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It’s about empowering authorities to act without fear of consequence, and undoing the changes in culture and law set in motion by the killing of George Floyd.

History will nevertheless remember Francis as a pope of consequence, who met the proverbial moment in a way that would make St. Peter proud.

To admit facts but strip them of consequence is to neuter the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard.

Among those backing it was Ruth Richardson, a former finance minister for the centre-right National Party, who told the select committee that the proposed legislation was "a bill of consequence whose time has come".

"The fear of consequence is just not there and I think that's why we need to see more resources and more focus by the police," she says.