• =?UTF-8?B?8J+Hs/Cfh78=?= Coming Together Over A Moral, Not A Political, Issue

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to nz.general,alt.politics on Thu Jan 29 05:43:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    Remarkable to see both Efc|Efc+ Government and Opposition parties coming together <https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360931095/national-and-labour-team-speed-modern-slavery-legislation>
    to support an anti-slavery bill that a key part of the Government
    coalition doesnrCOt seem to like.

    Not sure why ACT is not in favour of codifying into law such
    protections for vulnerable workers. On the TV3 news this evening, ACT
    leader David Seymour said something particularly lame, about why the
    bill only imposes requirements on companies with annual turnovers of
    $100 million or more, while leaving out those beneath that. Would that
    mean he would have supported the bill if the threshold had been lower?
    Looks like it was just an excuse.
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