Scoop Full Coverage: Election Finance Bill

Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 10:01 am
Article: Scoop Full Coverage

No Right Turn - Election Funding Bill

The Justice and Electoral committee has finally reported back on the Electoral Finance Bill, and recommended that it be passed. However, the bill has been substantially amended, and generally in a positive way. The two most important changes - and the ones that completely take the ground out from under those arguing against the bill - are the removal of the "taking a position" clause from the definition of electoral advertising, and the removal of the onerous statutory declaration system for third parties. More >>

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• National Party - Another coat of whitewash applied to election bill
• Family Party - Electoral Finance Bill, A Blatant Jack-up
• PSA - PSA Pleased With Changes to Electoral Finance Bill
• Libertarianz - Libz "Staggered" At Worse Electoral Finance Bill
• EPMU - Electoral Finance Bill will bring better democracy
• NoMoreRates.Com - Elecoral Finance Bill Still A Threat To Democracy
• UnitedFuture will support revised EFB
• ACT - EFB's Abhorrent Principles Untouched
• Greens - victory on free speech & fairer elections
• National - Democracy still at risk in control freak bill
• NZ Govt - Select committee process improves legislation
• Human Rights Commission - Statement on the Electoral Finance Bill
• Coalition for Open Government - Coalition welcomes revised Electoral Finance Bill
• David Farrar - Electoral Finance Bill Now Worse
• Institute of Chartered Accountants - ICA: Dump the Electoral Finance Bill
• Greenpeace - Greenpeace response to Election Finance Bill
• David Thornton - Electoral Bill is a direct attack on lobby groups
• EPMU - Electoral Finance Bill will bring better democracy
• Electoral Finance Bill, A Blatant Jack-up
• PSA Pleased With Changes to Electoral Finance Bill
• Libz "Staggered" At Worse Electoral Finance Bill

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