PEP Partner, John Pennington, has article about localism in the May 2019 volume of the NZ Local Government Magazine. If the image of it above isn’t readable, it’s available here – it’s free to get a log in if you don’t already have one.
No one blinked in the mainstream media when the Government announced that there would not be a Citizens’ Assembly in the lead up to New Zealand’s recreational cannabis referendum in 2020. This despite well-known problems with referenda and the success of initiatives such as the Irish Citizens’ Assembly and Oregon’s Citizen Initiative Review Commission as…