27,000

That's the number of submissions received on National's corrupt Muldoonist fast-track legislation. Except its higher than that, because the number doesn't include form submissions, such as the 15,000 people who supported Forest & Bird's submission, or the 14,000 who supported Greenpeace. And so many people want to appear in person that the Environment Committee has had to split into two subcommittees to hear them all.

For those wondering, its not the Most Submissions Ever. That goes to the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill (which banned torturing gay kids to try and turn them straight) received over 100,000 (including 68,000 form submissions). And there were 88,383 on the Water Services Entities Bill. But its definitely up there as one of the largest bills ever, and shows that the public care about environmental legislation. Which means trouble for the government if they continue down their present path, because that's a lot of people motivated to stop them.