Matthew Hooton submitted on the Electoral Finance Bill under his company name, Exceltium Limited. It includes this gem.
The Committee may also like to note that the Bill’s proposed spending
limits of $60,000 in 2007 dollars would be just $18,024.71 in 1981 dollars. It
would be extraordinary for the Committee to argue that the anti-apartheid
movement should have been limited to this amount in 1981. It is noteworthy
that not even the Government of Sir Robert Muldoon sought to clamp down
on the anti-apartheid movement to this degree.
Update: Thanks DPF for the hat tip. Readers new to Half done might also be interested in this post where I discuss my findings after reading 180 of the 580 submissions. I’ll do a fuller post when I’ve read them all… whenever that is!
Something should go here, maybe later. 
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[…] Half Done has a nice quote from the submission from Matthew Hooton: The Committee may also like to note that the Bill’s proposed spending limits of $60,000 in 2007 dollars would be just $18,024.71 in 1981 dollars. It would be extraordinary for the Committee to argue that the anti-apartheid movement should have been limited to this amount in 1981. It is noteworthy that not even the Government of Sir Robert Muldoon sought to clamp down on the anti-apartheid movement to this degree. […]
Excellent post scrubone. Hooten’s submission should be mandatory reading! Will it make an iota of difference though? I’m not holding my breath!