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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1009/
- Published: 2024-07-24T18:30:35.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-24T18:30:35.000Z
- Description: Louise Upston was absent from the House when the bill was called.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, NZ Politics, Louise Upston

The *NZ Herald* reports:

> A piece of government legislation has been discharged because no minister was available to speak on it in the House.  
>  
> The Regulatory Systems (Social Security) Amendment Bill was supposed to have its first reading at Parliament on Wednesday morning.  
>  
> The bill was in the name of [Social Development minister Louise Upston](https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350271270/new-disability-issues-minister-louise-upston-insists-whaikaha-will-re-brand?ref=goodoil.news), but she was absent from the House when the bill was called.  
>  
> Labour’s assistant whip Arena Williams moved that Parliament set the bill aside, so it could move on to the next item on the order paper.

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