Everyone deserves to be able to get where they need to go, whether that’s getting to work, attending school, visiting the doctor, buying groceries or seeing friends and family. Access to reliable public transport can make a real difference to people’s independence, opportunities and quality of life. 1. A lack of bus stops on Waipuna Road and Levene Place creates barriers for people who need transport most Auckland Transport decides where buses stop, and right now there are no bus stops on these roads. The nearest public transport is at least 25 to 30 minutes walk, creating additional barriers for the working class people, the elderly, disabled people, students, people on lower incomes and others who cannot drive or do not have access to a car. Without convenient public transport, everyday journeys to work, education, healthcare, shops and other essential services can become much harder. 2. The people who keep this area running need better options Waipuna Road and Levene Place are home to people who care for residents at Radius Rest Home, welcome guests at Waipuna Hotel and work for employers such as Rocket Lab and other local businesses. We are calling for bus stops at key locations along Waipuna Road, including near Waipuna Hotel and around 103 Waipuna Road, close to Rocket Lab and Resthome. These locations would help make public transport more accessible for employees, hotel guests, rest home workers, residents and other people who live, work or visit the area. Workers need practical ways to get to and from work, including those who cannot drive or rely on someone else for a lift. 3. Better bus connections would help people access more of their community, including Panmure Basin on weekends Better bus connections on Waipuna Road and Levene Place could give people more options for getting to work, reaching shops and essential services, and travelling to destinations such as Sylvia Park, Pakuranga and Panmure. Improved public transport connections could also make Waipuna Junction more accessible to Aucklanders, particularly on weekends. Waipuna junction is a valuable recreational destination where people can enjoy Waipuna Miniature Railway, RC boat drive, picnic, playground and spending time with family and friends, and connecting with nature. However, people without access to a car may find it difficult to visit if convenient public transport options are limited. Better connections throughout the week and on weekends would help families, young people, older adults, people with disabilities and others enjoy local recreational spaces and participate more fully in community life. Public transport should support not only commuting and essential daily needs, but also recreation, wellbeing and social connection. Better connections would reduce reliance on cars and help make our community more accessible and inclusive. Help us improve public transport access for our community We are calling on local businesses, community organizations, and people who live and work in the area to stand together for better public transport access on Waipuna Junction, Waipuna Road, Waipuna road east and Levene Place. By signing this petition, we can show Auckland Transport that this is an issue our community cares about and that better access would benefit the people and businesses that make this area thrive. Sign this petition to call for better public transport access on Waipuna Road and Levene Place.

This year’s General Election provides a crucial opportunity to elect representatives who will take a stand for justice and be accountable to us, the people. Voters can use their power to demonstrate to political parties and candidates that those who enable or excuse Israel’s apartheid regime and genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians will not be elected or re-elected. By signing this pledge, you are committing to make your vote count for Palestine. Together we will vote only for political parties and candidates that are committed to the liberation of Palestine, and will commit the next Government of Aotearoa New Zealand to: • Recognising Palestinian statehood • Sanctioning the occupation for its ongoing genocide and decades-long illegal occupation of Palestine • Creating special visa pathways for Palestinians wanting to come to Aotearoa New Zealand • Divesting public money from companies that uphold Israeli systems of apartheid and illegal settlements It is time for you to take the pledge and make your vote count for Palestine. JOIN A RALLY FOR PALESTINE ON 10 OCTOBER - FIND DETAILS OF THE ACTIONS IN YOUR AREA HERE.

By signing the Kiwi Environment Election Pledge you're telling all political parties that your vote depends on their commitment to protecting our natural world & placing the environment high on their agenda - where it belongs.

