We call on the Minister of Education Hon Chris Hipkins to: ✊🏼 Stop the new Evolve contracts - they’re unfair and unlawful ✊🏼 Fix the broken funding system which allows profiteering off children by big corporates ✊🏼 Protect and respect teachers and ensure they have basic job security and pay parity with all other teachers. Protect quality teaching for our youngest children – sign to stand up for fair work and fair pay for ECE teachers!

Trade Aid and World Vision respectfully request: That the House of Representatives, as a matter of urgency, enacts Modern Slavery legislation that requires public and private entities to report on the risks of modern slavery in their operations and supply chains, and on the actions they are taking to address those risks.

Migrants on temporary visas are not able to access welfare payments in New Zealand, they have no safety net... Unless the government enacts Section 64 of the Social Security Act (Emergency Benefit: Grant during epidemic in New Zealand). New Zealand did grant this in 2020, but on 31 August 2021 it lapsed. When everyone is being told to stay home, how do we expect vulnerable people pay the rent or afford the essentials like food? We ask that Emergency Benefits for migrants on temporary visas be reinstated, to ensure everyone has support to live and stay safe. These payments need to be enough to live on. The Emergency Benefit rate must be set on par at the equivalent rate of the main benefit type that MSD would normally grant to a person in their circumstances where they would qualify. Standard benefit rates are 20% below the poverty line. If Jacinda and her team can find the kindness in their hearts, please lift the benefit rates to a liveable level.

We ask that the Ministry for the Environment and the Minister for the Environment honour the call from the public for a swimmable bottom line for our waterways, by writing the Ministry of Health's guidelines into the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management. We do not support the Government's worse swimming standards for freshwater.[1] We support a return to the Ministry of Health's microbiological guidelines for New Zealand's swimming standards. This is where an acceptable swimming standard is an E. coli count of 260 per 100 mL of freshwater (95th percentile).[2]

We are asking Minister of Transport Simeon Brown to fund the Greater Christchurch Public Transport Futures Programme (‘PT Futures’)[1], endorsed by the Greater Christchurch Councils (Christchurch City, Selwyn District, Waimakariri District and Environment Canterbury (‘ECan’) and by the NZ Transport Agency (‘NZTA’). PT Futures will deliver a fit-for-purpose public transport system for New Zealand's second largest city, by increasing the frequency of the busiest bus routes to every ten minutes or better by 2028, adding additional direct services to the key centres in Waimakariri and Selwyn, and include new bus lanes, infrastructure such as bus shelters, and real-time displays.

Urgent Independent Royal Commission of Inquiry into Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children - formerly CYFS

Now is the time for the Government to level the playing field and pass a law requiring all employers to be transparent and take action on their gender, Māori, Pacific, and other ethnic pay gaps. Not only is this the right thing to do, but it will ensure Aotearoa New Zealand is honouring te Tiriti o Waitangi and meeting its human rights obligations. It will bring us in line with other progressive countries already moving towards closing their pay gaps. Working together, we can build a future where everyone, whatever their ethnicity or gender, is paid fairly for their work and treated with respect and dignity. We are asking the Government to introduce pay transparency legislation with urgency.

Dear Vice Chancellors and Chief Executives of New Zealand Universities and Polytechnics We are students across New Zealand universities and polytechnics asking for your support during the COVID-19 public health crisis. As the government increases travel restrictions and encourages people to avoid mass gatherings, we want to ensure that our safety is met with help and support from our education providers. We believe that these measures need to be introduced urgently. Although classes have not yet been cancelled, it is important that we are supported to stay home when we begin to feel any signs of sickness or where it is important we self-isolate to protect members of our family who have heightened vulnerability. As a temporary measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, recordings should be available to ALL students, not only those with medical certificates or those who are in self-isolation. This is because we want to avoid over burdening the already inundated health service and to give students flexibility to stay home if they are feeling unwell.

***UPDATED*** Dear Mayor Phil Mauger and Christchurch City Council Members, Also to Kainga Ora as new owners of the property, -Firstly, we call on all council members to oppose the granting of a resource consent to the housing company that is developing the big property in spreydon at 70,74,76 and 78 domain tce. - Secondly, we ask Kainga Ora to spare the 100 year old elm and beech trees at the front of this property, in which little owls live. - Thirdly, we invite Kainga Ora to take a few step back in the design process and truly engage the voice of the community in redrawing the topology and features of the plan. The fabric of our community needs to be reinforced and empowered by being consulted in the process of it's transformation. We are calling on the Council and Kainga Ora to consider the greater good for all Christchurch communities. Consider, what is really best for our present and future residents? As human beings we yearn for a sense of connection to people and place. We believe this connection is essential to creating healthy humans and nations. We request the council and Kainga Ora supports our residents' need for community focused housing in a time where communities are more and more dislocated and compartmentalised by profit driven developers. All around us established gardens with shelter/shade and fruit trees continue to be levelled to create “concrete wastelands”. With little, if any, interest in building up a sense of connection to people and environment the developers plan to build maximised high-density housing on Domain Terrace which will require an exemption to The District Plan by way of Resource Consent. Why should profit driven developers be allowed to take charge of designing and changing our local spaces and lifestyle? Their plans are a significant departure from the 4002m. sections specified to preserve the intended nature of this area. This plan is already a considerable downsizing from the 8002m+ sections prevalent among the original houses on the street. No one wants to see another cookie cutter development with miniature sections, more fences, streets and driveways in our neighbourhood.

We are calling for a pathway for residency for non-citizens who are working on temporary work contracts.