Sign this petition by Sunday 8 April to tell Councillors the one-way system and all wheel cruise way trial at the Mount should go ahead.

Justice Minister, Andrew Little is convening the first substantial Justice Summit, Hapaitia Te Oranga Tangata, and review of the justice system for 30 years. This is a great opportunity for NZ to address the criminal abuse of children in institutions, including those in churches. It is a significant part of the ‘broken justice system’ Minister Little says we must ‘have the guts to look at honestly’ so ‘we can have safer Kiwi communities’. We are extremely concerned many institutional abuse survivors will be denied justice again if they aren’t included in the Royal Commission. This will also limit the possibility of preventing the criminal abuse of children in the future. Send an email now to ask Minister Little to make the Inquiry inclusive, to seek justice and take the opportunity to prevent future abuse in institutions in NZ.

To find a way to reinstate the health funding commitment of over 30 years to Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective at the same level (as a minimum), that will soon be lost due to a recent decision by the MidCentral District Health Board.

Dear Minister Hipkins, As changes to the Teaching Council’s certification process come into effect on February 1, 2021, the damage to teachers becomes a reality. We, the undersigned, urge you to intervene to stop this harm. We ask you to: 1. Reverse the fees increases that came into effect on February 1st 2021 and develop a fair funding model for the Teaching Council The fees are increasing by more than 100 percent. They are blanket fees which hit our most vulnerable teachers hardest – beginning teachers, part-time teachers, relief teachers, itinerant music teachers, and teachers who have financial commitments to their whānau and communities. 2. Remove the requirement for annual certification The Teaching Council has also announced that teachers will need to be re-certified every year rather than every three years. This is a low-trust model that creates unnecessary workload for principals and teachers. 3. Change the Teaching Council legislation so that it focusses on fulfilling its core functions efficiently We agree that teachers should be registered and held to high professional standards. However, the Teaching Council has expanded its remit into areas of professional development and leadership. As a result, teachers are required to pay increased fees for services they neither requested nor desire. Teachers are also experiencing frustratingly long delays in having their registration and/or certification fulfilled. Confirmation of registration/certification is in some cases taking months to arrive; an issue which is becoming increasingly nerve-wracking for teachers who are still waiting for the certification as the year begins. They cannot legally be employed without it. Changing the legislation to limit the Teaching Council to its core functions is a matter of fairness. If teachers must pay for their own registration and certification, they should not therefore be required to cover the costs of any and all activities that the Teaching Council undertakes.

We ask that the Whangarei District Council reject the Zodiac Holdings Limited application to construct and operate a mineral water bottling plant on Lot 1 DP 482474, at 649 Mangakahia Road, Whangarei. We oppose any risk from commercial operations that threatens the pristine aquifer.

We are asking that the House of Representatives urgently stop the National Library from sending overseas published books from its collection to the Philippines, require it to publicly consult about the best way of preserving, managing and offering these books to the public. We believe this has been decided without enough consideration, and that these books are of universal interest and are a historical part of the National Library of New Zealand. Most of the Overseas Published Books Collection, featuring over 600,000 books from many countries, will soon leave our country, to go to the Philippines where they may be digitized by Internet Archive. The Library has already disposed of many of these overseas published books and we believe none will ever come back again.

We, Kyle MacDonald - Psychotherapist and Mike King - Suicide Prevention Ambassador, ask Facebook to urgently review its Community Standards and their implementation, to no longer allow the posting of videos or links to videos, of people completing suicide. Recent events have shown that Facebook are unwilling to block such videos or links and we are concerned that the viewing of such videos, apart from being horrifying and disturbing, can increase the likelihood of others taking their own lives.

We call upon the Health Select Committee to replace section 13C to delete the complicated process for designating a safe area, and instead add language to create safe areas around all places where abortions are provided from assent.

Stopping and preventing forced marriage is a community responsibility. We want members of the community, civil society organisations, marriage celebrants, educational institutions, government agencies and religious organisations and leaders to pledge a commitment to ending forced and under-age marriage in communities living in Aotearoa. If someone is at risk or in a forced marriage, take action and refuse to be a by-stander. You can support them to get help so they can acess safety by contacting relevant agencies and organisations like Shakti (0800 SHAKTI). If you are marriage celebrant, make sure to screen the marriage for free and informed consent before conducting a ceremony. By signing this pledge you or your organisation commits to supporting the end of forced marriage in New Zealand.

As the world is beginning to realise that our current lifestyle isn’t quite the best for our own health and for our environment, microfiber pollution has become an untalked about issue currently happening on our planet, where more than 5.35 trillion microfiber particles shedded from synthetic clothing is in our oceans. How do they get there? Our washing machines! Microfibers being shed from synthetic garments are able to make their way from washing machines, travel through drains and end up in waterways. By signing this pledge, we would like people to support action on eradicating microfibers from New Zealand to protect our rivers, oceans and environment.