Women and girls are already being secretly filmed, including in Aotearoa Smart glasses are entering a world where women and girls already experience voyeurism, sexual harassment and image-based abuse. The technology can make these forms of abuse easier to carry out discreetly. Overseas, men have used Ray-Ban Meta glasses to record encounters with women in public and post the footage on social media. Women have reported being filmed during everyday interactions, with videos attracting sexualised comments from strangers. Women working in massage parlours and the sex industry have also reportedly been filmed without their knowledge. In the United States, reports have described boys secretly filming girls with smart glasses and uploading footage to TikTok. There has already been a case in New Zealand. An Auckland man used Ray-Ban Meta glasses in an attempt to make an intimate visual recording of a sex worker without her consent. The case resulted in a guilty plea to attempting to make an intimate visual recording. It demonstrates how easily a device designed for everyday use can also be used to violate someone's privacy. The consequences can continue long after a recording is made. Footage can be uploaded, copied and shared beyond the control of the person recorded. An ordinary interaction can be presented to an online audience as entertainment, with the woman at its centre having no say in how she is shown. Children and young people face serious risks too. They should be able to attend school, socialise and spend time in public without having to wonder whether someone nearby is secretly recording them. NZ law does not clearly protect people from being secretly filmed in public New Zealand law can address some forms of harmful recording. The Crimes Act 1961 criminalises certain intimate visual recordings made without consent, and the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 can apply to the distribution of intimate recordings and other harmful digital communications. However, these protections have limits. Many reported incidents involving smart glasses concern fully clothed women filmed in public. A recording of that kind may fall outside the legal definition of an intimate visual recording, even if the footage is captured for sexual reasons and later used to humiliate or harass the person recorded. Other legal avenues may depend on the circumstances or require proof that is difficult to establish. Classification laws can prohibit material involving the sexual exploitation of children when it meets the legal test for an “objectionable” publication. But that test does not cover every harmful use of smart glasses. Livestreaming, AI alteration or sharing of footage can cause serious harm without the resulting material being legally “objectionable” under the Act. This means some harmful uses of smart glasses may fall outside the protection. The Privacy Commissioner has acknowledged the need to examine whether the current framework adequately addresses the risks. That review should include the responsibilities of companies that design, import and sell these products. Companies must take responsibility for harm that is easy to predict When companies introduce a new technology, they make choices about its design and what it can do. Those choices affect how easily the product can be misused and what happens to the information it captures. A small recording light, for example, offers limited protection if people nearby cannot see it or do not know what it means. Companies should not be able to shift responsibility for foreseeable harms onto customers by simply telling them to use a product responsibly. We have seen this pattern across the technology sector. Products are released and widely adopted, then the public is left to deal with the harms while the laws that protect us struggle to catch up. Women and girls are often expected to change their behaviour and remain alert to new forms of abuse. The companies profiting from the technology face far less pressure to prevent that abuse before it occurs. Recent events show why we cannot rely on individual retailers to make the right call. Kmart has now removed its Anko camera glasses from sale in New Zealand and Australia, amid growing privacy concerns. But more expensive camera-enabled glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta, remain available in Aotearoa through other retailers. A retailer’s decision to withdraw one product is welcome, but it is no substitute for enforceable safeguards that protect everyone, regardless of which brand is being sold. Smart glasses offer an opportunity to change that approach. Companies should be required to assess foreseeable risks before products reach the market and build effective safeguards into their design. That should include meaningful recording notifications and strict controls over how footage is stored, accessed and used by AI systems. Smart glasses also raise tikanga and Māori data sovereignty concerns  Smart glasses raise particular issues in contexts such as tangihanga and other culturally significant gatherings, where recording may conflict with tikanga relating to tapu, noa, whakapapa and the appropriate handling of images and voices. A device worn on the face cannot recognise or respect these contexts, and the person wearing it may not understand the tikanga involved. The ability to record, identify and store Māori faces and voices also raises concerns about Māori data sovereignty, particularly where biometric information is collected or processed without Māori control. A pause now lets us set the rules before covert filming becomes the norm Smart glasses can provide genuine benefits. For blind and low-vision people, AI-enabled glasses can help read signs, identify objects and navigate unfamiliar places. Regulation should protect those uses and access, including through appropriate exceptions or pathways for assistive technology. A pause on consumer sales would give New Zealand time to establish clear rules before these products become more popular. It would also send a clear message that companies must account for foreseeable harm when developing and selling powerful new technologies. The next Government has an opportunity to act on the concerns already raised by the Privacy Commissioner. We should not wait until covert recording becomes an ordinary part of public life, or until more people discover that footage of them has been shared without their consent.

