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EmpowerNZ featured in the NZ Journal of Public and International Law

EmpowerNZ featured in the NZ Journal of Public and International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law (2020 10 NZJPIL) has a distinctly EmpowerNZ theme, with a copy of the workshop’s draft Constitution featured at the end of the journal. Accompanying the draft Constitution is a description by Dean Knight and Julia Whaipooti of the process undertaken last August...
The McGuinness Institute Discusses Civics Teaching with the Centre for Citizenship Education

The McGuinness Institute Discusses Civics Teaching with the Centre for Citizenship Education

Within the many conversations members of the Institute overhear around political, policy and constitutional issues, one commonly voiced sentiment is the frustration of New Zealanders over the lack of learning that takes place in our curriculum around civics and the running of government. On Friday morning McGuinness Institute staff and Wendy McGuinness met with someone...
Constitutional Conversation website is launched!

Constitutional Conversation website is launched!

“It might be a warm korero or a prickly korero, but what we’ve got to do is keep the korero going,” was one of TV Personality Pio Terei’s opening statements during the launch of The Constitutional Conversation website, which will form the major platform for the Constitutional Advisory Panel (CAP) to engage with the public...