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Analysis piece arguing whichever government forms after the November 2026 election inherits structural choices on natural-hazard funding, managed retreat, and infrastructure resilience. Relevant backdrop for what forestry policy — slash rules, cost recovery, the CCRA amendment bill — gets prioritised next term. RNZ.
With the general election on 29 November, forestry-adjacent policy is in a quiet pre-election phase. The Natural Environment Bill select committee report-back has been pushed to December (RMLA note), and no new ETS or forestry-cost-recovery decisions are expected before polling day. The RNZ natural-hazards analysis in Section 5 is the best primer on which structural choices land on the next government's desk regardless of who wins.