You know National really have their finger on the pulse with their latest members bills.
First was Nuk Korako showing why he’s 50 on the list with a bill that seems to not actually affect anything. There don’t seem to be any Airports that have local Councils force them to advertise their lost luggage auctions in newspapers, but if there are, they will no doubt be looking forward to the vast savings of possibly as much as dozens of dollars each year by being allowed to advertise just on the internet. The thousands of dollars of Parliamentary time spent on the bill notwithstanding obviously.
But to follow that up now Matthew Doocey is using more valuable Parliamentary time on a bill to allow companies to be able to email instead of snail mail notice of their annual report to shareholders.
Parliament has regular omnibus bills to allow these non-controversial updates to law as society changes to pass quickly an efficiently. But rather than use those, National is very effectively show how much it is padding for time in its third term. Nothing useful to contribute, but heavily determined to make sure that Labour and the Greens can’t propose useful legislation to the House to deal with the Housing Crisis, or Child Poverty, or our polluted water…
I guess Cabinet must be too busy trying to work out spinning 29% foreign housing sales as 3% to have time to make sure the National caucus has something sensible to do…
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