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Provocation axe "long overdue" - Rainbow Wellington

Fri 27 Nov 2009 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback

"Long overdue but very welcome" is how Rainbow Wellington chairperson Tony Simpson describes the abolition of the 'provocation defence' in a near unanimous vote of parliament sitting under urgency yesterday evening. "I was watching the late news and it popped up quite suddenly. I knew it was on the Order Paper but I didn't expect it to pass quite so soon. I went out and had a glass of bubbly at S  

Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News Staff

First published: Friday, 27th November 2009 - 4:08pm

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