The Dead Roo

While I’ve tried to keep an eye out for it, the Peace Commission and Non-Violence Act 2007 went through first reading a couple of weeks ago.  It doesn’t appear to have gone through the House, so I think it won’t be long before it’s referred to committee and there’s a call for public submissions.

Now it’s time to lay the guilt trip on you: if this bill doesn’t get through, and you didn’t even send an email in its support, who is to blame?

I hope that many of you will make submissions in support of this bill, to give it a chance of getting through.  I haven’t gone through the latest version in detail yet (PDF Version and HTML version), but the one I saw a month ago certainly deserved support.  I posted a preliminary review of it here and here.

Given the short time available to get in submissions once they are advertised (even Microsoft had problems), I’d strongly recommend you start drafting your submission now, even if it’s only one or two paragraph jotting, ready to email in.

I’ve made some notes on how to prepare a submission and the relevant RSS feeds to use here if you haven’t done it before.

But it’s no harder than writing a blog post or comment, the only tricky bit is getting the email in during the small window of opportunity the Howard government allows these days.

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