Dear Minister of Health, we applaud your reversal of your decision to provide funding for our most vunerable pepi with pepi pods/wahakura but we would please urge you to roll out a nationwide programme where all families are able to have one of these for their most precious taonga.

We are calling on you to support the wellbeing of our communities repealing and replacing the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 to make sure that drug use is treated as a health and social issue. The recent referendum on the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill brought to a head a long overdue public conversation about drugs and shone a light on the stigma and shame that has held back progress on this issue. Although the referendum on that specific law change did not pass, there is clearly a growing consensus from people and communities across all sides of the referendum debate - our current approach to drug law is hurting our communities. Since the referendum results, more people than ever are now in favour of a new approach to drug law, as indicated in a poll conducted earlier this year*. Our laws prevent people accessing help when they need it, and they leave thousands every year with a conviction that impacts on livelihoods, mental health, relationships, travel, housing and education. We urge you to adopt international best practice, which increasingly favours removing all criminal penalties for low-level drug offences. We call on you to overhaul the Misuse of Drugs Act and put in its place a system that puts health and social justice first. The new law should ensure that people are no longer prosecuted for low-level drug offences and are instead offered a pathway into treatment if they need it. We call on you to take this decision in our collective best interest, based on good evidence and a shared vision for a fairer and more equitable society. Let's keep moving on drug law, and take this step forward for the wellbeing of all of our communities. * https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300247798/new-poll-shows-majority-support-for-decriminalising-cannabis-use List of organisations: ActionStation Amnesty New Zealand Auckland City Mission Child Poverty Action Group Dapaanz Drugs, Health and Development Project E Tipu E Rea Hāpai te Hauora Helen Clark Foundation JustSpeak Lifewise Make It Legal MCANZ Mental Health Foundation Māori Law Society National Hauora Coalition New Zealand Medical Association New Zealand Needle Exchange New Zealand University Students Association NZ Drug Foundation People Against Prisons Aotearoa Public Health Association Te Hauora o Turanganui a Kiwa Te Rau Ora Wellington City Mission Wesley Community Action YES 2020 List of individuals: Chester Borrows, QSO, previous MP for the National Party Joe Boden, Professor and Director, Christchurch Health and Development Study, University of Otago Christchurch Dr Fiona Hutton, Associate Professor, Institute of Criminology, Victoria University Wellington Richard Medlicott, Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners Doug Sellman, Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch

We want the government of Aotearoa New Zealand to initiate a bottle deposit scheme to prevent drink packaging waste. This would help stop plastic pollution while building a circular economy. Let’s make it happen!

The permanent exhibit ‘The Treaty of Waitangi: Signs of a Nation’ is deceitful and must be changed with all due haste in order to accurately reflect our history. As a first step, we call for the urgent removal of the illegitimate English Treaty version from its current place of prominence alongside Te Tiriti o Waitangi and for it to be replaced by an accurate English translation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

We call on Erica Stanford, Minister of Education and the current government to reinstate the Creative in Schools Programme.  Young people need access to the arts more than ever in this ever-changing world. CiS was a fantastic programme that worked on many levels.  The programme was unexpectedly axed by the government in June 2024, despite consistently positive evaluations, including a 2023 report that stated: "Creatives in Schools provides a powerful example of how to deliver to the school arts curriculum in the 21st century… Creatives in Schools continues to deliver important benefits to ākonga and students, schools, creatives and communities."[1]

We respectfully request that the House of Representatives urge the Government to require Sport NZ to make funding for School Sports NZ conditional on allowing home-schooled domestic students to compete in student sports events.

We, the undersigned, call on you to reassess the Sensible Sentencing Group Trust's charitable status and independently investigate the links it has with the Sensible Sentencing Trust in terms of funding and resource sharing for the purposes of non-charitable political lobbying.

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.

We request that Pāremata Aotearoa, New Zealand Parliament supports the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Harm Minimisation) Amendment Bill. This petition will close on the 28th September, 2022. All signatures at that point will be presented to Parliament.