Hura finally comes to appreciate the homemade clothes of her childhood. But first, a new law threatens to change the face of freedom camping – for better or for worse?
Jacob Metzger: “In August of last year, tourism minister Stuart Nash, introduced a new bill, the Self-Contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Bill. It’s still at the select committee stage, but it would introduce a bunch of changes, big and small, based on recommendations from a working group commissioned by the government in 2018 and a report by the parliamentary commissioner for the environment. Why? Well, tourism has always sparked debate, but few issues have been as clamorous as freedom camping. You remember, surely: tourists in decrepit, rust-plagued old death traps caught short, shitting in our city streets and native bush then peeling away in a cloud of diesel smoke, their litter and faeces strewn about the earth. It’s an image. And it’s not inaccurate, but in reality it reflects only a small minority of those who choose to explore Aotearoa by van.”
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Is this Aotearoa’s last summer of cheap freedom camping?
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