John Boscawen

The ACT Party will be supporting the Electoral Referendum Bill. However, once again we have major reservations about placing a limit of $300,000 on what a third party or a group of individuals can spend to promote one of the four alternatives. I would like to go back and listen again very carefully to the …

The ACT Party will be supporting the Electoral Referendum Bill, which we understand will go through unanimously in the House later this afternoon, but we do so with some reservations. Once again we have a problem with the fact that people who want to be involved in the election are being limited to spending $300,000. …

Part One:
I will respond to the comments of Lianne Dalziel and Metiria Turei, but before I do so, I will place something on record. The Hon Lianne Dalziel keeps asking why we are discussing these bills individually and not as a group of three. Let me advise her and the rest of the Committee that …