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The Government is giving people the chance to “kick the tyres” of the MMP electoral system although it is working well, Prime Minister John Key says.
Justice Minister Simon Power announced today there would be a referendum at the same time as the 2011 general election, asking voters whether they want to retain MMP.
If they don’t, they can tick one of several alternative voting systems that will be set out on the same paper.
It will be a run off between MMP and the alternative that was given the most votes in the first referendum.
A second referendum will be held at the same time as the 2014 general election if a majority want a change.
“But we promised New Zealanders on the campaign trail they would have an opportunity to kick the tyres.
“I think we’ve proved in close toly a year in government that the system is working well,” Mr Key told reporters.”
Mr Key said he didn’t believe voters would be likely to choose to go back to the old first-past-the-post system, which MMP replaced in 1996. .
Mr Power told there was a widespread expectation at the time MMP was introduced that there would be a chance for another say on the system.
If a majority of voters prefer the alternative voting system to MMP, the 2017 general election will be held under the chosen alternative.
Cabinet was yet to make decisions around wording of the questions and the alternate electoral systems to be offered.
It was also cheaper than other options, although holding two referenda would still cost $23 million.
Mr Power said holding a referendum alongside a general election ensured a good turnout, which was important if the referendum was to be legitimate.
Mr Power said the Government was determined to ensure there would be a strong public information campaign explaining the different alternatives.
Mr Power said the Government was determined to ensure there would be a strong public information campaign explaining the different alternatives.
“The Government wants to ensure New Zealanders have time to consider all the issues fully before making their decision.
“If a majority of voters opt for a change from MMP, there will be plenty of time for public discussion on the merits of MMP versus the preferred alternative voting system, before the second referendum,” he said. It would include the wording of questions and the options to be considered.”
Legislation to allow the first referendum would go to Parliament early next year.
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Input would be considered at the select committee stage
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Annah Stretton is no stranger to controversy.
For her winter 2010 collection she transported the audience back to the 1950s in an ode to legendaryKiwi exotic dance star Freda Stark.
Her collection featured lingerie as outerwear, diaphanous tea dresses with a twist and figure hugging pencil skirts.
In the prelude to the show, ushers gave out icecreams to the audience before Stretton sent models with tousled hair and come-to-bed eyes down the catwalk. .
For the finale she sent models down the runway wearing little more than gold body paint,a trademark of Stark in her pomp.
Twenty-seven names took John Lennon and Yoko Ono as the inspiration for their range.
Hogan’s collection was ladylike and demure with a twist.
The Sable and Minx Winter 2010 collection earlier showed a very pretty feminine collection featuring a palette of lilacs, pale blues and sage green.
But the oversized shirts and fitted jackets the label is known for were also still a big part of the range.
Cybele Wiren sent elfin models down the catwalk in fluid, beautifully draped clothes, in a palette of inky blues and nudes.
The first show of New Zealand Fashion Week was always going to be a big draw.
Standout pieces from the collection included skirts and dresses which were panelled and fluted to resemble the petals of a lily.
For Winter 2010, Wiren said she found her inspiration from the formality of the Victorian era and the sculptural qualities of flowers and insects.
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The lily was also strongly evident in prints – a navy silk mini-dress is bound to be a bestseller for the designer
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A Bay of Plenty man who raped a sleeping teenager before fleeing the country using a fake passport has been jailed for seven years.
Mount Maunganui diesel mechanic Phillip Armstrong, 49, last month pleaded guilty to rape and two breaches of the Passport Act after being extradited from Australia.
In the early hours of the morning, the teenager went home.
Armstrong had been partying with a group of people, including the teenage victim in March last year, Tauranga District Court was told.
He left after the girl woke up and cried out. Shortly afterwards, Armstrong entered her house through an unlocked door, made his way to the room where she was sleeping and raped her.
However, in September last year Armstrong submitted a false passport application to Internal Affairs, using another name and date of birth, and a week later used it to travel to Sydney.
He was subsequently arrested and appeared in court on March 10, 2008, the Bay of Plenty Times reported. .
He was eventually tracked down and extradited back to New Zealand.
Defence counsel Craig Tuck said Armstrong deeply regretted his actions and deserved credit for his guilty pleas and a $3000 emotional harm payment, paid to the court yesterday by his family.
