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It always confuses me when a right-wing party proposes an actual good law especially one that would ordinarily be associated with the left. So when I saw the RNZ article about National pledging reform of consent definitions I was all "Huh, what's up with that?" Part of what's up with that seemed to be that they were tying it in with their "victim's rights / tough on crime" rhetoric which always ends up actually bashing vulnerable groups disproportionately, but still. But then I saw the Stuff article on the same topic, which explains that the other part of what's up with that is that Labour has been trying to get this done as a cross-party thing for ages and National's been actively sitting on their hands about it, so yeah that explains it. They're basically holding justice to ransom for election votes. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-and-justice/741708/national-promises-stricter-rules-on-sexual-consent https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361008148/national-promises-change-consent-laws-if-re-elected-labour-says-lets-get-it-done-now