Dunne’s Driving Age Bill introduced with leave

Peter Dunne has had the rare honour of Parliament granting leave (any one MP can object to stop this) for his bill on raising the driving age to 16 to be introduced.  This means it will have a first reading when the House resumes in October.

The NZPA story states 87% of people in a recent NZ Herald poll agreed with raising the driving age.   Now I can’t find a recent scientific Herald Digi-Poll poll on this issue, so can only presume they are referring to this survey in March on the Herald website.

Please please do not refer to website surveys as polls, leaving the impression they are scientific random sample polls.

A fascinating piece of wonkery about the bill, is that even though Peter Dunne is promoting the driving age bill in his role as an MP, the mere fact he is a Minister means that under Standing Order 254 it automatically becomes a Government bill.  So a bill which has not been approved by Cabinet is now on the order paper as a Government bill, and it will be in the name of the Minister of Revenue for a transport bill!