The court was told Armstrong’s criminal history included an attempted rape in the 1990s.
Judge Louis Bidois said he was satisfied Armstrong had fled the country to avoid the charges and needed to appreciate the extent of the damage and harm he had done to the victim.
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Well-known television host, author and clinical psychologist Nigel Latta says he only agreed to help review policies around the smacking issue if he was free to speak his mind about the conclusions.
Prime Minister John Key yesterday released the Terms of Reference for a review of policies and procedures used by Child, Youth and Family and the police when investigating smacking.
Mr Latta was opposed to the law change and voted no in the recent related referendum.
Mr Latta, Social Development Ministry chief executive Peter Hughes and Police Commissioner Howard Broad will conduct the review.
In a referendum the previous month, 87 percent of those who voted said no to the question: “Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”
The review will look at procedures, including the referral process and identify any changes that are necessary or desirable.
The law as it stands bans smacking for the purposes of correction but the police have the discretion not to prosecute for inconsequential smacks.
Mr Latta said he did not believe that a parent smacking their child, in the common sense understanding of what that meant, should be subject to criminal investigation.
It will also “consider any other matters which, in the reviewers’ opinion, will assist in ensuring that parents are treated as Parliament intended”.
He intended to find out whether the law meant good parents were being subjected to investigations that were intrusive or traumatic.
The debate on the issue had become polarised with both sides reducing complex social and moral issues into simplistic extremes that had consumed time, energy and money, when everyone agreed children needed protection from abuse.
“I can understand that Mr Key wanted someone who believes (parents) should have the legal right to bring up their children using physical discipline,” she said on Radio New Zealand.
Green Party MP Sue Bradford, who drafted the law change that banned smacking, said she hoped Mr Latta would work with the team in a professional and unbiased way. .
“I do understand Mr Latta is a professional.
“Family First has been documenting substantive evidence of good families being investigated and prosecuted as a result of the law, and it is essential that Mr Latta meet these families and views the evidence,” said Family First’s national director Bob McCoskrie.”
The Family First organisation, which campaigned for parents’ right to smack their children, welcomed Mr Latta’s appointment but said it was concerned because he had said he was not going to meet any lobby groups.
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The four men accused of brutally attacking two young couples during a violent rampage in Auckland’s North Shore have pleaded guilty this afternoon.
Harlem Haynui Kirton, 19, Piri Valli Kirton, 18, Ruamoko Taiapa, 21, and Jono Wilson this afternoon entered guilty pleas on all charges on the second day of their trial at the Auckland District Court.
The four had been accused of aggravated robbery, intent to cause grievous bodily harm, wounding with intent and assault with intent to rob, the NZ Herald reported.
The mother of one of the accused, Kiriana Taiapa, also entered a guilty plea today to being an accessory after the fact.
The charges were related to events that occurred on the North Shore on January 15 last year when two couples were violently attacked. .
She had been accused of trying to dispose of 3 metal bars which were used during the attack.
Ms Taiapa was released on bail.
Ms Mandeno said their first victims were a young Russian couple, Dennis Khotchenko and Valeriya Nesterova, who were parked in a red Mercedes on the roadside near Milford Beach enjoying a beer.
As the trial opened in Auckland District Court yesterday, Crown prosecutor Sarah Mandeno said Harlem Kirton took his girlfriend to see the film American Gangster then met up with his brother and friends and went “cruising the streets of the North Shore, examining for trouble”. He then asked Mr Khotchenko if he had “ever met a real gangster”.
She said Wilson walked up to them, struck up a conversation and asked for a beer. “From there the nightmare unfolded,” Ms Mandeno said. Wilson then hit Mr Khotchenko around the head with a metal bar. The frenzied attack left Mr Khotchenko “dizzy and bloodied”. The frenzied attack left Mr Khotchenko “dizzy and bloodied”. On reaching the shore, she sought help from a resident. She eventually managed to escape by running into the water and swimming across an inlet. This time they attacked Oskar Carroll and Ericka Rancourt as they walked home after a night out.
Ms Mandeno said that two hours later the four men struck again.
. Both were badly hurt and could remember little from the attack, Ms Mandeno said