James Shaw does 12 questions in the Herald:
8. Who do you like in National?
Todd Muller. He’s a former Fonterra executive now at the bottom of the ladder as a backbench MP. There have been a few times when we’ve looked at each other across the aisle and just gone, wide-eyed, “What is going on here?” We share the idea that we’re here to get something done and we ought to be talking to each other. Todd has a great deal of integrity, thoughtfulness and openness.
I agree with James.
The Herald reports:
A mother who refused a blood test after police suspected she was driving drunk while dropping her child at school has pleaded guilty to refusing to give a blood sample and dangerous driving.
Beverly Hale also pleaded guilty two mistreatment charges which relate to her children not wearing seatbelts at the time of the offending.
Drink driving with kids in the car, and not wearing seatbelts. This must come close to reckless endangerment.
Hale was seen driving erratically along Wall Rd at 9am on May 6.
A concerned driver followed the woman to Hastings Central School, where Hale struck a parked car while trying to do a U-turn.
She had just dropped off her child at the school gate when police arrived.
Her other child, who was preschool-aged, was still in the back seat of the car and wasn’t restrained.
She was taken to Hastings Police Station, where she was processed for drink-driving and refused to have a blood sample taken.
I suspect the kids would be better off with a parent who doesn’t drive them drunk to school.
The Herald reports:
The Corrections Department has confirmed plans to take over Serco’s management of Mt Eden Correctional Facility.
Corrections Minister Sam Lotu Iiga said this afternoon that a management team would take over the day to day running of the prison from Monday “for the immediate future”.
Serco’s staff would remain on site, but a Corrections Department Prison Director and their team would oversee the prison. …
As part of Serco’s contract, Government has power to step in and manage the prison either on a temporary or permanent basis.
You wonder what has been discovered for the Government to take this step?
But this is the good with with accountable contracts. If a provider fails to meet standards, then they can be held accountable – either fined, overseen, or ultimately replaced.
Serco has to pay for the cost of the staff stepping in.
The Herald (print) did their annual ratings of Ministers on a 0 to 10 scale.
These things are always subjective, but I have to say that this year I find some of them exceptionally wacky. The Herald has Bill English as the third worse performing Minister. That is just off the planet.
But here they are for what it is worth:
The average rating is 7.15.
The Herald reports:
Labour leader Andrew Little has indicated Labour will come up with its own version of trial period for new workers by merging aspects of the 90-day trial and a separate probationary period.
Mr Little caused confusion about his stance on the 90-day trial periods last week after he said Labour was looking at making changes rather than scrapping them altogether.
That was to a business conference.
Mr Little’s initial statement about the 90 day trials prompted unions to call for a ‘please explain.’ There was further confusion after a Labour Party member on the party’s Te Kaunihera Maori group tweeted that Mr Little had assured him Labour still planned to repeal it. Mr Little later told the Herald he had not said that but had discussed Labour’s intention to review it with the group.
And then says something quite different to a Labour group.
The Telegraph reports:
Left-winger Jeremy Corbyn is on track to top the ballot in the Labourleadership contest, according to a poll.
Research by YouGov for The Times has found the backbench MP is the first preference for 43 per cent of party supporters – way ahead of bookies’ favourite Andy Burnham on 26 per cent.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper was on 20 per cent and Liz Kendall just 11 per cent.
The wisdom of having the members elect the leader!
This will replace Michael Foot’s manifesto as the longest suicide note in history.
The problem UK Labour has is that it has lost so many members, that those remaining are hard core activists who are in no way representative of the actual people who vote Labour.
NBR reports:
Auckland Council has revealed how many of its rates bills are sent overseas.
Of the 535,057 rates bills sent out, 5617 or 1.05% are sent overseas – 2885 to Australia and 2732 to the rest of the world.
Yet Labour would have you believe 30% of houses are being purchased by foreign Chinese.
This is far more reliable data than Labour’s surname analysis.
It isn’t perfect. Some foreign owners may have someone locally pay the rates for them. But likewise many of those foreign addresses may be NZ citizens who are working overseas. But it gives us some idea of the likely magnitude of foreign ownership.
There is now a national broadband map for NZ. You can enter in an address and see what the availability is of fibre, VDSL, ADSL and wireless.
