Salient. Victoria University students' Newspaper. Volume Number 39, Issue 7. April 12 [1976]
Bureaucracy or Democracy?
Bureaucracy or Democracy?
At present the officers in the New Zealand Electricity Department who are interested in the practicalities of nuclear power generation will be the advisers to the Minister of Electricity when he asks for advice on nuclear power.
One suspects strongly the black threat of bureaucracy squeezing out public participation. This treat must not go unchallenged in relation to nuclear power or for that matter any other national issue affecting the people of New Zealand.