They invaded your home. On 16 May 2007, Labour’s Anti-Smacking bill was passed into law. Sue Bradford (Green MP) had introduced the bill, but it was Labour who ensured that it was successful. National voted for the bill at its final reading upon an agreement that inconsequential cases would not be prosecuted. This made a terrible law slightly better. At the time that the law came into action, an average taken of 14 separate polls across...

The Electoral Finance Act does four major things: It expands the regulated speech period for an election from 90 days to all of election year. It dramatically expands the definition of what is an election advertisement so that it includes protest placards, e-mails, posts to Internet newsgroups and forums (only non-commercial blogs and news media sites are exempted). It places limits on public advocacy for or against parties, candidates or types...