JOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise in opposition to this bill. I've spent much of my most recent career working as a lawyer in the courts, including in some of the High Courts of New Zealand, and I rise today in the highest court in the country, effectively. This is the House that makes the law. And the great mistake that the Labour Party has made, in my submission, is that this is creating a potential issue of division in our country by pushing through a change in our electoral system that is not bringing in the people of New Zealand to have an opportunity to properly discuss this, properly engage in the select committee process. Giving New Zealanders less than two days to file submissions is not appropriate on a matter that strikes at the heart of how our democracy works at local government level.