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The Council strongly opposes this move-on orders bill. This bill limits seven BORA rights, property rights, our right to be healthy, and interferes with the proper functioning of government. Against these many and serious losses of liberty this bill proposes to control what at worst is a nuisance. Keep reading “Submission: Summary Offences (Move-on Orders) Amendment Bill”
This bill adds definitions of man, woman, male, and female to the Legislation Act 2019. These definitions are reductionist and based on a simplistic view of both human nature and biology. Keep reading “Submission: Legislation (Definition of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill”
Thanks to our NZCCL/VUW Law essay prize winner Jessica Ye for taking the time to present her essay and answer questions in our webinar. This was recorded and is now available online. Keep reading “Essay prize webinar now online”
The Council opposes the Prisoners and Property bill as it places unjustified and disproportionate limits on our rights to be healthy, to justice, and to freedom of association. Keep reading “Submission: Corrections (Management of Prisoners, and Prisoners’ Property) Amendment Bill”
Recently we received an intriguing document from an independent researcher, Russell Opland, where he has given up on the prosect of improving the Official Information Act and has written a complete replacement called Te Ture Mana Puna Kōrero – The Right to Know Act. Keep reading “Right to Know Act – A replacement for the OIA?”
We are opposed to the arrest of people for not carrying proof of their right to live in New Zealand. Keep reading “Submission: Immigration (Enhanced Risk Management) Amendment Bill”
The Council strongly objects to the Policing Amendment Bill. This bill removes all limits on Police powers to record people’s activities. This bill enables police to break up any gathering, remove people from any location, and detain people on suspicion that they might return. The bill is yet another example of the government reacting to illegal Police behaviours by making them legal. Keep reading…
Come and hear 2025 NZCCL VUW Law Essay Prize winner Jessica Ye present her essay Rupturing the liberal grammar of ‘critical’ civil disobedience theories: Decolonial refusal of state recognition and affirmation of alternative lifeworlds. Keep reading “5th May 2026 – Webinar: Rupturing the liberal grammar of ‘critical’ civil disobedience theories”
The Council provided written feedback to the Government on the draft commitments and the draft fifth National Action Plan as a member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Keep reading “Open Government Partnership — Comments on draft commitments and draft 5th National Action Plan”
The Council opposes both bills, primarily for the same reasons as the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opposes: data will inevitably decline in quality, especially data about Māori, Pasifika, and other minorities. Keep reading “Submission: Data and Statistics (Census) and Electoral (District Boundaries) Amendment Bills”
