NZ Registered Political Parties — Direct Democracy / CIR Policy Positions New Zealand Registered Political Parties — Policy Position on Direct Democracy & Citizens Initiated Referenda (CIR) Compiled 14 July 2026, from the Electoral Commission register and each party’s own published material. ✓ = clear, current, published policy supporting CIR / binding direct democracy …
Conservation Amendment Bill 2026 Decided by politicians, not voters What happened This legislation rewrites the core purpose of the Conservation Act 1987, shifting the focus from “preservation and protection” to allowing “sustainable economic and community use” across 8.5 million hectares of public conservation land. It streamlines approval processes, loosens rules for land transfers, and creates…
First, two simple truths to stick on your fridge: ✅ “The Government” = a small group of people sitting in Wellington, who collect money from taxpayers and spend it as they choose. ✅ Democracy = The Rule of the People. And let’s be 100% clear: the Government never spends its own money. It only spends…
For too long, the critical decisions that shape our everyday lives have been treated like a game of tug-of-war in Wellington. Top-down political mandates struggle to address the vast realities of our actual neighborhoods. We believe that true democracy means experts provide the evidence, but the community holds the power to decide. And we are…
When we talk about the future of how our country is governed, the conversation usually centers on Parliament. We focus on which politicians are in power, which policies are being mandated from the top, and how bureaucratic gridlock stalls progress. But true democracy shouldn’t be a spectator sport where we tick a box once every…
The system has several fundamental structures, each with many subsystems. This is to manage many different Systems, Entities, Proposals, People, Processes, Organizations, Blogs, Sortitions, Votes, Meetings, Conferences, Initiatives, Information Sources, Administrators, Debates, Pages, Budgets, Accountability Frameworks. It is basically designed to replicate, in a far more manageable, organised and tangible fashion, the Town Hall meetings…
A hub is an entity that uses our democracy software for its own purposes. A hub enables a group of people, from a small community group all the way up to many millions in size, to manage it’s own decisions democratically and fairly. A hub could represent all the people of a given area or…
Today we begin platform availability for democratic decision making across New Zealand. We aren’t coming with a magic solution. There’s no immediate solution to New Zealand’s governance issues, because the only long term solution to those issues, is to give people the power instead of just a few. That will not happen quickly. This is…
Democracy, at its core, is a system built upon the principle of informed consent. Citizens, through the process of voting, collectively decide the direction of their society. This process hinges on the ability of each individual to form their own opinions, based on available information, and express them through their vote. However, the relationship between personal opinion and democracy is complex and often misunderstood.
We asked AI the following question: has there ever been a politician elected who promised to hand over all the power to the people and got elected on that basis and then actually did hand the power over to the people?
