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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Public Address</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/</link> <atom:link rel="self" href="https://publicaddress.net/all.rss" type="application/rss+xml"/> <description><![CDATA[Public Address. A community of blogs]]></description> <language>en</language> <copyright>Copyright (c) 2002-2024 Public Address</copyright> <item> <title>Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/election-23-the-special-votes/</link> <pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 12:45:00 +1300</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/election-23-the-special-votes/</guid> <dc:creator>Graeme Edgeler</dc:creator> <author>Graeme Edgeler</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>The 2023 General Election has a preliminary result.<br />The preliminary result is mostly meaningless from a legal standpoint, but we don’t want to wait two weeks to hear some number, so we get a rough and ready count of the ordinary votes: those cast by people whose name appears on the printed electoral roll who voted at a voting place designated for their electorate (including during advance voting).<br />The official count is still to happen. They’re more careful with that, and there's a lot of cross-checking. For those who enrolled on the day or just before, they do all the…</p>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Legal Beagle: The Entrenchment Angle We All Missed</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/the-entrenchment-angle-we-all-missed/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:00:00 +1300</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/the-entrenchment-angle-we-all-missed/</guid> <dc:creator>Graeme Edgeler</dc:creator> <author>Graeme Edgeler</author> <description><![CDATA[I have a basically finished 800-word article on the entrenchment issue that is now unneeded. Dean Knight’s tweets, my tweets, and the open letter of the group of legal academics published by the New Zealand Herald say almost all that needs to be said on the manner in which the House – hopefully briefly – attempted to entrench parts of the Water Services Entities Bill: in short, advancing a proposal on Monday, and voting on it on Wednesday, is not the way to go about this, however important the issue is: it undermines the moral force of entrenchment, and risked damage to…]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Legal Beagle: Draft submission on the Māori Electoral Option bill</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/draft-submission-on-the-maori-electoral-option/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:20:00 +1200</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/draft-submission-on-the-maori-electoral-option/</guid> <dc:creator>Graeme Edgeler</dc:creator> <author>Graeme Edgeler</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>I have prepared the following (draft) submission on the Electoral (Māori Electoral Option) Legislation Bill, which you all have until Saturday to submit on. Happy to consider comments, or to fix typos: have I used the word whakapapa incorrectly, etc? Please let me know :-)<br />======<br />The Justice Committee<br />Electoral (Māori Electoral Option) Legislation Bill<br />Submission of Graeme Edgeler<br />1. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Electoral (Māori Electoral Option) Legislation Bill.<br />2. I recognise that the policy questions raised by the bill can be fraught, and that there are theoretical arguments around election fairness that argue…</p>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Hard News: 60</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/60-1/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 08:26:00 +1200</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/60-1/</guid> <dc:creator>Russell Brown</dc:creator> <author>Russell Brown</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>Tomorrow, I will be 60 years old. It’s the impossibly distant age at which people used to retire with a pension and a mortgage-free house. It's okay. I've been thinking of myself as basically there for a while now – and the same thing appears to be happening to some of my dearest friends.<br />Technically, you could make a case for us as both boomers and Gen Xers, but we're not quite either. We’re a generation that grew up with the state providing. I still have a faint mental image of crates of school milk arriving to sit warming in the…</p>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Hard News: Closing off a complaint</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/closing-off-a-complaint/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:52:00 +1200</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/closing-off-a-complaint/</guid> <dc:creator>Russell Brown</dc:creator> <author>Russell Brown</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>You might recall that on April 19 and 20 this year, RNZ published and broadcast a series of reports – beginning with this one – that claimed the government had not followed Ministry of Health advice to end the MIQ system in November 2021.<br />The coverage was based on a misleading interpretation of an internal memo, which assuredly did not call for MIQ to be ended in November, and it repeatedly omitted key events and details in pursuing its case.