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    • Summary Offences (Move-on Orders) Amendment Bill

      Summary • The Salvation Army Te Ope Whakaora strongly opposes this bill in its entirety. The bill is an unnecessary extension of Police powers and will increase harm to people experiencing homelessness. • Instead of further progressing this bill, we urge the government to focus on resourcing the proven and...

    • Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the guiding light

      Think Piece by Charm Skinner, Te Ao Māori Policy Analyst    Aotearoa. Land of the long white cloud. A country celebrated internationally as clean, green and progressive. Yet when it comes to our founding constitutional document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, things become murky and misconceptions start to distort our international...

    • Submission to the Finance and Expenditure Committee

      Main points The Salvation Army Te Ope Whakaora strongly opposes this Bill and asks that the Select Committee recommend that Parliament does not proceed with this legislation because: Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash

    • Submission on the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill

      The Salvation Army Te Ope Whakaora strongly supports Te Tiriti and opposes this Bill that is inconsistent with Te Tiriti. We ask that the Select Committee recommend that Parliament does not proceed with this legislation.
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      Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Rangitiratanga and Democracy

      In Aotearoa we are proud of our democracy—the idea of ‘one person one vote’. It is the very essence of an equal and fair society. For the most part it is good but, as Winston Churchill once said, ‘democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other...
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      Review of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (MOJ)

      The Salvation Army supports the recommendations made by the Law Commission for the Search and Surveillance Act. We do however recommend that under the law commission’s recommendations for Policy Statements that these policy statements include reference to the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the exercising of its powers...