The map has been produced by NZRS (who also run the .nz domain name registry), a company owned by InternetNZ with assistance from MBIE and of course the retail providers.
For example if you put in 175 Melbourne Road, Island Bay, Wellington it tells you:
A great resource that has already proven massively popular with 60,000 visits within hours of launching.
Stuff reports:
Leader Andrew Little said his party supported free trade but would not back the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) unless the five “non-negotiable bottom lines” were met.
They are:
* Drug buying agency Pharmac must be protected.
* Corporations cannot successfully sue the Government for regulating in the public interest.
* New Zealand maintains the right to restrict sales of farm land and housing to non-resident foreigner buyers.
* The Treaty of Waitangi must be upheld.
* Meaningful gains are made for farmers in tariff reductions and market access.
These are not unreasonable bottom lines. It is good to see Labour have not abandoned their previous support for free trade.
The issue may be that some of them can not be defined with 100% certainity – you can never know the outcome of a lawsuit. But I note the following:
Labour believes the conditions reflect protections in the 2008 free trade agreement it negotiated with China.
That FTA has investor state dispute settlement provisions, so if the TPP has the same, then that should not be a reason for Labour to oppose it.
I’d add a sixth condition on – that NZ does not have to make changes to out intellectual property laws in a way which would harm the Internet in NZ.
Stuff reports:
Corrections Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga probably thought he was having a bad day on Wednesday. But things keep getting worse.
The minister has been thrown under a train by his department after it confirmed serious incidents at Mt Eden prison that, if not entirely proving allegations by Labour MP Kelvin Davis about a cover-up over the death of another prisoner, point to exactly the sort of standover tactics and violence that he claims to be rife at the privately-run prison.
Those allegations include an inmate being chased off a landing before being assaulted by another inmate and hospitalised with leg and ankle fractures.
It’s hard to know what is truth, and what isn’t. Some of the allegations are false (such as being thrown off a balcony) while some such as the fight club are proven. Because it is a private prison, it has political enemies who are determined to do everything possible to undermine it.
The nature of prisons which house the most violent and recidivist offenders in society means that there will always be some violent incidents between prisoners. Unless you keep every prisoner in solitary 24/7.
The Mount Eden Corrections Facility has been ranked the top performing prison of the 17 prisons in NZ.
They are contracted to ensure assault are below a certain level (0.9 per 100 prisoners) or they get fined and eventually could lose the contract.
As far as I can see the Government hasn’t released data on what the assault rate is at Mt Eden, and how it compares to the other 16 prisons. This would be useful to allow us to judge if there is an issue at Mt Eden.
Now the assault rate is only one measure. As I said some assaults are unavoidable. The key thing is are staff acting to stop them as soon as possible, and take preventative measures when they know of a high risk. The fight club videos suggest they have not, and there needs to be real scrutiny of what has happened there (and it is being investigated).
The other allegations are not yet substantiated. They also need to be investigated, but I’d be cautious about assuming every allegation is correct.
The Government’s political response hasn’t been adequate. It should have out there the data on comparative assault rates in prisons. It shouldn’t be last to hear about these allegations.
The BSA has ruled against Campbell Live in relation to a complaint from the Insurance Council, and unusually has ordered a summary of the decision be broadcast at the end of the 6 pm news.
There were two aspects where the BSA found Campbell Live were in the wrong.
In terms of the balance issue they found:
At no point did MediaWorks present an adequately balancing viewpoint to counter the overarching message of the programme, which was that the insurance industry was ‘substandard’, ‘lamentable’ and generally failing the people of Canterbury. Nor was anything presented to counter the negative portrayal of the general insurance landscape, the quality of repairs carried out or the scope and context of unsettled claims. The only positive reference to the insurance industry was a brief mention that some smaller insurance companies had implemented improved processes – although this comment was made by an advocate for homeowners, not an insurance industry spokesperson.
I think the more important issue is that they were misleading over the Insurance Council being willing to front. The background:
A stage was set with empty chairs holding pictures of Tim Grafton, the Chief Executive of ICNZ, the Chief Executive of EQC and the Minister responsible for EQC and the Canterbury earthquake recovery. Mr Campbell said that all three individuals had been asked to attend but that ‘they are not fronting’. He stated that Mr Grafton ‘declined at the last minute’ and said that it was ‘unbelievable’ that none of them were able to attend. Mr Campbell then approached audience members at random to hear their stories. All of the stories were negative about private insurers, EQC or both.
