The New Zealand Government is not funding the introduction of HPV testing as a primary test - we need government to fund this programme change now. Sign this petition and let’s make it happen! There will be unnecessary loss of life without this gold standard test.

https://youtu.be/HUxgXAc0708 Update the Health Act and the relevant health legislation to make it a statutory requirement for all public health information and alerts to be in the official languages of NZ. We the undersigned request that the House of Representatives to update the Health Act and the relevant health legislation to make it a statutory requirement for all public health information and alerts to be in the official languages of NZ. The official languages in New Zealand are our first line of defence for each one of us to be fully informed to enable us to make a consented decision about our choices and for our communities to be able to have healthy outcomes. This decision is currently left to each one of the 20 DHBs to decide whether to put out public health information and alerts in official languages or not. This petition is to update the Health Act to make it compulsory for each DHB to have all public health information and alerts in New Zealand's official languages. If it's important enough to say it in English, then it's important enough to say it in our official languages. Ki te whai mana te reo Pākehā me whai mana anō ō tātou reo ōkawa.

To: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Hon Phil Twyford, Hon Megan Woods, Hon James Shaw,, Hon Kelvin Davis, Hon Peeni Henare, Hon Shane Jones, Hon Julie Anne Genter, Hon Aupito Sio, Hon Carmel Sepuloni, Hon David Parker, Hon David Clark, Hon Eugenie Sage, Hon Nanaia Mahuta Flying is far too cheap. If it cost more, people would fly less often. Aviation is currently under-taxed compared to other modes of transport. Many countries already levy an Aviation Tax - including Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Norway and most recently Sweden. Please impose an Aviation Tax in New Zealand on all flight tickets so that people who want to fly are paying what it actually costs in environmental terms, and so that these costs are not passed onto future generations. The cost of climate de-stabilisation is a much steeper price to pay than a few extra dollars now. The revenues "should be earmarked so as to most effectively guide environmental policy" toward cutting emissions. As virtually all other forms of transport are now taxed, the lack of an Aviation Tax amounts to a tax break or indirect subsidy for airlines. The fee should be variable and based on the climate impact of the flight.

Tēnā koutou to all candidates standing in Aotearoa’s General Election 2020, Together with leading children’s organisations running the Five to Thrive campaign, Barnardos, Te Kahui Mana Ririki, Save the Children New Zealand and Whānau Āwhina Plunket, we are calling on you to commit to getting the basics in place so that all children and tamariki in Aotearoa can thrive. You can do this through your party’s policies ahead of the General Election, and by committing to make change if you are a part of New Zealand’s next government. 2020 has been a year of enormous change for the people of Aotearoa New Zealand as we have joined together to respond to a global pandemic. The challenges already facing so many of our nation’s tamariki and whānau around inequity, poverty, poor housing and access to support services have been increased by the devastating effect of COVID-19 on New Zealand. As we work to recover in our communities and rebuild our nation, we are relying on our political leaders to put the children of Aotearoa at the heart of actions you will take to support us through this time of uncertainty and change. To have a prosperous and equitable society where we all do well, we must deliver on Te Tiriti o Waitangi for all whānau Māori and invest in our children’s early years and beyond. This Election, we are asking you to commit to five key asks to ensure all tamariki have the basics they need to thrive. We are asking that you commit to policies that focus on the following five areas, and take action on them if you are part of the next government of Aotearoa New Zealand: 1. Realise the potential of whānau Māori – the promise of Te Tiriti o Waitangi is yet to be delivered resulting inequitable outcomes for Maori across education, health, justice, and housing 2. Invest in children’s early years – the first 1000 days of a child’s life are critical and impact the rest of their lives 3. Lift children and families out of poverty – 20% of our children in New Zealand continue to live in poverty 4. An affordable and healthy home for every child – around 30,000 children are hospitalised every year due to an unhealthy housing environment 5. Mental health support for every child and new parent – New Zealand has unacceptably high rates of youth suicide and suicide is the leading cause of death of our pregnant mothers. I support #FiveToThrive and am asking you to join me and publicly get behind this important campaign for our tamariki. Please share how you and your party will commit to our children on these five asks and share this campaign with your followers in the lead up to Election 2020. If you are a part of the government after the Election, please, commit to doing all you can to get the #FiveToThrive basics right for all children and tamariki in Aotearoa. They and their families and whānau will thank you for it now, and future generations will thank you, too. Nāku iti noa, nā

