from John Robinson

Add a submission not a name

When WW published my submission on the Treaty Principles Bill, one comment asked: “is it possible to turn this into a submission that can have other names added at the bottom?”  I raised that with the Bill’s officials; their reply was:

“Signatures cannot be added to an individual submission.  Those people could put in submissions with similar content, or express agreement with your comments, but cannot co-sign a submission already provided.”

The simple way is to send in your own submission, to include a quote (as much as you wish) from the submission that you support, and identify that submission by who sent it.

Submissions close on 7 January, so there is no rush at this point, but put that date on the calendar! —Eds