This was a meeting called specifically for people to complain about their insurers, so it is no surprise that all the stories were negative. But the issue is they said:
Mr Grafton ‘declined at the last minute’
This was false.
A key aspect of MediaWorks’ position is that reasonable efforts were made to provide balance by inviting ICNZ onto the programme – an invitation that it says was declined. It is apparent from the information provided to us that there was a considerable number of emails and phone calls between ICNZ and the programme producer before the date of broadcast, which essentially resulted in a stalemate. From 20 August 2014 up until the broadcast date on 4 September, a Campbell Live producer repeatedly invited ICNZ’s chief executive Tim Grafton to participate in the live broadcast at Shirley Boys High School, and ICNZ repeatedly indicated that Mr Grafton would happily participate in a live interview with John Campbell, but not in front of a live audience or in the proposed location and format. For example, ICNZ said in its correspondence:
- Tim Grafton ‘won’t be available for an interview in front of a live audience… [but he is] very happy to have a live one-on-one interview with John Campbell but no audience.’ (25 August)
- Mr Grafton was ‘not declining [the] invitation to be interviewed to discuss progress but not in front of an audience’. (30 August)
- Mr Grafton ‘remains available to respond positively to your request for an interview but not in the setting [proposed]’. (31 August)
- Mr Grafton was available to do a live interview – and had arranged travel and accommodation in Christchurch accordingly – ‘but not in the proposed setting’. (1 September)
[19] Following that correspondence the producer maintained that ‘we need to do all the interviews inside the hall at Shirley Boys High School on Thursday night because that’s where John Campbell will be. Technically, it won’t work to do an interview in another location’. ICNZ asked further questions about the rundown of the event at the school and whether it would cover unresolved claims against EQC or against insurers. The day before the broadcast (3 September), ICNZ indicated that Mr Grafton ‘could also accommodate a pre-recorded interview away from the venue if that worked for [the producer]’.
[20] It was understandable that ICNZ elected to decline the invitation to appear at the school in front of hundreds of dissatisfied homeowners. It was made very clear that Mr Grafton was willing to participate or comment in another way.
Campbell Live refused to do a pre-record or a one on one interview with Grafton. They wanted it to be a spectacle with a hall of angry homeowners howling the insurance rep down. It certainly would made for good viewing, but not for balanced journalism.
Radio NZ reports:
A teachers union is dropping its opposition to the Government’s $155 million a year plan to pay teachers more to improve schools after negotiating changes to the scheme.
Yep they were campaigning against a policy to pay their members more money!!
The deal agreed with the Education Ministry opens the way for more schools to join a revised version of the programme known as Investing in Educational Success.
The Educational Institute (NZEI) said the changes include allowing early childhood services to join the scheme, which was originally just for schools.
In addition, the number of new roles for teachers and principals to lead improvements in each group of schools will be based on schools’ needs, rather than on a formula.
The NZEI has been fiercely critical of the Government’s scheme, especially its extra pay for some teachers and principals, and wanted to negotiate an alternative.
Today it said there would be one scheme, with changes.
Education Minister Hekia Parata said the agreement followed one by the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) last year.
She said, under the agreement, the communities of schools set up by the scheme would become communities of learning that could include the pathway from early childhood to tertiary education.
The changes from the current scheme seem pretty minor – really it is about the NZEI saving face as they basically let their hatred of National get in the way of supporting good policy. But good to see that they have finally shown sense, and have come on board.
538 report:
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 280,000 — that’s the number of requests individuals in Europe have made to Google so far asking the company to remove certain web pages from its search results.
The number of requests has been consistently climbing since May 2014, when the European Court of Justice ruled that an Internet search engine has to consider such requests from a person about search results related to that person’s name.
This just degrades the usefulness of search engines, if 280,000 people can get information on them suppressed in the results.
In my view it was a terrible ruling by the European Court of Justice, and I hope we never get anything like that here.
Interesting to contrast two stories on the parliamentary rugby team travelling to England to defend the parliamentary world cup title they hold.
