Clear answers needed

Our local parliamentary representatives have shown that they have influenced important government investments in health etc. They do not inform us, however, that they are dealing with the numerous other most unsatisfactory developments in our clearly eroding democracy.

Voters must request clear answers from Messrs Bridges and Muller to the following:

  1. Why have we not been given information following the MMP referendum and what steps are proposed to deliver in accordance with voters' directive?
  2. What steps do our representatives believe should be taken to end the promotion of Maori influence by un-elected appointees to councils and commissions? Co-governance is unacceptable.
  3. We have not seen any audit of the huge tribal settlement funds. We still see many signs that the chiefs are doing very well and at the same time health, housing and English education are continuing to be a major problem.
  4. It is time that voters were assured that the numerous charities are operating fully within the law and complying with a comprehensive taxation test.
  5. The Waitangi Tribunal performance continues to irritate voters and does not serve our 2017 democracy. How can their appointments and deliberations be justified?
  6. When can voters expect official government advice that the move to rewrite our constitution has been abandoned?
  7. Crown ownership of the total coastline must be very clearly established by law.

J Goddard, Bethlehem.

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