One bill to be drawn:-
1. Anderton, Hon Jim – Electoral (Disqualification of Sitting Members in By-Elections) Amendment Bill
2. Blue, Dr Jackie – Consumer Guarantees Amendment Bill
3. Boscawen, John – Climate Change Response (Cancellation of Emissions Trading Scheme) Amendment Bill
4. Choudhary, Dr Ashraf – Code of Airline Consumer Rights Bill
5. Clendon, David – Resource Management (Restricted Duration of Certain Discharge and Coastal Permits) Amendment Bill
6. Cosgrove, Hon Clayton – Christchurch International Airport Protection Bill
7. Delahunty, Catherine – Human Rights (Disability Commissioner) Amendment Bill
8. Douglas, Hon Sir Roger – Tariff Act Repeal Bill
9. Fenton, Darien – Employment Relations (Triangular Employment) Amendment Bill
10. Fitzsimons, Jeanette – Smart Meters (Consumer Choice) Bill
11. Flavell, Te Ururoa – Education (K?hanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa M?ori, and Early Childhood Standards) Amendment Bill
12. Garrett, David – Victims’ Rights (Victim Impact Statements) Amendment Bill
13. Gilmore, Aaron – Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance (Break Fees Disclosure) Amendment Bill
14. Graham, Dr Kennedy – Climate Change (New Zealand Superannuation Fund) Bill
15. Hague, Kevin – Fisheries (Precautionary Approach) Amendment Bill
16. Harawira, Hone – Electoral (Entrenchment of M?ori Representation) Amendment Bill
17. Henare, Hon Tau – Employment Relations (Workers’ Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill
18. Hipkins, Chris – Electricity (Renewable Preference) Amendment Bill
19. Katene, Rahui – Goods and Services Tax (Exemption of Healthy Food) Amendment Bill
20. Kedgley, Sue – Consumer’s Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Bill
21. King, Colin – Forests (Milling and Exporting Indigenous Wood Chips for Food Smoking) Amendment Bill
22. Lees-Galloway, Iain – Smoke-free Environments (Removing Tobacco Displays) Amendment Bill
23. Locke, Keith – Animal Welfare Amendment Bill
24. Mallard, Hon Trevor – Minimum Wage Amendment Bill
25. Moroney, Sue – Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months Paid Leave) Amendment Bill
26. Norman, Dr Russel – Local Electoral Amendment Bill
27. Pillay, Lynne – Employment Relations (Protection of Young Workers) Bill
28. Quinn, Paul – Electoral (Disqualification of Convicted Prisoners) Amendment Bill
29. Ririnui, Hon Mita – Electoral (Entrenchment of M?ori Representation) Amendment Bill
30. Robertson, HV Ross – Members of Parliament (Code of Ethical Conduct) Bill
31. Sepuloni, Carmel – Employment Relations (Probationary Period Repeal) Amendment Bill
32. Turei, Metiria – Crown Minerals (Protection of Public Conservation Land Listed in the Fourth Schedule) Amendment Bill
33. Twyford, Phil – Depleted Uranium (Prohibition) Bill
34. Upston, Louise – Education (Children of Board Members and Former Pupils) Amendment Bill
35. Wagner, Nicky – Family Proceedings (Paternity Orders and Parentage Tests) Amendment Bill
36. Woodhouse, Michael – New Zealand Public Health and Disability (Change of Electoral System for District Health Boards) Amendment Bill
Two bills for entrenchment of the maori seats means a wasteful pre-ballot. Surely Hone and Ririnui could have talked to one another to advance their clearly shared goal?
And good to see Labour doing both the minimum wage and 90-day repeal.
My interpretation, I/S, is that Hone and Ririnui have just bought two tickets in the same draw, being happy to share the prize if either wins…
that is not the case George. There being two bills that are substatially the same, there will be a preballot, and only one will go onto the main ballot.
Results will be known in a little over 12 minutes
Electoral (Disqualification of Convicted Prisoners) Amendment Bill (Paul Quinn)
Oh damn. Wonder if there’ll be a BORA report on it?
Two bills for entrenchment of the maori seats means a wasteful pre-ballot. Surely Hone and Ririnui could have talked to one another to advance their clearly shared goal?
I’m going to suggest there’s a different purpose. For Hone, this isn’t about getting the bill drawn – it’s about letting everyone see he put it in the ballot. Let’s not forget the following from the “Relationship and Confidence and Supply Agreement between the National Party and the Maori Party”:
Someone’s sending a message to someone. But is it Hone sending a message to the Maori Party? Or the Maori Party sending a message to National?
Probably. Our vetters usually take note of decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, and given its ruling in Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer), I can’t see them not having concerns to bring to the attention of the House.
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauvé_v._Canada_(Chief_Electoral_Officer)
@PL – thanks for that. Good rule. I suppose it stops the equivalent of parliarmentary lottery syndicates being formed!
For Hone, this isn’t about getting the bill drawn – it’s about letting everyone see he put it in the ballot
Point. And with Labour wanting to make the same point, we’re probably going to see more clashes.
George: it has ups and downs, and there’s been a recent proposal to change it…
And Hone says he entered the bill by mistake…
That was a quick result. A fraction over two hours between Graeme Edgeler raising the question, and Stuff posting the news that Turia was unaware of the bill and then that Harawira said it had been entered ‘by mistake’.
I know nothing about the way things work in a practical sense at the Beehive, but I’d be really interested if anyone who has first hand experience has a view on how it was possible to put a bill into the members’ ballot by mistake.
Sounds bizarre to a layman.
I doubt I can take the credit. Anyone in the gallery who read the kiwiblog thread (which included the Clerk’s note that there’d be a pre-ballot involving Harawira’s bill) should have been on notice – the agreement on the Maori seats between the Maori Party and National was a big point of interest in the negotiations between them.
Graeme, you are too modest. Trevor published the list of bills well before kiwiblog, and the first relevant comment over there was quarter of an hour after Stuff had reported the ‘mistake’. You were well ahead of the pack.
George, yes, truly bizarre. I can only imagine the mortifications and recriminations had the bill actually been sucessfully drawn from the ballot and introduced into the House.
The right to vote is utterly personal. It is mine and mine alone. It should be extinguished only by death or mental incompetence. I imagine ACT will embrace it and the Maori Party will be given another chance to show how ‘real’ they’re keeping it…
@Dominic – agreed. I mean the punishment for crimes is prison, voting shouldn’t come into it.
Yay for 6, 20, 25 and 33 – I hope they get drawn some day soon
24 and 32 are my favourites.
I’m curious about number 9 and 36 looks kinda creepy.
This is going to be a nice big fresh fat piece of raw meat to throw out to the rednecks.
Dominic – I would note that mental incompetence does not preclude one from voting in New Zealand.
I assumed it did. Does that mean I can vote even if, for example, I’m too senile to even feed myself?
I do understand the logic of capping prisoners’ voting rights at three years, the longer they’re in the more they lose touch, but I still believe that we’re only further disenfranchising prisoners if we disenfranchise them.
I also have to wonder, why this issue, why now? It feels like a sideshow type of Bill, put into the system to provide some helpful distraction for the big issues.
@Graeme LOL
Or I imagine running for parliament. 
@Dominic – Agreed.
If this bill passes, I won’t feel that I live in a democracy anymore!
At least those prisioners know when they’ll be getting out