Media
Note: August/September 2007. At the moment we are not updating this page, for latest news and views on the Bill, you can catch some of it on the google-news site here.
Sunday Star-Times: Nicky Hager: Donor cash stays in the shadows. MATTHEW HOOTON: Justice minister is a danger to democracy
NZPA: Rough ride ahead for election spending bill and Bill’s net may have been cast too wide - Clark
Herald: New rules on election spending revealed and Government retreat on banning large anonymous political donations sparks anger and Editorial: Secrecy out of place in campaigns and Bill will ‘tie up’ child help group and National’s campaign targets electoral bill and Electoral bill no one wants and John Armstrong: English strategy a win-win and Editorial: Advocacy free speech threatened and Election money bill goes too far - PM
DomPost: $60,000 limit for political interest groups and National’s deputy leader says rules help out Labour and Vernon Small: Electoral finance bill a loud-sounding nothing and Editorial: Funding reform is draconian
The Press: Colin Espiner blog: Funding from the many, for the few and Election bill biased and A bill set up to fail and PM suggests change to election finance bill and Colin Espiner blog: second thoughts on campaign finance bill
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace & Russell Norman on Election Financing
RadioNZ: Electoral reform lobby group appalled secret trusts left out of electoral bill and Anonymous donations to political parties won’t be stopped by new bill - Greens and Business groups says crackdown on election financing could undermine lobbying and Labour has misjudged electoral finance issue - National and National continues attack over Govt bill capping election spending
Radio NZ Audio: Minister Burton on Checkpoint; Morning Report piece and Election Spending Bill and
Newsroom: Concessions Likely For Small Parties In Election Spending Reforms and Govt Proposal On Election Spending and Changes To Electoral Campaigns Confirmed and Diluted Campaign Spending Law Introduced and Electoral Reform Lobby Group Unhappy and Lobby Groups Unhappy With Electoral Finance Bill and Prime Minister Comments On Election Finance Bill and Public To Have Say On Electoral Finance Reform and Clark Defends Rationale For Campaign Limits
Radio Live: Clark: Election spending bill may need changing
Newstalk ZB: Clark pushes Electoral Finance Bill and Helen Clark with Paul Holmes 13.8.07 (mp3)
Individuals, Organisations & Blogs
Andrew Geddis: Bill does not stop secret funding of political parties
KiwiBlog: Shutting down dissent and Anonymous and trust donations remain legal and Help us pick a name and Period of “regulated speech” and An example of the proposed Act and Sheer hypocrisy and 1st reading at 3 pm and Electoral Finance Bill passes first reading and Herald on Electoral Finance Bill and Let the cartoons begin … and Bid on the 2008 General Election
No Right Turn blog: A closer look: the Electoral Finance Bill and Election funding: the rhetoric and the reality and On The Wire and Why they gutted it and Electoral Finance Bill passes its first reading and Election funding and the Bill of Rights Act and Submit! and Election funding: fixing the bill and Election for sale
FrogBlog: COG submission guide and Electoral Finance Bill goes to all party committee and Canada’s political finance laws even more stringent
Kyoto Forestry Association: Election-Year Spending Limit Worse Than Expected
Public Address: GUEST: COG’s Graeme Edgeler on everything else about the Electoral Finance Bill
Parties, Parliament
Govt: Electoral finance changes announced
National: Labour screws electoral scrum and $1.2 million spent advertising KiwiSaver in June and Labour wants its critics on a register and Electoral law reform vague and confusing and PM is responsible for electoral drift net
Greens: Elections should be about policy not money and Election campaigns: corporates versus cake stalls and Greens widen parliament’s scrutiny of election financing
Maori Party: Sharples - Electoral Finance Bill
Minister: Press conference video (or press conference audio); Minister’s YouTube post
Parliamentary Questions: 24.7.07 Question 7 and Question 8; and 7.8.07 Question 5; and 8.8.07 Question 8; and 9.8.07 Question 5; and 14.8.07 Question 2 and Question 4.
