by Wendy McGuinness | Aug 18, 2014 | Project CivicsNZ
This is the first in series of blogs looking at voter engagement in the run up to the 2014 National Election next month. Our first focus is the online voter questionnaire On the Fence, launched at Massey University, Wellington on Friday, 8 August. Since then it has...
by Wendy McGuinness | Mar 5, 2014 | Project CivicsNZ
Kieran Stowers, one of the EmpowerNZ participants and a designer at both the LongTermNZ and LivingStandardsNZ workshops, has done a simply amazing job combining design, food and a constitutional conversation. I went to the opening of the exhibition of the 2013 Masters...
by Wendy McGuinness | Aug 28, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
A year ago today 50 participants, supported by 8 facilitators and 10 speakers, gathered at parliament and began drafting a constitution for New Zealand ‘fit for the 21st century’. At the completion of this ambitious exercise, the 50 participants became...
by Wendy McGuinness | Aug 15, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
I am very pleased (and relieved) to announce the Institute’s submission to the Constitutional Advisory Panel is now on the website. It has been a big piece of work – starting at StrategyNZ in 2011, developing into EmpowerNZ in late August 2012 and...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 19, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
The window for submitting on the current constitutional review comes to an end this month, so we thought it might be timely to let you know that we are now preparing and co-ordinating submissions both from (A) the Institute and from (B) the EmpowerNZ participants (the...
by admin | Jul 8, 2013 | Project CivicsNZ
Last week the Institute had the pleasure of providing twenty EmpowerNZ participants with a space (and a large jar of jelly beans) so that they could work together to draft a submission to the Constitutional Advisory Panel (CAP). Supported by Mihiata Pirini and Marcelo...