The Herald story:
MPs will be jetting to the United Kingdom to take part in the Parliamentary Rugby World Cup after being granted special leave.
The team will take part in a tournament from September 10 to 23 – dates which overlap with the start of the real tournament.
Politicians going include Corrections Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga – who is currently under pressure over the issue of alleged violence in prisons – and New Zealand First MP Winston Peters, who turned 70 this year.
New Zealand are four times champions in the tournament, which happens prior to each Rugby World Cup.
It is understood the upcoming trip is funded through sponsorship. Players will also be dipping into their own pockets – when asked how the trip was funded, Mr O’Connor said: “my bank account”.
Pretty factual and not sensational. And I’m all in favour of MPs keeping fit by playing sport, and even better beating the Aussies and English. I don’t see this as any different to any other employer giving people time off for an international sporting fixture.
And the Stuff story:
Nine MPs – including two ministers – are taking leave from Parliament to travel to England for the Rugby World Cup.
Corrections minister Sam Lotu-Iiga, his Cabinet colleague Commerce minister Paul Goldsmith and NZ First leader Winston Peters are among those who will skip parliamentary sessions in lieu of the September junket.
So the first two paragraphs make it look like they are merely going to England to watch rugby rather than play rugby – a huge difference.
They’ll play in the Parliamentary Rugby World Cup which runs alongside the tournament.
Also on the team are Labour’s Damian O’Connor, Stuart Nash, Peeni Henare and Kelvin Davis, and National’s Alfred Ngaro and Mark Mitchell.
Parliament’s business committee gave leave for the absence from September 10 – 23, which means the MPs will be in England for the opening, but will miss the October 31st final.
Later on it mentions they are actually playing rugby. Also as one can see they are there for very little of the actual Rugby World Cup. The first game is on 18 September so they are there for only eight out of 40 pool games and none of the eight knock out games.
Now you can have views on whether the MPs should get time off to defend the world title – that’s fine. But making it look like they are primarily going to watch the RWC is unfair, when in fact they are there for just a small fraction of the RWC.
News.com.au reports:
OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten has confirmed Labor will go into the next election promising to turn back asylum-seeker boats.
Mr Shorten admitted Labor had got it wrong on asylum-seeker policies when it was in government, acknowledging the large number of deaths at sea
He told ABC’s 7.30 program Labor was now determined to put people smugglers “out of business,” agreeing the Coalition’s policy of towing boats back to where they came from worked.
The evidence is indisputable.
Here’s the deaths at sea from asylum seekers by year:
The zero deaths in 2014 and 2015 are not a coincidence. The turn back the boats policy has almost totally discouraged people smugglers from attempting the crossing. It has not just led to no one dying at sea, but also reduced dramatically the numbers in off shore camps.
The total population in immigration detention centres has fallen from around 13,000 to just over 3,000.
As at 30 June 2015, there were 1,600 in the Nauru and Manus processing centres. A year ago there were 2,358 so almost a reduction by a third.
But Mr Shorten looks headed for one almighty fight with his party’s Left faction, which is opposed the policy and is expected to try to vote it down at Labor’s national conference this weekend.
“It’s not easy though, because it involves the admission, I think, that mistakes were made when Labor was last in government,” he said.
“For myself, if I want to be the leader of this nation, I have got to be able to face the truth, and the truth for me is that we have policies in place which give substance and support to people smugglers to exploit vulnerable people, where they put these vulnerable people on unsafe boats then people drown at sea. I can’t support any policies that do that.”
An excellent call. Why would you reject a policy that has reduced the drowning toll 100% and the numbers in offshore detention facility by a third?
The order paper is here.
Oral Questions 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm
National: Five questions on the economy, high tech start ups, regional educational, supporting people off benefits and the NZ cycle trail
Labour: Four questions on public health workforce, economic growth, Auckland housing and Mt Eden Prison
Greens: Two questions on Mt Eden Prison and climate change
NZ First: One question on Anne Tolley standing by her statements
Government Bills 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm
Social Security (Extension of Young Persons Services and Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill – first reading
The Bill amends the Social Security Act 1964 to extend the existing Youth Service to all 19-year-old beneficiaries with children, and 18- and 19-year-old beneficiaries without children who are considered at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency.
