A bipartisan approach to The Parliament Bill

Parliament has established a special select committee to consider submissions on the constitutionally important Parliament Bill. It has eight MPs, being:

• National 2
• Labour 2
• Greens 1
• ACT 1
• NZ First 1
• TPM 1

So the committee is split 4/4 between the Government and Opposition and also 4/4 between the two large parties and the four smaller ones. It will be chaired by former Speaker Adrian Rurawhe.

The bill passed its first reading unanimously. It is nice to be in a country where important constitutional issues can be dealt with in a non partisan way.

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