People Against Prisons Aotearoa
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A prison abolitionist organisation committed to building a fairer, safer, and more just Aotearoa.
People Against Prisons Aotearoa invites you to support us in calling on the Department of Corrections to give people in prisons appropriate clothing and hygienic supplies on Sunday 16 November from 1PM outside Auckland Region Womens Corrections Facility.
www.facebook.com/events/68706...
about 21 hours ago
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Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
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We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating to our Holiday Card Drive fundraiser here:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
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Send prisoners some holiday cheer!
Help the Prisoner Correspondence Network send holiday cards to hundreds of prisoners in Aotearoa.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-prisoners-some-holiday-cheer-2025
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4 days ago
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
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WhangÄrei friends & whÄnau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Saturday 22 November from 11am-1pm at WhangÄrei Central Library, 5 Rust Avenue, WhangÄrei.
www.facebook.com/events/12617...
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The Department of Corrections is failing to provide people basic necessities like hygenic bedding, underwear, socks, shoes and thermals. This is a breach of human rights and a failure to care for those in state care. Sign our petition:
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ge...
5 days ago
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Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
6 days ago
We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating to our Holiday Card Drive fundraiser here:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
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Send prisoners some holiday cheer!
Help the Prisoner Correspondence Network send holiday cards to hundreds of prisoners in Aotearoa.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-prisoners-some-holiday-cheer-2025
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Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
6 days ago
We invite you a to lino-print card making workshop to make cards to send to our incarcerated whanau for the holidays. All materials provided.
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6 days ago
PÅneke friends & whÄnau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Saturday 8 November from 1-4pm at Home Ground HQ, Newtown Park Apartments, 320 Mansfield Street.
www.facebook.com/events/37678...
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Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
7 days ago
We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating to our Holiday Card Drive fundraiser here:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
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Send prisoners some holiday cheer!
Help the Prisoner Correspondence Network send holiday cards to hundreds of prisoners in Aotearoa.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-prisoners-some-holiday-cheer-2025
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
7 days ago
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
7 days ago
WhangÄrei friends & whÄnau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Sunday 23 November from 1-4pm at ONEONESIX, 116a Bank Street, WhangÄrei.
www.facebook.com/events/81365...
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
9 days ago
We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating to our Holiday Card Drive fundraiser here:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
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Send prisoners some holiday cheer!
Help the Prisoner Correspondence Network send holiday cards to hundreds of prisoners in Aotearoa.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-prisoners-some-holiday-cheer-2025
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
9 days ago
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
9 days ago
PÅneke friends & whÄnau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Sunday 16 November from 1-6pm at Level 2, 57 Willis Street, Wellington (take the lift up to level 2).
www.facebook.com/events/13459...
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
10 days ago
We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating to our Holiday Card Drive fundraiser here:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
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Send prisoners some holiday cheer!
Help the Prisoner Correspondence Network send holiday cards to hundreds of prisoners in Aotearoa.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-prisoners-some-holiday-cheer-2025
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reposted by
People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
10 days ago
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
10 days ago
Åtepoti friends & whÄnau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Sunday 23 November from 1-4pm at the Fua Lelei Room, Catholic Social Services, 42 Macandrew Bay Road.
www.facebook.com/events/13638...
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
11 days ago
We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating to our Holiday Card Drive fundraiser here:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
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Send prisoners some holiday cheer!
Help the Prisoner Correspondence Network send holiday cards to hundreds of prisoners in Aotearoa.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-prisoners-some-holiday-cheer-2025
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reposted by
People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
11 days ago
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
11 days ago
Åtautahi friends & whÄnau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Saturday 22 November from 12-4pm at the Te WÄ, 74 Hawdon Street, Sydenham.
www.facebook.com/events/82962...
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
12 days ago
We are holding our 9th annual holiday card drive! Weāll be sending holiday cards to hundreds of incarcerated people. We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please donate to our fundraiser:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
12 days ago
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
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Kirikiriroa friends & whÄnau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Saturday 22 November from 1-4pm at the Waimarie: Hamilton East Community House, 53 Wellington Street.
www.facebook.com/events/80709...
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
12 days ago
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa
Prisoner Correspondence Network Aotearoa
12 days ago
TÄmaki Makaurau friends & whÄnau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Saturday 29 November from 12-4pm at the Chamber Room, Mt Eden War Memorial Hall, 489 Dominion Road.
www.facebook.com/events/31456...