The first reading consist of 12 speeches of up to 10 minutes each, for a maximum debate of two hours.
Health Practitioners (Replacement of Statutory References to Medical Practitioners) Bill – first reading
The Bill is an omnibus Bill amending 7 statutes to increase the range of functions that can be performed by health practitioners under those statutes by changing certain references to medical practitioners to references to health practitioners.
The first reading consist of 12 speeches of up to 10 minutes each, for a maximum debate of two hours.
The four bills drawn are all from Labour MPs. They are:
This bill extends paid parental leave to 26 weeks and adds provisions around work contact hours, where working parents are entitled to the flexibility of returning to work for a certain amount of time during the parental leave period without losing their entitlement to paid parental leave.
Note that the Government has already increased the duration of leave from 14 weeks to 18 weeks. This bill is unlikely to progress unless United Future support it.
Education (Charter Schools Curriculum) Amendment Bill
This Bill would requiring partnership schools kura hourua (“charter schools”) to teach the NZ curriculum.
This undermines the whole idea of charter schools having flexibility (like private schools) and is unlikely to be supported.
Social Workers Registration (Mandatory Registration) Amendment Bill
This Bill implements recommendations made to the Minister for Social Development by the Social Workers Registration Board to provide for the current voluntary system of registration for practising social workers to become a mandatory system.
I think this bill is worth supporting at least through first reading.
Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill
This Bill would ensure that information held by Parliamentary Under-Secretaries in their official capacity is official information, and subject to the Official Information Act 1982.
I support this bill and think it should be passed.
Stuff reports:
The Government has “rubber stamped” $6 billion worth of farm sales to overseas investors over the past three years, Labour claims.
Labour MP Phil Goff’s bill seeking to curb rural land sales to overseas buyers failed by just one vote in Parliament on Wednesday, sparking an angry debate and accusations of racism.
Speaking during debate on his Overseas Investment (Owning our Own Rural Land) Amendment Bill, Goff conceded the last Labour government allowed too much land to be sold to overseas buyers – “but to its credit it changed its policy four years ago”.
Opposing in opposition what you did in Government isn’t credit, more hypocrisy.
The bill sought to curb foreign investment in rural land by imposing a rule that it must deliver benefits over and above what a New Zealand investor could produce.
Goff accused National of rubber-stamping every one of the nearly 400 applications from overseas investors to buy New Zealand farmland over the past three years.
“It is clear that National has not followed up on public concern about the ease with which foreign investors can buy New Zealand farmland and ministers are just acting as a rubber stamp. The result is 140,000 hectares of our land, worth over $6 billion, has passed into overseas ownership in just three years.”
And how much was sold under Labour? Goff and his colleagues approved 1,431 applications for 650,00 hectares.
So the rate of land sales is one quarter what it was under Labour.
Incidentally the amount of land in NZ is 26,802,100 hectares. So the amount sold under National is 0.5%. Also note that in some of these cases it would be one foreign owner selling to another foreign owner.
USA Today reports:
An anti-gay political party in Kenya has vowed to greet President Obama when he visits later this week with 5,000 “totally naked” male and female protesters.
They aim to express dismay over Obama’s recent support for gay rights and impress upon him the difference between a man and a woman — a difference Obama will no doubt be able to absorb when not shielding his eyes.
And who will these 5,000 people be?
Where will they find 5,000 people willing to let it all hang out in the name of homophobia? According to Republican Liberty Party leader Kidaha Vincent, the party will be supplementing its numbers with volunteer sex workers. He claims the sex workers have agreed to work free of charge because they are afraid they will lose work if homosexuality is legalized.
Heh they’re like the taxi drivers protesting Uber – against cheaper competition.
Andrew Little yesterday demanded the Government stop the flag referendum saying there was no need for one.
Here’s Labour’s official policy from 2014:
Labour will: review the design of the New Zealand flag involving flag design experts and with full public consultation and involvement.
We believe that the time has come for a change and it is right for the issue to be put to the public.
And in case that isn’t clear enough, here’s his personal views from last October:
Q: Should NZ change its flag: What’s your personal opinion? Should there be a referendum? If you want the flag changed, what’s your favourite design?