<br />I was critical of this reporting on social media and was eventually approached by RNZ to submit a complaint via its formal…</p>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Access: Me and my disabled body</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/access/me-and-my-disabled-body-1/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:09:00 +1200</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/access/me-and-my-disabled-body-1/</guid> <dc:creator> Shel Walmsley</dc:creator> <author> Shel Walmsley</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>This Disability Pride Month I am reflecting on the complicated identity of disability for those of us with physical disabilities.<br />I am often “reminded” by those inside and outside the disability community that having a disability is only made difficult by the people around us, by ableism, by discrimination, by lack of accessibility. This can be a useful sentiment that highlights how our lives are so often made so much more difficult by others. For many of us, it is also a lie.<br />This Disability Pride Month, I would like to suggest that it’s ok to talk about our bodies…</p>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Legal Beagle: The local bill to remove equal suffrage</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/the-local-bill-to-remove-equal-suffrage/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +1200</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/the-local-bill-to-remove-equal-suffrage/</guid> <dc:creator>Graeme Edgeler</dc:creator> <author>Graeme Edgeler</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>There are four types of bills that Parliament considers: most bills are government bills, but there are also members bills, private bills and local bills. Members bills are relatively well know (some important ones have passed over the last few years), but these latter three types are often grouped together. On the days that the House considers members bills (every second Wednesday that it meets), it considers local bills and private bills first.<br />Private bills are law changes advanced to change the law for the benefit of a particular person or body. Recent private bills that have become Private Acts…</p>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Hard News: New Drug Harm Index, new problems</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/new-drug-harm-index-new-problems/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:00:00 +1300</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/new-drug-harm-index-new-problems/</guid> <dc:creator>Russell Brown</dc:creator> <author>Russell Brown</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>The New Zealand Drug Harm Index 2020 just made it into 2021: it was quietly posted on the Ministry of Health website before Christmas. And it contains some startling claims. Not the least of them, that cannabis is New Zealand's most harmful drug – accounting for $626 million in "community harm" every year. Would you be surprised if I told you more than a third of that was lost GST?<br />Well, it is: the authors of the index estimate the public purse loses $224 million a year because tax can't be paid on revenue or personal income from producing or selling…</p>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Legal Beagle: A submission on the repeal of the three strikes sentencing law</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/a-submission-on-the-repeal-of-the-three-strikes/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 18:45:00 +1300</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/a-submission-on-the-repeal-of-the-three-strikes/</guid> <dc:creator>Graeme Edgeler</dc:creator> <author>Graeme Edgeler</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>Just sent the following submission in on the law repealing the three strikes sentencing regime.<br />You have until midnight tonight if you want your say.<br />==<br />The Justice Committee<br />Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill<br />Submission of Graeme Edgeler<br />Introduction</p><p>This submission is made by Graeme Edgeler. I am a barrister with an interest in criminal law issues.<br />I support the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill, and welcome the opportunity to comment on it.</p><p>Repeal of Life without Parole</p><p>While I support the bill, it is somewhat of a missed opportunity, as it does not repeal all the law changes made…</p>]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Hard News: Medicinal cannabis: 2022 will be a better year</title> <link>https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/medicinal-cannabis-2022-will-be-a-better/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 10:56:00 +1300</pubDate> <guid>https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/medicinal-cannabis-2022-will-be-a-better/</guid> <dc:creator>Russell Brown</dc:creator> <author>Russell Brown</author> <description><![CDATA[<p>The year we are about to depart has been a frustrating one for the New Zealand medicinal cannabis community.<br />A cluster of companies established to produce and distrubute legal cannabis products ran up against a regulatory scheme that sometimes seemed unworkable and informal growers and green fairies struggled to see a place for themselves after the narrow failure of last year's cannabis legalisation referendum. Patients faced products disappearing from the shelves or seized at the border. A strengthened sense of common cause was probably the best thing to come out of the year.<br />Happily, a series of recent developments – most…</p>]]></description> </item> </channel></rss> 