As a country, we value compassion and kindness, but our welfare system is letting us down. Low wages, high rents, and successive governments gutting our welfare system has left hundreds of thousands of people in Aotearoa trapped in poverty. We, the undersigned, are calling on the House of Representatives to make the following changes that put children and whānau wellbeing at the heart of welfare: 1. Substantially improving core benefits; 2. Removing all sanctions; 3. Ensuring that all benefits and all part of Working for Families (WFF) are indexed annually to prices and wages; 4. Removing the hours of paid work criteria from the WFF In-Work Tax Credit and extending it to all low-income families; 5. Treating adults in the benefit system as individuals without penalising them for being in a partnership; 6. Ensuring that all applicants to WINZ receive all the assistance to which they are entitled.

Dear Prime Minister, please ban pokies. They are harming our whānau and directly contributing to poverty across our country. You've said that reducing child poverty is the reason you got into politics, and have taken on specific responsibility for this as the Minister for Child Poverty reduction. Your government has committed to setting bold goals for reducing poverty, and has identified a range of policies that would help to do this. One simple step you could take which would immediately reduce whānau poverty would be to ban pokie machines in New Zealand. Please take a stand to protect families from predatory gambling businesses, and ban pokies.

To immediately suspend Rocket Lab launches of military payloads which contribute to the militarisation of Space and ongoing warfare on Earth. This petition asks the Government to refuse consent for Space industry activities which contribute to organised international warfare and the weaponisation of Space.

Dear Ministers, we ask you to add a policy to the Educational Council Codes and Standards that says all teachers must be trained in, and practice in their classrooms a mental health skills programme. We suggest adding the policy to the standard of Teaching which says teachers must: “Teach and respond to learners in a knowledgeable and adaptive way to progress their learning at an appropriate depth and pace.” We also ask you to add a policy that makes a mental health skills programme compulsory in the New Zealand curriculum. It is to be taught in the Health and Physical Education sector. We also believe that the government should subsidise the programme training for all teachers. We suggest that the Ministry of Education approve certain mental health skills training programmes which align with the New Zealand curriculum and schools can then choose which programme they would like to take on board.

Recently, Housing New Zealand and KiwiBuild merged to become Kāinga Ora - the new public landlord for all of New Zealand’s state housing. Kāinga Ora is currently requesting proposals from people who make home sensors, so that they can begin to install sensors in state homes - starting with a trial across homes in Palmerston North and the Hutt Valley. Home sensors can be a great tool for knowing the temperature, humidity and electricity use in your home and whether something like dampness or cold could be making you sick. At Whare Hauora, we make home health sensors accessible to vulnerable families across New Zealand so we understand how they work and the power home health data holds. The problem is, Kāinga Ora wants to measure a lot of personal things inside their tenant’s homes - like private things we don’t think it’s ethical to measure - with no guarantee the information won’t be used against the tenants. And if that’s not bad enough, Kāinga Ora will own each family’s data, and won’t make it available to be seen by families themselves. If this seems dodgy to you, please add your name to our open letter demanding Kāinga Ora scrap their home sensors project and start again with better ethics, engagement and transparency. [Please note while Whare Hauora makes home sensors ourselves, all data is owned by the families who use them and we are not in competition for any Kāinga Ora contract due to such fundamental differences in data ethics and transparency]

We support survivors call for the Government to: 1. Set up, under statute, an independent state entity to address the on-going abuse crisis in New Zealand with the authority to receive and investigate complaints of abuse from survivors and others, refer for prosecutions where appropriate, access records, determine appropriate redress that is consistent and reflects the seriousness of the abuse that has happened and the harm it has caused regardless of the institution responsible for their care, and require it to be provided. 2. Immediately provide urgent access to appropriate financial and other resources for all survivors of historical and recent abuse in care in New Zealand require for their recovery, rehabilitation, restoration of mana and remaining life potential.