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Please donate if you can to help
@peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social
pay legal fees, transport and the other costs to support over 35 of their members and supporters who have been arrested for engaging in peaceful direct action against the National Aerospace Summit.
chuffed.org/project/aero...
26 days ago
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The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture's statement demonstrates that the Waikeria and Paremoremo megaprisons must close, as they result in miscarriages of justice and human rights violations against MÄori and youth.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/u...
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UN torture committee warns Govt about rising prison population
The UNās warning about the countryās prison population comes on the heels of Treasuryās concerns about the associated ballooning costs.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/un-torture-committee-warns-govt-about-rising-prison-population/
28 days ago
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After multiple exposes of the Police violating our human rights and civil liberties, instead of reigning them in, the Government is enabling the Police to further intensify its capacity to spy on us. This will only end we disarm, defund and disband the Police.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Government moves to give police back more information-collecting powers
The amendments will also extend to letting police shut off more areas, not just roads, in an emergency or disorder.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575449/government-moves-to-give-police-back-more-information-collecting-powers
30 days ago
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We condemn police brutality against
@peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social
members and supporters who engaged in peaceful direct action to oppose NZ arms and aerospace companies' collaboration with the American military industrial complex and the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-1...
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Dozens of protesters arrested at Aerospace Summit in Christchurch
'We need to stop hiding behind this thin veneer of space exploration,' said one of the organisers. <br />
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-10-2025/dozens-of-protesters-arrested-at-aerospace-summit-in-christchurch
about 1 month ago
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Through AUKUS, a new FBI office in Wellington and now this new arms industry strategy, the Government is hell-bent on integrating Aotearoa into the American capitalist-imperialist war machine. This will only end when we de-link from the fascist USA.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Government unveils strategy for the defence industry
The plan will lift New Zealand's defence spending to more than 2 percent in the next eight years with the Defence Minister seeking to have New Zealand develop weapons for export.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574893/government-unveils-strategy-for-the-defence-industry
about 1 month ago
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From Rachel Mary Andrews (
www.instagram.com/p/DPUu7__k0-k/
): ""Do the crime. Do the time, " they say. Those naysayers, and climate deniers, and tough-on-crime right-wingers. And the ones who applaud the erosion of democracy until it impacts them."
about 1 month ago
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Corrections and this Government are failing in their duty to keep the people in their care safe. This is not a rehabilitative environment.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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'Corrections crisis': Assaults, double-bunking, inmate tallies hit record highs
Assaults are much more numerous than the last time prisoner numbers neared 10,900.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/tension-and-violence-prison-assaults-double-bunking-and-prison-population-hit-record-highs/PXHHSPWPNNB7VFSU2KOUGQFGRQ/
about 1 month ago
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While our government remains complicit in genocide, three New Zealanders, Rana, Samuel, and Youssef are risking everything for justice on the Global Sumud Flotilla. They are our whÄnau, and our government must make every effort to protect them.
about 1 month ago
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Auror, who work with the cops, are expanding surveillance capitalism here and violating our civil liberties through providing facial recognition technology to shops with minimal safeguards. This will only end when surveillance capitalism is abolished.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Stage set for much more facial recognition in shops
Auror's number-plate recognition technology is currently under legal scrutiny in the Wellington Court of Appeal.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573639/stage-set-for-much-more-facial-recognition-in-shops
about 2 months ago
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Police is using the surveillance capitalist Auror system to regularly violate our civil liberties. The cops use of Auror must end immediately.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Lawyers challenge widespread police use of number-plate software as evidence
Police reportedly tap into the Auckland-based Auror system 250,000 times a year, often outside big retailers and petrol stations.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573275/lawyers-challenge-widespread-police-use-of-number-plate-software-as-evidence
about 2 months ago
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Our members from TÄmaki branch and across Aotearoa were proud to participate in Aotearoa For Palestine's March for Humanity today. The Government must sanction Israel now, because a world without prisons can only exist when the genocide in Gaza ends and Palestine is free.
about 2 months ago
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TÄmaki whÄnau, please attend this fundraiser on Friday 26 September from 6:30PM at Trinity Methodist Church Hall to help Te KÄhui Creative Writing continue its by-rangatahi-for-rangatahi creative writing programme within and outside of prisons.
www.eventbrite.com/e/keep-te-ka...
2 months ago
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Join us and our comrades
@ponekeantifa.bsky.social
, International Socialist Organisation Aotearoa,
@peacewellington.bsky.social
and Te Tai TÄtÄkura on Saturday 6 September at Midland Park from 1PM as we march in opposition to the new FBI base and US troops here.
www.facebook.com/events/65778...
