After all the valedictory speeches, the government were left with 45 minutes in which to complete the passage of amending legislation. Impassioned rhetoric from Mr Peters to the affect that the surcharge should be repealed as National promised left his opponents unmoved and the changes became law. Works Civil Construction was sold to Hong Kong owned Downer and Co., while Works Consultancy Services have been sold to Malaysia's Kinta Kellas. The Justice and Law reform Committee of parliament has released a report recommending that all GPs should be allowed to authorise abortions, without the present necessity to gain the consent of a certifying consultant. Battle lines are drawn according to predictable patterns.
Unsupervised drug dispensing is a dangerous practice they say.
Further, they complain, some managers use them as cheap labour rather than providing them with the training they are there for. One of the complaints was from a third year nurse who was assigned to making beds for a whole afternoon when, in her judgement, about five beds was sufficient for training purposes. He simply buys TV time to advertise the book. This has infuriated other parties, and especially his National opponent in Wellington Central, Mark Thomas who has laid a formal complaint with the commission. Despite this handicap, and the cunning of Mr Prebble, Mr Thomas is leading the polls in Wellington Central at present.