Little AndrewHon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Justice): I just want to respond to a couple of the points raised in particular by the member Chris Penk. I'm very thankful for his contributions; they're always thoughtful and I think always well presented. I'm not going to get into plurals of referendum. I think that's been disposed of and the Clerk has approved the title of the bill—that's the only thing that matters really.The member raised the question about the drafting of the bill in relation to the fact that the referendum is to be held in conjunction with the first general election after the passage of the bill as of the commencement of the Act. That is a more felicitous expression I think than his alternative proposal that actually sounded very conflicted with all due respect. I think people are very clear what this applies to. A bit like some of the other areas of electoral law that this Government has been prevailed upon to consider that is in the context of an overarching piece of advice that I've had which is that the reality is our electoral law—with separate bits of legislation relating to different types of referendum sort of bolted on to it—is kind of grown like Topsy. It's a 1956 piece of law with MMP jammed into it and not a great deal else. It is needing of a ground-up review. So I am foreshadowing that following the next general election should any of the parties in Government be in a position to do so this House should expect they will be engaged in a ground-up review of the Electoral Act. So we're not trying to legislate too far ahead.The member refers to the definition of referendum. That definition covers the different sources of referendum that might happen. We now have one mandated by the End of Life Choice Act and we can have one that comes through an Order in Council provision which is what this bill effectively provides for. So it covers all those possibilities and it therefore achieves what is needed in order to get those questions answered by the electorate in next year's general election.The member referred to the citizens initiated referendum process and worries that something like a referendum question might come up through that process—and I simply point out to him that that legislation is a recurring process for getting out a citizens initiated referendum which starts with a petition to Parliament of quite humungous proportions: I think 10 percent of the electorate has to sign up to it. In the end this bill is about preparing ourselves for the next general election. And really in answer to the comments from the Hon Jacqui Dean it is giving the Electoral Commission enough time to do their preparation to do that so that it can be organised. So I don't anticipate there would be referendum questions coming from any other source. There will be two questions in next year's general election and these will be them.To answer the Hon Jacqui Dean's question I go back to the point about timeliness. We need to pass this legislation to give the Electoral Commission the mandate to organise these referendums on these questions for 2020; anything beyond that we'll come back to in the more thorough going review of our electoral law.