2 months ago
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Please donate if you can to help Te KÄhui Creative Writing continue its by-rangatahi-for-rangatahi creative writing programme within and outside of prisons.
www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
2 months ago
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The Government's proposed total ban on prisoners voting is a major attack on our democracy, as it violates prisoners human rights, it undermines their rehabilitation efforts and it increases anti-MÄori racism. This ban must be not be allowed to take place.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/27/w...
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Why imposing voting ban on prisoners is flawed
Comment from Victoria University of Wellington: The Government's plan to disenfranchise prisoners ignores NZ's human rights obligations, undermines rehabilitation efforts, and increases discrimination...
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/27/why-imposing-voting-ban-on-prisoners-is-flawed/
2 months ago
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Police carried out an unlawful program of mass surveillance for years. They created a database of thousands of photos of MÄori children who were under no suspicion. Police have failed over and over to meet deadlines to delete the photos.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Government promises to give police more information-collecting powers, details scant
But details on the upcoming law change are still scant.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/571144/government-promises-to-give-police-more-information-collecting-powers-details-scant
2 months ago
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Police cells are among some of the worst forms of imprisonment out there due to the high levels of mental, emotional and physical harm and increasing risk of self-harm that those held in them suffer. The detention of youth and adults in police cells must end immediately
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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More young people being detained in police cells for longer - children's commissioner
The Children's Commissioner is calling for an end to the practice.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/570462/more-young-people-being-detained-in-police-cells-for-longer-children-s-commissioner
3 months ago
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PAPA members, our Annual General Meeting will be happening on Saturday 30th August from 1PM-4PM online via Zoom. Please check the 21st August all-members email in your inbox or spam to register to attend the AGM and to nominate yourself for a National Organising Committee role.
3 months ago
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Please sign this petition calling on the Government to end the use of extreme-risk regimes in prisons like the Prisoners of Extreme Risk Unit/PERU, the Persons of Extreme Risk Directorate/PERD and the Transnational Organised Crime/TNOC management pathway.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Secret Punishment: End PERU, PERD and TNOC Regimes in New Zealand Prisons
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-secret-punishment-end-peru-perd-and-tnoc-regimes-in-new-zealand-prisons
3 months ago
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That over 60% of prisoners want to be put into torturous solitary confinement shows how horrific conditions are at Mount Eden prison. The Bail Amendment Act must be repealed, Mount Eden prison must be closed and decarceration measures must be implemented immediately.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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62% of Mt Eden prisoners in voluntary segregation, watchdog says many feel unsafe
A watchdog has also highlighted a raft of other issues at the Auckland jail, including staff shortages and limited rehabilitation activities.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/570511/62-percent-of-mt-eden-prisoners-in-voluntary-segregation-watchdog-says-many-feel-unsafe
3 months ago
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Please sign this petition calling on the Government to reject any legislative attempts to codify gang membership as a sentencing aggravator.
www.change.org/p/reject-gan...
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Sign the Petition
Reject Gang Membership as Aggravating in Sentencing
https://www.change.org/p/reject-gang-membership-as-aggravating-in-sentencing
3 months ago
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PÅneke whÄnau, join us on this rally and march on Saturday 6th September from 1PM (location to be confirmed) to demand that the Government close the FBI office in Aotearoa and end all security and military ties with the American capitalist imperialist regime!
www.facebook.com/events/65778...
3 months ago
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So called "prison riots" are a last resort protest against intolerable, inhumane conditions. We need an investigation and full transparency around what prompted this.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Spring Hill Prison lockdown ends after inmates start riot, light fires
A group of 11 prisoners refused to leave the exercise yard and lit fires at Spring Hill Corrections Facility.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/570181/spring-hill-prison-lockdown-ends-after-inmates-start-riot-light-fires
3 months ago
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Our members were proud to take part in the PÅneke HÄ«koi for Palestine by the Falastin Tea Collective today that called on the Government to recognise the State of Palestine as well as boycott, divest and sanction the genocidal Zionist state. None of us are free until Palestine is free!
3 months ago
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The Polynesian Panthers' picketing of the homes of government officials helped bring about the end of the dawn raids in the 1970's. The Government is now shamefully criminalising such tactics as part of their broader agenda to curtail the right to protest.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Protesting at people's private homes to be outlawed
Protesting outside someone's home is set to be made an offence, with offenders facing fines or jail time.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/570118/protesting-at-people-s-private-homes-to-be-outlawed
3 months ago
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