"If people use common sense to interpret the Electoral Finance Bill there won't be any problems..." "Why can't people use common sense to draft it?" "The member is trifling with the House now, Madame Speaker..." "Yes, I must ask the Deputy Leader of the opposition to desist..." 24 November, 2007

"If people use common sense to interpret the Electoral Finance Bill there won't be any problems..." "Why can't people use common sense to draft it?" "The member is trifling with the House now, Madame Speaker..." "Yes, I must ask the Deputy Leader of the opposition to desist..." 24 November, 2007
Date
2007
Reference
DCDL-0004470
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Shows Annette King, Minister of Justice having an altercation in the House with Deputy Leader of the opposition, Bill English about the Electoral Finance Bill. She says that people should use common sense to interpret it and he wonders why common sense couldn't have been used to write it. Speaker of House, Margaret Wilson judges that Bill English should desist. Refers to the belief that the way in which the Electoral Finance Bill is being altered by Labour will reduce freedom of speech.

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Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]
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"If people use common sense to interpret the Electoral Finance Bill there won't be any problems..." "Why can't people use common sense to draft it?" "The member is trifling with the House now, Madame Speaker..." "Yes, I must ask the Deputy Leader of the opposition to desist..." 24 November, 2007. Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]. Ref: DCDL-0004470. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23087076

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