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In its penultimate sitting week of the year, Parliament was flat out, debating 12 different bills - 11 of them under urgency.
The week began with the hype around the Resource Management Act (RMA) announcement, but while two major RMA bills were introduced, they weren't actually debated.
The small RMA-related bill that was debated, which extends certain consents, was contentious mostly because of the urgency and its very late reveal to the opposition.
The big flashpoints came later in the week, with two particularly contentious pieces of legislation debated through Thursday and until nearly 2am Friday, and the other through much of Friday.
The first of them was the Electoral Amendment Bill, back in the House from the Justice Select Committee, and given the urgency
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