Citizenship

UnitedFuture's Citizenship policy may be downloaded at the bottom of the page.

It is UnitedFuture policy to:

  • Ensure that school pupils understand their civic rights and responsibilities, the structure of the New Zealand Parliament and of Local Government and their means of access to them.
  • Nationally televise the Youth Parliament to give credence to the efforts of young people to lift the bar.
  • Require immigrants to take a civics course as part of becoming a New Zealand citizen, to promote civics understanding and teach immigrants what it is to be a “Kiwi” & what the norms & expectations of New Zealand society are.
  • Introduce a graded system towards citizenship to develop the idea that citizenship is a privilege and not a right.

Purposeful Democracy

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Hon Peter Dunne on the tax debate

Opening Statement to Parliament – 9 February 2010

I will concentrate my remarks this afternoon on the Tax Working Group, on some of the changes it has recommended, and on some of the changes that will flow from those changes...

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