Modern slavery legislation passed in 2022 has abslutely no bearing on public opinion on crime and punishment for violent offenders in 1999. People in NZ have been fed up with soft on crime policies and short setences for violent repeat offenders for a long, long, long time (and continue to be today). Despite what the noisy left wing in this country might tell you.

It baffles me that you people think we didn't know what we voted for in a referendum question expressed in a single sentence which included the words,

> Should there be a reform of our justice system [...] imposing minimum sentences and hard labour for all serious violent offences?