CHRIS PENK (National—Helensville): Thank you, Mr Speaker. It's inappropriate to bring the Governor-General into the debate of this House; so I'll just reflect in general terms on the strange feeling that must have been about to descend on Government House when Her Excellency is asked to sign into law a very similar piece of legislation to that which she would have been asked not that long ago—yesterday, in fact, I understand. It's often been quoted—the original phrase, we understand, of Harold Wilson—that a week is a long time in politics; it's also quite a long time in the context of electoral law legislation. Actually, for the political geeks out there, apparently Harold Wilson originally made a similar comment back in 1960, some four years before that now-famous saying about the week being a long time of politics, that 48 hours is a long time in politics, which is, funnily enough, about the same period of time that the Government now intends to pass this entire new piece of legislation, amending the other one and, no doubt, have that passed into law and be assented again. 