Biscuit Tin Democracy

Photograph: Twitter/NZ Parliament

In New Zealand a 30-year-old biscuit tin has become a mainstay of parliamentary democracy. Laws that MPs have proposed to be debated in the house are represented by plastic bingo counters in an old biscuit tin labelled "Members’ Bills." Each plastic counter represents a bill, and when there is space on parliament’s order paper for a fresh round of proposed laws, a member of the parliamentary service digs into the tin for a lucky dip.

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