Israel is only able to maintain its apartheid regime and to expand its illegal settlements because of material support from the international community, including through unethical investments by global financial institutions (including ASB and other New Zealand banks and funds). Mindful Money’s 2025 research showed that 91% of the New Zealand public want to avoid investments that violate human rights. However,many of our KiwiSaver funds are invested in companies that are involved in Israel’s illegal occupation, meaning that through our retirement savings we are inadvertently helping to finance of Israel’s system of apartheid, the expansion of illegal settlements in the Westbank and East Jerusalem, and the genocide of the people of Gaza.  According to research by Mindful Money, KiwiSaver funds' investments supporting Israeli settlements in Palestinian occupied territories almost doubled from March 2024 to March 2025 from $92 million to $179 million.  In April 2026, KiwiSaver investments in Motorola Solutions alone totalled $61 million. .  What can you do about it? With the ASB KiwiSaver win we’ve shown that people power works! We need to keep the  pressure on our KiwiSaver providers to divest from Israeli apartheid. It’s time to get ANZ to  to stop financing Israel’s apartheid, ongoing colonisation and genocide and divest from the illegal settlements. Together we can get them to do the right thing, again!  • Are you an ANZ customer? Sign the petition and use your power to demand that ANZ divest - or else you will switch to another provider. But don’t switch yet - while you’re still a customer you have power to pressure ANZ - keep the pressure on till 30 March 2027 when everyone will switch together if they haven’t divested from Motorola. • Not a ANZ customer? Sign the petition and share to help bring others on board to demand action from ANZ. Boycott action works - and is a powerful tool we can use to make big companies realise the cost of doing business with an apartheid state.  Why ANZ? Of all of New Zealand’s KiwiSaver funds, ANZ has the most investments in Motorola Solutions Inc.  https://www.whoprofits.org//writable/uploads/old/uploads/2018/06/old/bab_al_shams_-_ahmad_al_bazz.jpg Motorola Solutions Inc provides telecommunications, surveillance and military technology to the Israeli military and illegal Israeli settlements - effectively operating as the IDF’s technology arm and enabling the maintenance and expansion of these settlements. The company also provides technology for operating Israel’s checkpoints and separation wall, two key pieces of Israel's apartheid infrastructure.[1] Motorola Solutions Inc. have been included in the UN List businesses involved in activities that help maintain/enable Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law. [2] ANZ has $18 million invested in Motorola Solutions Inc., making their KiwiSaver fund one of the biggest investors in the occupation in the top 10 KiwiSaver providers. While many KiwiSaver funds are complicit in Israeli crimes, we have identified ANZ as the #1 Most Unethical KiwiSaver for those who care about Palestinian human rights.  The International Court of Justice – the world’s highest court – recently declared that states, international organisations, investment corporations and all other institutions must not assist in maintaining the illegal situation created by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.[3] In April this year the NZ High Court ruled that the NZ Super Fund’s decision to invest in Motorola Solutions (amongst other companies) were unlawful. [4] ANZ is currently complicit in Israel’s violations of human rights and international law through its investments in Motorola Solutions Inc. To avoid being an accomplice to this illegal activity, ANZ must divest from Israeli apartheid. BDS works! In calling on ANZ to divest from Motorola Solutions Inc. we are taking the lead from the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as a form of non-violent pressure on Israel. Both globally and here in Aotearoa, companies are realising that the investments in companies that sustain Israel's apartheid are unethical and are divesting. KiwiSaver providers Simplicity and ASB, Ireland’s sovereign investment fund and French Insurance giant AXA have all divested from services due to their role in illegal settlements. Public pressure works! We won with ASB. We can win with ANZ, and we won’t stop there… ANZ and other New Zealand banks and KiwiSaver providers continue to maintain investments in other companies directly or indirectly involved in the maintenance and extension of the illegal settlements, listed in the UN database. So we are also calling on ANZ and all other New Zealand banks and KiwiSaver providers to adopt policies that prohibit investments in the companies identified by the UN and get rid of any existing investments in these companies. These financial institutions are on notice that we don’t want our money invested in Israel’s discrimination and colonisation. If they continue to bank on apartheid, we’ll stop banking with them! It is more urgent and important than ever that our voices are heard loud and clear by decision-makers and to encourage others to join our growing movement. References:  [1] https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3808 [2] OHCHR update of database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem [30 June 2023]. [3] Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (Advisory Opinion) [2024]. [4] Nazzal v Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation [2026] NZHC 681, at [7], [97] and [100]. Photo credit: Motorola communication device used by the Israeli Police during the dispersal of a Palestinian demonstration Bab Al Shams, E1 Area | Jan 2013 | Photographed by Ahmad Al-Bazz, Activestills.

