The first new law he planned to pass would narrow the central bank’s mandate to focus purely on keeping inflation in check, he said.
That would change the Reserve Bank’s current dual focus on low inflation and high employment.
Many of the actions in the 100-day plan involve repealing initiatives from the previous liberal government, which had been in office for six years.
Many of the plans are proving contentious, including the one to repeal tobacco restrictions approved last year by the previous government.
Those included requirements for low nicotine levels in cigarettes, fewer retailers and a lifetime ban for youth.
Others plans around ethnicity, such as disbanding the Māori Health Authority, have been portrayed by Luxon’s government as measures to treat all citizens equally but have been attacked by critics as being racist against Indigenous people.
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