We are calling on the Minister of Transport, Michael Wood, to implement free bus fares for tertiary and high school students across New Zealand.

When you announced the increase in the Overseas Development Assistance earlier this year you said we can and must show the international community that New Zealand is serious in addressing the global and regional challenges and helping people in need.[1] We ask you now to help people in need by doubling the refugee quota to 1500. You supported raising the quota last year from 750 to 1000 - New Zealand can provide the opportunity to live in peaceful, caring communities to 500 more men, women and children, and we believe we should do it. This is such a small number in the big scheme of things, but will mean so much to those families seeking a chance to rebuild their lives. The world needs us now.

We request that the 2016 Defence White Paper proposal to spend an extra $20 billion over the next 15 years be reconsidered, and instead that this money be redirected into purposeful peacemaking and non-violent ends - specifically on child safety education and other welfare work.

Help us stop the export of live animals from Port Taranaki. We, the undersigned, request that Taranaki Regional Council, as sole shareholder in Port Taranaki, directs the Port to cease the export of live farmed animals.

1. Stop providing sponsorship, funding and support to the annual NZ Defence Industry expo, and militarisation. 2. Redirect the “Vote Defence Budget” for urgent housing, educational, health, social and environmental needs, and for supporting an increased refugee intake from war torn countries. 3. Support a strong stand for peace. Kia kaha. PETIHANA HOUHANGA RONGO Kaua e whakaae ki te hui taonga-patu, me te pōwhiri i ngā waka pora ki roto i o mātou puaha. Ki te Whare o Raro o te Pāremata o Aotearoa Ko tā mātou: He whenua Karihi-Kore Houhanga Rongo a Aotearoa. E mautohe ana mātou i te utu nui e haumi ana i ngā waonga pakanga, e kore e taitu ana i te whakatuatea, engari ka akiaki kē i te whakarekereke, ki hea noa iho he pakanga mutunga kore. E kore mātou e whakaae ana ki te tautoko o te Paremata i te hui taonga-patu mo ngā rōpu taonga patu o te ao. Ko te 16 me te 17 o Whiringa-ā-rangi ngā rā kua whiriwhiria mo tēnei hui ki Tāmaki Makau Rau, ā, ko te rōpu hanga taonga-patu nui ake o te ao, hanga taonga-patu kōrihi hoki, a Lockheed Martin, te tino kaitautoko o tēnei hui. E whakatakoto ana mātou, o Aotearoa, i te mānuka ki te Paremata: 1. Kāti te tautoko i te hui a tau o te Roopu Waonga o Aotearoa, me te mahi whakareri mo te pakanga. 2. Tākoha i te moni mo te “Vote Defence Budget” ki ngā raru pāpori, ngā raru whare, ngā raru kura, ngā raru hauora, ngā raru taiao, me te tautoko i te whakanuia i te āheinga ki te pōwhiri i ngā rerenga mai ngā motu e kaha pakanga ana. 3. Tū kaha mo te houhanga a rongo.

Cervical cancer is now preventable. The new screening programme must be FREE OF CHARGE. Please become a champion to eradicate cervical cancer in Aotearoa in our lifetime - sign this petition, share it on social media and let your MP know that the upcoming programme should be at no cost to you or your whānau.

Update the Consumers’ Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Act to remove loopholes and make country of origin labelling compulsory for all foods including processed meats.

To: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Due to current unstable and insufficient clean drinking in many towns and cities in NZ and predicted record high temperatures over the summer, serious urgent action needs to be taken. We demand that: 1. A comprehensive and consistent national standard of acceptable drinking water to be implemented immediately, backed up by regular uniform tests. 2. That Council staff report fairly, transparently and regularly on their current situations, so surprises do not occur for communities. 3. Proper resourcing is provided for the highest possible drinking water standards and supply to be maintained.

Dear Prime Minister Luxon and Minister van Velden, Right now, an estimated 50 million children, women and men around the world are trapped in modern slavery (1). These people grow the fibres and make the clothes we wear; grow, harvest and process the crops for the food we eat; and mine the minerals and make the electronics we use. In 2022, New Zealand imported $7.9B of ‘risky goods’ associated with child and forced labour. This amounts to 10% of our country’s total imports. Every week, New Zealand households unknowingly spend an average of $77 on these ‘risky goods’ - more than they spend on electricity (2). We urge your government to take action and make progress on this issue by introducing modern slavery legislation in New Zealand.

We want the Waikato Regional Council to make the resource consent applications for all factory farms open to public submission. This includes the currents resource consent applications from Buchanan Ellis Ltd to build 6 new sheds that will house 42,000 chickens each in Waerenga and from PIC New Zealand Limited to triple the size of their commercial piggery to house 12,000 pigs in Maramarua, as well as any other resource consent applications for factory farms in the region that might be submitted in the future.