We the undersigned ask you to withdraw plans to extend the Martha open pit mine under Waihi.

Join our call asking the House of Representatives to ensure the Ministry for Disabled people is led and run by disabled people, to ensure disabled people are in leadership roles and their rights are upheld. Nothing about us without us!

Dear Hon. Andrew Little, We are calling on the Government to enshrine voting rights for all people who are incarcerated. In 2010 National MP Paul Quinn introduced a Member’s Bill to Parliament that saw the complete removal of voting rights for prisoners, regardless of how long the sentence. Since then, the Supreme Court has upheld the High Court’s ruling that limiting the right to vote for prisoners is a breach of the Bill of Rights, section 12(a). Voting must belong to all of us for the health of our democracy, and removing basic rights should never be used as a means to punish people. We are proud of Aotearoa New Zealand’s history - where people have successfully campaigned for the right to vote for all Māori and women. That legacy should not be thrown away lightly. That's why we are calling on the Government to amend the Electoral Act of 1993 and ensure that all New Zealanders are able to determine who represents them, and who makes the laws that govern them.

We are a group of people living with severe Long Covid and/or ME/CFS in Aotearoa, New Zealand and abroad, who have come together to write a letter to the Ministry of Health Manatū Hauora, Hospital and Primary-Care Leadership, and those in the government responsible for public health decisions in  Aotearoa New Zealand, calling for the urgent reinstatement of basic airborne-infection-control measures (N95 masking & clean air) in all healthcare settings across the country. SARS-CoV-2  continues to ravage our community, creating an ongoing mass disability event. We aim to target a key place of transmission to the most vulnerable members of the community, preventing unnecessary illness, disability, and death across patients and staff. Please read our letter below: Read the full letter here We welcome anyone to sign who values protecting the health of our community, especially those in healthcare.

Tēnā kōrua Minister Stanford and Minister Brown Children are our most precious taonga. We send our children to school to learn, not to come home sick. We need action to prevent the spread of Covid in our schools and early childhood education centres.  We call on the government to prevent the spread of Covid in New Zealand schools by: • Ensuring each school and ECE can monitor air quality • Supplying technology to clean the air and reduce viral load • Granting access to all New Zealanders 6 months and older, to up-to-date vaccines, regular boosters and antivirals • Reintroducing free Rapid Antigen Tests • Providing extra sick leave for teachers, school support staff, including teacher aides, and caregivers • Recognising Long Covid as an occupational hazard for educators • Recognising and better supporting children and educators with Long Covid through more research into its effects, diagnosis, and treatment.

Dear Simon Power (CEO, TVNZ), New Zealanders demand better from our public broadcaster. We demand that TVNZ pull the FBoy Island NZ show immediately. Why? Because it normalises and champions predatory and dangerous sexual behaviour that harms people, particularly young people. In July this year, Project Gender released our research results on the state of online dating and sex in Aotearoa. We ran a nationwide survey and heard from over 830 New Zealanders about their experiences with people they had met on a dating app. Many of the results were concerning, in particular: - 30% - nearly one third - of the people we heard from had been choked/suffocated during consensual sex in the past 12 months - This rose to 43% when we looked just at those aged under 30 - Slightly under half (47%) of those that had been choked/suffocated said it happened without their consent at least once Let’s talk a bit more about what our research told us about consent during sex. 29% of those who had been on dates in the past 12 months had been pressured into doing something sexual they weren’t comfortable with. Most commonly, this occurred by the other person: “Wearing you down by repeatedly asking you to do it” “Making promises about the future of your relationship” “Suggesting that you’re boring i.e. “vanilla”, prudish” “Being unhappy and moody unless you agreed to do it” We have shared Project Gender’s research with sexual violence advocates and researchers, and together we’re working (most of us pro bono) to try and address the psychological and physical safety risks that these results highlight. Part of the solution, we all agree, is consent law reform and education about what healthy, positive sexual activity looks like, which especially targets our rangatahi. Your decision, as our state broadcaster, to air in the coming weeks a reality TV show called FBoy Island NZ is not only disappointing, it is dangerous. In your show, 20 young men vie for the attention of three women who must decide if they are “nice guys” or “Fboys”, meaning men who act as if they’re entitled to sexual encounters and who often use manipulation in order to have sex with women. Not to put too fine a point on it, you’re essentially gamifying predatory sexual behaviour. Unsurprisingly, an abuser has been found among the line up of FBoys who made it through the auditions: the Herald on Sunday just broke the news that one of the men who was going to star in the show “appeared in court last year charged with suffocating a woman he admitted to police he lured to his home because she was drunk and he hoped to have sex with her”.

WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Bill sponsor Judith Collins must Extend the Say on their Gene Technology Bill by granting at least 90 additional days for public comment. This Bill—which combines sweeping changes to our Non-GM pasture -based agriculture system with unprecedented  “emergency” medical powers—was rushed out on the last day of Parliament, leaving Kiwis virtually no chance to understand or debate its potentially massive consequences and now they seek to close public comment on 17th of February.

We call on you to urgently withdraw permission for a pipeline to be laid through a sanctuary that is home to New Zealand's rarest kiwi, the Haast Tokoeka by Mount Aspiring National Park. There's just over 400 Haast Tokoeka left in Aotearoa. The Department of Conservation (DoC) says its status is "Nationally Critical", and 33 of them are believed to live near where the pipeline is to be laid.

Reducing the nicotine in cigarettes will save lives. Sign this petition to tell our government there's no more time to waste. By introducing legislation to reduce nicotine to non-addictive levels, we can support our loved ones to quit smoking and prevent our rangatahi from becoming addicted to this deadly habit.

In response to COVID-19, the Government should implement a Universal Education Income / Te Rourou Matanui-a-Wānanga. A weekly payment available to all domestic students (part time and full time) would enable students to continue studying during the COVID-19 crisis. It would enable education and training to be a viable option for New Zealanders in the reset of our economy, post COVID-19. A Universal Education Income / Te Rourou Matanui-a-Wānanga is the only solution to the issues that students are facing in light of COVID-19.