Political leaders set an example for society, including young people. How they campaign shapes what we see as acceptable in public life. We’re calling for political parties and candidates to uphold honesty, respect, transparency and integrity, and to campaign in ways that strengthen rather than undermine our democracy. 

We see the impact of economic abuse and family violence in our day-to-day work. We support victim-survivors and try to mitigate the harm caused by people who perpetrate economic abuse. But we often fight losing battles, because New Zealand’s systems allow economic abuse to happen, all too often with no recourse for addressing the harm caused.  Economic abuse is a form of family violence that uses coercive, controlling, and threatening behaviour to restrict or remove a person’s financial freedom, autonomy, and security. It is experienced in close personal relationships, particularly intimate partner relationships, and often occurs alongside other family violence behaviours. Research shows that 15% of ever-partnered women have experienced economic abuse. [1] Despite the prevalence of economic abuse, it is rarely recognised and responded to as a form of family violence. Yet the impact can be devastating. Without access to money, victim-survivors lack resources to escape violent partners and remain independent. We estimate it costs around $10,000 to separate from an abusive partner [2]. Even if they can escape, when faced with the threat of poverty, women may choose to stay.  When victim-survivors are able to leave, many are forced to carry coerced debt, ruined credit and financial harm long after the relationship ends. This is violence. We need to stop treating it like a hardship or budgeting problem. New Zealand laws and systems that don’t acknowledge and respond to this form of abuse adequately are lagging behind other countries. The United Kingdom and Australia have focused on amending legislation, policies, and processes to better support victim-survivors of economic abuse over the last five to ten years [3]. In contrast, Te Aorerekura and its associated Action Plans to date have no mention of, or response to, economic abuse [4]. Economic abuse is a form of family violence under the Family Violence Act 2018, but this only applies to the granting of a protection order (and ancillary property or furniture order) [5]. Economic abuse is not an isolated issue; it is a long-term driver of gender inequality and intergenerational harm in Aotearoa and needs to be treated as such. Policy recommendations have been developed in close partnership with the National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges, and are endorsed by around 80 other organisations from across the family violence, financial, and gender equity sectors. For the full list of policy changes recommended, see our website at https://thisisviolence.co.nz References: 1. Economic Abuse by An Intimate Partner and Its Associations with Women’s Socioeconomic Status and Mental Health, by Brooklyn M. Mellar, Janet Lynn Fanslow, Pauline J. Gulliver, and Tracey K. D. McIntosh. Economic Abuse by An Intimate Partner and Its Associations with Women’s Socioeconomic Status and Mental Health - Brooklyn M. Mellar, Janet Lynn Fanslow, Pauline J. Gulliver, Tracey K. D. McIntosh, 2024 2. Financial barriers to exiting abusive relationships, by Good Shepherd NZ Report: Financial barriers to exiting abusive relationships - Good Shepherd NZ 3. For example: Family Violence Flexible Support Packages. Family Violence Flexible Support Packages | vic.gov.au 4. Te Aorerekura Action Plan 2025-2030, Breaking the Cycle of Violence. The Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention.  Breaking the Cycle of Violence | The Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention 5. See Family Violence Act 2018, 11(e). Family Violence Act 2018 | New Zealand Legislation 

In New Zealand, too many people live in cold, damp and mouldy rental homes despite the Healthy Homes Standards. Poor housing affects health, education, employment and wellbeing, while also placing avoidable costs on families and the wider health system. A healthy home should not depend on how confident a tenant feels about challenging their landlord, or whether a landlord chooses to comply. ““Our walls are crying.” — A whānau living in a private rental in Auckland.” The current system relies heavily on landlords declaring their own compliance with the Healthy Homes Standards, with limited independent auditing. This creates a significant gap between what a property is reported to comply with and what tenants may actually experience. The 2026 Aotearoa Renters’ Survey, conducted by Renters United and ActionStation and involving 3,310 renters across Aotearoa, found that 18.7% of respondents believed their home was probably not up to Healthy Homes Standards. More concerningly, while many respondents had been given evidence or verbal reassurance that their home was Healthy Homes compliant, 42.7% still reported problems with mould, dampness or draughts.[1] We call for independent Healthy Homes certification and regular compliance checks for rental properties. Independent assessment would provide greater assurance that a property meets the standards, strengthen accountability, and give tenants greater confidence that the home they are renting is genuinely healthy. Together, we can work towards an Aotearoa where every person can live in housing that is safe, warm, dry and healthy. Please sign and share this petition. References  1. https://rentersunited.org.nz/aotearoa-renters-survey/ Further reading:   1. https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/about-tenancy-services/news/rotorua-landlord-ordered-to-pay-exemplary-damages-issued-with-3-year-restraining-order/  2. Mould growing on shoes raises questions over Healthy Homes compliance  3. Tenants still battling mould and damp, despite healthy homes standards compliance | RNZ  4. Landlord who rented out unlawful sheds and shipping containers ordered to pay exemplary damages and refund rent » Tenancy Services  5. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/1120121/worst-property-managers-named-and-shamed-in-new-report  6. https://www.consumer.org.nz/consumer-rights-and-campaigns/your-rights/property/assessing-rental-health-are-landlords-complying-with-the-standards  Tips for living in a healthy home https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/forms-and-resources/healthy-homes-standards-toolkit-for-tenants 

