August 22, 2007 11:21am by David Farrar

NZ Law Journal on Electoral Finance Bill

To see the NZ Law Journal editorial on the EFB, and also a review of electoral law publications by Richard Prebble, click on the link below:

I hope the NZLJ doesn’t object to me showing the articles to a wider audience.

The conclusion of the editorial is worth repeating:

It is possible that some of the more bizarre provisions are there to be negotiated away so that parties in the House will feel they have achieved something and vote for the amended Bill. That should not happen. This Bill is fundamentally obnoxious and should be scrapped.

The only person left defending the Bill is Winston Peters. That should tell us a lot about why it must be defeated.