Justice Minister Amy Adams claims she has no plan to "charge off in a different direction" to her predecessor Judith Collins.
Yet her first act in her new portfolio was to resume work on sexual violence reforms which were permanently shelved by Ms Collins.
The Law Commission's work on specialist courts for sexual abuse victims was one of a number of initiatives scrapped by Ms Collins after being introduced by her more liberal forerunner Simon Power.
Ms Adams said her urgent resuscitation of the reforms was not a sign that she would overhaul the portfolio again and revisit more of Mr Power's ideas.
"We'll each have slightly different ideas and angles and priorities ... but in terms of the broad direction of travel, you're not going to see a sudden reversal," she told the Herald.