By eight, 35% of NZ children experience a family member’s death - for 1% of children, that’s a parent. Yet, many of us don’t know what to say when someone dies – often we say nothing. We at GESA believe grief education can normalise grief, reduce fear, build emotional literacy, strengthen peer support and reduce isolation. England requires grief education in its national curriculum from Sept 2026 – we believe NZ should also prepare young people for the losses that are inevitably part of life.  Please sign and share this petition with all your contacts and networks. It takes only a minute and would benefit the thousands of tamariki and rangatahi who are bereaved each year.

Our community will thrive when we have strong connections between our whenua, our people and our housing. This means that as affordable homes are being built, we need to ensure whānau can access parks and playgrounds to gather and play.  The Tāmaki community (Glen Innes, Panmure, Point England) is experiencing a government-led gentrification process throughout our community. The Tāmaki Regeneration Company (jointly owned by Auckland Council and central government) is increasing housing from 2,500 to 10,000 houses within a 5 km2 area; this doesn't include the private housing being built in the area. Within the small block that Torino Reserve is on, there is a Simplicity Building complex on 2 Torino St which has 69 apartments, over 150 Tāmaki Regeneration homes completed, and 4 more Tāmaki Regeneration developments planned.  More good quality, warm homes are supported for our community, but this must happen alongside good public planning which retains and expands green spaces which provide spaces for all of those whānau to be able to bring their tamariki, come together and play.  Torino Reserve provides green infrastructure to support existing and new whānau who live in the community. Torino Reserve has been an important space in our community since it was built in the 1950s. Its history includes being the nursery of the trees that are scattered around all of the old state houses in Tāmaki, and is now a dedicated overland flow path to divert floodwaters. It is a thoroughfare for local students, pedestrians and cyclists, and has been used for recreation for many years. Our community doesn’t want to be consulted anymore. We want collaboration and a seat at the table to be able to decide what happens in our community. We are calling on Auckland Council to work with the community of Tāmaki, to create a plan that builds more homes and protects the green spaces we need for our community and whānau to thrive.    

