Submission

Wise Response has submitted to the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment’s Conduct of Financial Services review.   The submission is available as a PDF: Wise_Response_Submission_on_Conduction_of_Financial_Institutions_2019   A summary of the submission is available on the Carbon News site: Company directors should have a duty of care to the environment DIRECTORS should bear as much …

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The final submission to Treasury on the Living Standard Series is available here as a PDF: Wise Response Soc Submission to Treasury on Risk and Resilience for Future Wellbeing Final

Wise Response has made a submission to the Review of New Zealand’s Taxation System. The submission is available as a PDF (1MB) here:  Tax Working Group – Wise Response Submission Final  

Wise Response Submission to the Social Services and Community Select Committee on the Child Poverty Reduction Bill. 2 May, 2018   BACKGROUND: Wise Response is a Dunedin-based but New Zealand-wide Society www.wiseresponse.org.nz , launched in 2013, with the purpose of persuading the New Zealand Parliament, Government and New Zealand society in general, to confront and …

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Dear Prime Minister, This is an Open Letter with reference to the statement ascribed to you under the heading: “Science key to climate” (ODT, March 23), in which you are quoted from your address to the Platinum Primary Producers annual conference in Wellington, that “The world is going to heat up if it’s [climate change] …

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In November 2015, Wise Response appeared before 3 ORC commissioners to make a case for much more realistic recognition of the implications of resource limits in the Plan under the “precautionary approach” which is a requirement in the National Coastal Policy Statement. Eight expert witnesses appeared for the Society addressing different threats to the business-as-usual …

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