Posts tagged "parliament"
LocalNZ – Day Four

LocalNZ – Day Four

On Wednesday, 19 November the participants returned to Treasury for the final day of LocalNZ. With over 200 guests soon to be at Parliament, the group were under pressure to finalise their presentations – each person needing to turn three days of experiences into a product that highlighted their most important findings. Once this was...

Constitutional Review Announced

We are happy to hear the announcement today of a constitutional review. The review’s terms of reference are: The size of Parliament. The length of terms of Parliament and whether or not the term should be fixed. The size and number of electorates, including the method for calculating size. Electoral integrity legislation. Maori representation, including...

An Anatomy of Youth

A recent publication from DEMOS institute, ‘An Anatomy of Youth’, examines how politicians in Britain must address policy relevant to young people: “politicians will have to do more than associate themselves with the trappings of youth culture to prove their relevance. They need to start taking their cue from the values and concerns of the next generation of...