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Our mission is to foster the improvement of New Zealand's democratic system and encourage the use of direct democracy through the

Veto, Citizens' Initiated and Recall referendum.

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Monday, 9 July 2012

I give up! I'm going fishing and travelling. We battle for years on the important issue of binding referendums and real democracy, struggling to publicity and exposure for a worthy cause, yet some woman who wants a biscuit for her husband makes the front page of a major newspaper and has 1500 'like' on Facebook in next to no time. I guess biscuits are more important than democracy to New Zealanders. Thank you to those of you who have helped over the years and contributed. Cheers, Steve.

Posted by Steve Baron

2 comments:

Miles said...

hi Steve
Over the years, many people write and write and write about important issues. Some even write to the papers. I have observed all that activity realising that it makes very little headway. There are think-tanks all over the world doing the same thing. I have similarly been tempted to write but resisted. I believe that like any product it must be marketed to the audience. That means setting up a marketing chain that has an incentive to go and sell. That is the key. In due course, I want to set up an organisation partly comprising all the nz think-tanks to assist with the research to feed to sales people. So please keep going.

10 July 2012 at 13:59:00 GMT+12
Beef-Hooked said...

Good onya Steve, kudos for the site, the trick is to be able to do both. I simply stopped buying chocolate biscuits, thus I could afford to retire to a beach in 1988

15 July 2012 at 11:40:00 GMT+12

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