In New Zealand's Parliament, a battered cookie tin decides which new laws get debated
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The decorative cookie tin, known in New Zealand as the biscuit tin, which was purchased from a department store in the early 1990s to draw lawmakers' bills from and remains in use, at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)Bingo tokens, each representing a lawmaker's bill to be entered into the ballot, are laid out before the draw at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)Socks are mugs printed with the biscuit tin pattern and label are seen for sale in the New Zealand Parliament gift shop in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)Parliamentary Service staffer Renee Beeson, left, draws a bingo token from the biscuit tin, observed by Chloe French and Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives David Wilson at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)
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The decorative cookie tin, known in New Zealand as the biscuit tin, which was purchased from a department store in the early 1990s to draw lawmakers' bills from and remains in use, at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)