A: Yes, my personal opinion is we should have something more relevant to an independent, small Asia/Pacific nation. I think a referendum is a suitable way to deal with an issue that can be very polarising. I don’t like the idea of the silver fern on a black background. The elements I would like to see in a flag are the Southern Cross, blue for the sea, green for the land and mountains, and a reference to our Maori heritage.
So Little’s demand yesterday to scrap the referendum is pure hypocrisy. He’s now against it, because the PM proposed it.
The Herald reports:
A British comedian disrupted a news conference by Sepp Blatter overnight, showering the FIFA president with fake money.
As Blatter took his seat, performer Simon Brodkin rose from a front-row seat to confront him.
“This is for North Korea 2026,” Brodkin said as he put the bills on the desk in front of Blatter. “Thank you very much. As a North Korean football ambassador, I’m delighted that I’ve been able to seal the deal with FIFA and North Korea for the 2026 World Cup. It makes sense for everyone.”
Brodkin then tossed the notes into the air as security led him away.
“Here we go Sepp,” he said. “Thank you. Cheers Sepp. It’s all there, as discussed. Thank you. Good doing business.”
Classic. It’s funny because it is so close to the truth.
With four members’ bills yesterday completing their first readings, that means another four get drawn from the ballot today. Those in the ballot as of late last night are:
| Bill Title | Member Name | |
| 1 | Accident Compensation (Recent Migrants and Returning New Zealanders) Amendment Bill | Melissa Lee |
| 2 | Affordable Healthcare Bill | Barbara Stewart |
| 3 | Age of Majority (Attainment at 18 Years) Amendment Bill | Brett Hudson |
| 4 | Better Public Service Target Results Independent Audit Bill | Tracey Martin |
| 5 | Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration (Preventing Name Change by Child Sex Offenders) Amendment Bill | Dr Jian Yang |
| 6 | Buy New Zealand (Procurement) Bill | Richard Prosser |
| 7 | Care of Children (Adoption and Surrogacy Law Reform) Amendment Bill | Kevin Hague |
| 8 | Charter Schools (Application of Official Information and Ombudsmen Acts) Bill | Hon Nanaia Mahuta |
| 9 | Child Poverty Reduction and Eradication Bill | Jacinda Ardern |
| 10 | Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Parent’s and Guardian’s Responsibility) Amendment Bill | Barbara Kuriger |
| 11 | Climate Change (Divestment from Fossil Fuels) Bill | Dr Russel Norman |
| 12 | Commerce (Supermarket Adjudicator and Code of Conduct) Amendment Bill | Mojo Mathers |
| 13 | Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance (Break Fees Disclosure) Amendment Bill | Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi |
| 14 | Crimes (Corporate Manslaughter) Amendment Bill | Hon Damien O’Connor |
| 15 | Crimes (Non-fatal Strangulation) Amendment Bill | Kelvin Davis |
| 16 | Criminal Procedure (Removing Paedophile Name Suppression) Amendment Bill | Pita Paraone |
| 17 | Crown Minerals (Protection of World Heritage Sites) Amendment Bill | Hon Ruth Dyson |
| 18 | Customs and Excise (Prohibition of Imports Made by Slave Labour) Amendment Bill | Peeni Henare |
| 19 | Domestic Violence—Victims’ Protection Bill | Jan Logie |
| 20 | Education (Charter Schools Abolition) Amendment Bill | Chris Hipkins |
| 21 | Education (Charter Schools Curriculum) Amendment Bill | Hon Phil Goff |
| 22 | Education (Charter Schools Teacher Quality) Amendment Bill | Louisa Wall |
| 23 | Education (Public Good not Profit from Charter Schools) Amendment Bill | Dr David Clark |
| 24 | Education (Restoration of Democracy to University Councils) Amendment Bill | Hon David Cunliffe |
| 25 | Electricity Industry (Energy Efficiency) Amendment Bill | Rino Tirikatene |
| 26 | Electricity Industry (Small-Scale Renewable Distributed Generation) Amendment Bill | Gareth Hughes |
| 27 | Electricity Transparency Bill | David Shearer |
