Retract the hostile and divisive statement you made and apologise to the Ministry of Pacific Peoples and the wider Pacific community.

Let's build a thriving, just future for all in Aotearoa by honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

The future of one of the country’s oldest early education services, Playcentre, is now under threat. Playcentre educates more than 7 per cent of New Zealand’s preschoolers, yet receives less than one per cent of the Government’s funding for the Early Childhood Education sector. Its national body, Playcentre Aotearoa, says despite working over many months on a 2020 Budget bid with Ministry of Education officials, the small increase it received in the Budget is very disappointing and an insult to the valuable service Playcentre provides not just for children, but also to the parents who put in hours of voluntary work to maintain what is a unique organisation. There are more than 420 Playcentres all around the country, with about a third serving rural areas where sometimes a Playcentre is the only Centre-based service. Playcentre Aotearoa says it is those Centres that are the most vulnerable and may not survive the Government’s continued underfunding. Playcentre is a parent-led service, but in order to meet Government regulations, many Centres employ trained and qualified supervisors. Mr McKinley, the Playcentre General Manager, says it will now be very difficult to compete in the early childhood education market. “Playcentre has been cast adrift by the Government. We are urgently asking the Minister of Education, Chris Hipkins, to address our very real concerns before this unique learning choice is no longer available in the country where it was founded almost 80 years ago.” https://www.playcentre.org.nz/

Show our Prime Minister we stand behind her calls for action on the desperate situation on Manus Island, and urge her to keep the pressure on the Australian Parliament to evacuate the refugees. Send PM Jacinda Ardern an email commending her actions and calling on her to go further.

Fund the pay equity claim for all care and support workers, and stop the delays so we can reach a settlement.

We, the undersigned, seek that legislation be passed that the Government provide a daily fresh, healthy, nutritious and delicious lunch to all children at school and in early childhood education in New Zealand

We call on Wellington City Council to implement a community co-created, intersectional project to increase youth wellbeing and safety in the inner city as part of the new City Safety Plan.

We ask that the Bay of Plenty Regional Council: (1) Halt the proposed NZ Aquifer bottling facility in Murupara. (2) Commence a public engagement process to determine the consensus of parties who are likely to be affected by the establishment of a large water bottling facility. (3)Affected parties can be the following: local & absent landlords & ratepayers, individuals not aligned to any Iwi,business owners, all stakeholders,former residents, neighbouring iwi and hapu. (4) Request that the applicant conduct a thorough study of all the implications of the water export industry on Murupara and surrounds (including but not limited to, environmental, economic, trade, regulatory and governance) prior to approving any water-export developments in Murupara. (5) Publicly notify the resource consent application.

Dear Cabinet, We need to raise the age of Youth Justice to 21. Some young people need more support to become flourishing adults. The Government has recognised this by raising the age of state care to 21. We need to do the same for our youth justice system. Far too often we are talking about the same young people. We are processing 17-21 year olds through the adult criminal justice system. Instead of rehabilitating, it's leaving young people likely to continue offending - causing more victims and more harm. Our world-renowned youth justice system is excellent at getting young people on the right track while giving victims a say in the process. Instead of channelling young New Zealanders into a system we know makes them more likely to re-offend, let's get them into a system we know works by including under 21 year olds in our youth justice system. Let's invest at the right end of the system so that we don't need extra prison beds.

Dear Ministers Clark, Little, and Genter, Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act. Its main purpose was to grudgingly permit abortions, but only in some circumstances. Forty years on, abortion remains a crime in New Zealand. The effect of this outdated law is that people wanting to end their pregnancies must get two doctors to sign off on their choice, and say that continuing their pregnancy would cause 'serious danger to [their] physical or mental health'.This means they often have to lie about their mental health to get the health care they need. Ninety eight percent of abortions are 'allowed' on the mental health grounds. It's time for a change and the majority of New Zealanders support this. We call on you to reform the law, remove abortion from the Crimes Act and allow the decision to have an abortion to stay between the person and their GP.