AI is being pushed upon us at break-neck speed, not only as an attractive option but also unchosen and without our consent. AI has a heavy environmental cost and is derived through the exploitation of physical and intellectual resources that society has not agreed should be used in this way. When an AI Overview is automatically generated by our search, albeit without our having requested it, we are made to be complicit in this technology. For these reasons, we believe that automated AI functions are unethical and should be removed. People should have to choose AI every time they want it, thus encouraging more awareness and personal accountability in digital activity and reigning in the wasteful blanket approach that is currently in place. The AI Overview An AI overview uses ten times as much energy as a traditional search. [1] With many millions of searches made per day in New Zealand, it certainly makes a difference in terms of energy consumption, whether it is a traditional or an AI search that takes place.  The AI overview was put into action as an automatic add-on without asking permission of users and there is no easy way to turn it off. This contributes to the normalisation and forced adoption of AI and the knock-on effect of justifying the ‘need’ for data centres. Environmental harm Data centres are required to store data and process searches.[3] Data centres are proliferating rapidly worldwide fuelled by the needs of the AI explosion. There are already in the range of 10,000 data centres around the world.[4] The new data centre consented for New Zealand’s deep south alone will cost NZ$3.5 billion.[5] Who is this actually benefitting? Data centres destroy environments, use enormous amounts of power and water, contribute negatively to the climate crisis and are generally not wanted by the communities in which they are built.[6] The AI overview is wasteful of resources so although it appears to be “free,” in fact, “someone pays” —  and it is the environment and the people living in areas around data centres, as well as anyone who pays a power bill, as the demand for resources is expected to raise the price of power [7]. The AI overview is made to be effortless on the part of the consumer, adding to the creation of a habit and a dependency, and the illusion that it has no cost. Theft of intellectual and artistic property AI capacity is made possible through theft of intellectual and artistic property as the thinkers, writers, scientists and artists of the world who created the content and discoveries that AI is trained on were not asked for permission [8], just as we were not asked if we wanted to use this “service.” By unintentionally initiating the process, we are made to be complicit against our will. We are added to the statistic of AI users that contributes to the impression of acceptance and uptake of the technology by the population and, once again, to the justification of the growing need for data centres. Misinformation  Needless to say, the AI Overview is not always correct but will frequently be taken at face value putting people at risk of harm from false and misleading information. Health professionals are just one of many groups who have expressed concern over misinformation provided by the AI Overview, and have cited numerous examples that could lead to serious health consequences. [9] This is why we are calling on our representatives to create frameworks and policies that will protect our right to choose our impact as individuals and consumers, and protect our communities and our environment. The AI Overview should be an option not a must.  Sign the petition and share it with your friends and family. References  1. Google AI Search Uses 10x More Energy Than Standard Searches | Sustainability Magazine   2. Explainer: What is a data centre and why is everyone freaking out now? | RNZ   3. Datacentres are a ticking timebomb. We must make sure AI’s benefits outweigh the costs | Nicki Hutley | The Guardian   4. ‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first AI datacentre spark concern as locals demand greater transparency  5. Under a cloud: the growing resentment against the massive datacentres sprouting across Australian cities | Computing | The Guardian  6. Under a cloud: the growing resentment against the massive datacentres sprouting across Australian cities | Computing | The Guardian  7. AI data centres are booming in Australia - but at what cost? 8. AI, Copyright, and the Law: The Ongoing Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights  9. Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice

Smoking and similar nicotine products have been shown to have significant detriments to an individual’s health. Yet, smoking is still under-regulated in New Zealand. New Zealand is committed to a “Smokefree 2025”, with under 5% of New Zealanders smoking by the year 2025; this deadline came and went with 8.3% of New Zealanders being smokers and 6.8% smoking daily in 2024-2025 according to the New Zealand Health Survey (Ministry of Health – Manatū Hauora, 2025).  New Zealand has lacked direction on smoking policy since legislation was passed in 2024 that overturned the policies aimed at decreasing smoking rates introduced in 2022 (Chisholm, 2024). The 2022 policies were described as “world-leading” (Chisholm, 2024), but were scrapped without a clear alternative plan. Smoking remains just as damaging to health as it was at the time of the 2022 legislation, so why is there no action being taken to reduce this damage? We believe New Zealand must remain committed to minimising the health detriments of smoking and similar nicotine products, and that new governmental policy should support this.  Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora (2025), smoking can cause gum disease and cancer, as well as damage vision, lungs, making it hard to breathe, and can cause premature signs of ageing in the skin.  By introducing legislation that properly regulates the sale of tobacco and nicotine products in New Zealand, we can make progress towards a future in which the happiness and health of New Zealanders are prioritised over the bottom lines of big tobacco companies. We seek a change in legislation that looks towards New Zealand’s future and makes genuine positive change for the health of New Zealanders. References: Chisholm, D. (2024). Up in Smoke. In Ingenio (pp. 20–22). Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland. https://www.auckland.ac.nz/assets/alumni/whats-happening/alumni-publications/ingenio-autumn-2024/Ingenio-autumn-2024-web.pdf Health Coalition Aotearoa. (2024, April 22). Tobacco and Vaping. Health Coalition Aotearoa. https://www.healthcoalition.org.nz/tobacco-and-vaping/ Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. (2025). What smoking is doing to your body. Smokefree.Org.Nz. https://www.smokefree.org.nz/facts/health-effects/what-smoking-is-doing-to-your-body Ministry of Health – Manatū Hauora. (2025, November 19). New Zealand Health Survey highlights long-term decline in smoking rates. Ministry of Health NZ. https://www.health.govt.nz/news/new-zealand-health-survey-highlights-long-term-decline-in-smoking-rates