Policy papers, reports and submissions

This page contains our our policy papers and reports, covering the building the constitution conference, Youth Parliament reports for 2000 and 2004. This section will expand over time. You can find our principle Policy Statement here.

Submissions

• Submission to the Justice and Electoral Select Committee regarding the Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Bill (November 2010)
  
• Submission to the Government Administration Select Committee regarding the Governor-General Bill (August 2010).
  
• Submission to the Ministerial Action Group on the Holidays Act 2003 (August 2009)
• Submission to the Law Commission on the Civil List Act 1979 (September 2008)
• Submission to UnitedFuture regarding "Stepping Forward" (April 2008)
• Submission to the Human Rights Commission on Draft Race Relations Statement (February 2008).

Reports

• The Youth Parliament again established a select committee to investigate the establishment of a New Zealand republic. Their report shows that a majority of the committee was in favour of a republic, but only wanted to change New Zealand's constitution slowly (August 2004).
• The Youth Parliament established a select committee to investigate the establishment of a New Zealand republic. Their report shows that the committee was split evenly over whether New Zealand should become a republic, but agreed that further work should be done on the role of treaty and that the issue should be decided by a two-stage referendum -- similar to that used for MMP (August 2000).
  

Policy Papers

• Our paper to the Building the Constitution conference , written by Dave Guerin, outlining why we should have a republic, why we should do it now and how we should do it. (April 2000)
• Dean Knight's paper to the Reconstituting the Constitution conference, outlining a "soft republic" approach to becoming a republic (September 2010) - see also Dr Michael Cullen's paper to the same conference.