| 28 | Employment Relations (Allowing Higher Earners to Contract Out of Personal Grievance Provisions) Amendment Bill | Scott Simpson |
| 29 | Employment Relations (Certainty at Work) Amendment Bill | Iain Lees-Galloway |
| 30 | Employment Relations (Restoring Kiwis’ Right to a Break at Work) Amendment Bill | Jenny Salesa |
| 31 | Energy Efficiency and Conservation (Warm Healthy Rentals Warrant of Fitness) Amendment Bill | Metiria Turei |
| 32 | Environment Canterbury (Democracy Restoration) Amendment Bill | Dr Megan Woods |
| 33 | Family Proceedings (Paternity Orders and Parentage Tests) Amendment Bill | Jacqui Dean |
| 34 | Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2) | Andrew Little |
| 35 | Immigration (Refugee Quota) Amendment Bill | Denise Roche |
| 36 | Independent Prison Inspectorate Bill | David Clendon |
| 37 | International Non-Aggression and Lawful Use of Force (Implementation of Amendment to Statute of Rome) Bill | Dr Kennedy Graham |
| 38 | Keep Kiwibank Bill | Hon Clayton Cosgrove |
| 39 | Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Establishment Bill | Eugenie Sage |
| 40 | Land Transfer (Foreign Ownership of Land Register) Amendment Bill | Mahesh Bindra |
| 41 | Land Transport (Vulnerable Road Users) Amendment Bill | Julie Anne Genter |
| 42 | Legislation (Climate Impact Disclosure Statement) Amendment Bill | James Shaw |
| 43 | Life Jackets for Children and Young Persons Bill | Alfred Ngaro |
| 44 | Local Government (Four Well-beings) Amendment Bill | Su’a William Sio |
| 45 | Local Government (Freedom of Access) Amendment Bill | Paul Foster-Bell |
| 46 | Marriage (Court Consent to Marriage of Minors) Amendment Bill | Joanne Hayes |
| 47 | Nurse Practitioners Bill | Hon Annette King |
| 48 | Oaths and Declarations (Endorsing the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi) Amendment Bill | Marama Fox |
| 49 | Oaths and Declarations (Members of Parliament) Amendment Bill | Meka Whaitiri |
| 50 | Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill | Adrian Rurawhe |
| 51 | Overseas Investment (Protection of New Zealand Homebuyers) Amendment Bill | Phil Twyford |
| 52 | Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave and Work Contact Hours) Amendment Bill | Sue Moroney |
| 53 | Private International Law (Choice of Law in Tort) Bill | David Bennett |
| 54 | Public Finance (Sustainable Development Indicators) Amendment Bill | Steffan Browning |
| 55 | Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment Bill | Catherine Delahunty |
| 56 | Radiocommunications (Enhanced Public Broadcasting Provision) Amendment Bill | Kris Faafoi |
| 57 | Receiverships (Agricultural Debt Mediation) Amendment Bill | Ron Mark |
| 58 | Sentencing (Domestic Violence) Amendment Bill | Poto Williams |
| 59 | Sentencing (Livestock Rustling) Amendment Bill | Ian McKelvie |
| 60 | Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Shopping Centre Opening Hours) Amendment Bill | Hon Trevor Mallard |
| 61 | Social Security (Apprenticeship Assistance for Youth) Amendment Bill | Grant Robertson |
| 62 | Social Security (Pathway to Work) Amendment Bill | Stuart Nash |
| 63 | Social Security (Stopping Benefit Payments for Offenders who Repeatedly Fail to Comply with Community Sentences) Amendment Bill | Mark Mitchell |
| 64 | Social Workers Registration (Mandatory Registration) Amendment Bill | Carmel Sepuloni |
| 65 | Summary Offences (Drink or Drugs Affecting Behaviour) Amendment Bill | Clayton Mitchell |
| 66 | Summary Proceedings (Warrant for Detention Conditions) Amendment Bill | Jonathan Young |
| 67 | Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Amendment Bill | Clare Curran |
| 68 | Vulnerable Children (Mandatory Social Worker Registration) Amendment Bill | Ria Bond |
| 69 | Waitemata Harbour Protection Bill | Rt Hon Winston Peters |
The bills by party (Ministers excluded) are:
If the other 20 National MPs got a bill in the ballot (or could get agreement of the hierarchy for their bills) then the chances of a non hostile bill being drawn would increase from 14/69 to 34/89 or from 20% to 38%.