Amendments to the Terrorism Bill

Thanks to all of you who wrote to David Sanders asking to make a submission on the Amendments to the Terrorism (Financing and Bombing) Bill and demanding that the amendments be released to the public.

Partly because of your emails, the Select Committee has been forced to agree that the amendments should become public and that there is time for people to make submissions. The Select Committee has given people until the 30th November to make submissions and will report back to the House in March 2002.

We have also won another partial victory with the very worst aspects of the proposed amendments being removed.

There is no time to rest on our laurels though, as the amendments are still unacceptable.

Arena people are in the process of producing analysis of the amendments to help people write submissions, and we will send these to you as soon as possible. You can download a copy of the Select Committee report and the Amendments from http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/content/91/fd121int.pdf

You can also get a copy of the submission process.

In the next few days we will also send out another Action Alert with suggested activities you can plan and participate in to show your opposition to the Bill.