Complacent Nation

• Author(s): Gavin Ellis,
• Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
• Pages: 152
• ISBN_10: 094749295X
  ISBN_13: 9780947492953
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / World / Australian & Oceanian , Political Science / Commentary & Opinion ,

Description:... New Zealanders are too complacent about the continuing erosion of their right to know what government is doing on their behalf. Political risk has become a primary consideration in whether official information requests will be met, and successive governments have allowed free speech rights to be overridden.

Drawing on decades of experience as a journalist and editor, Gavin Ellis chronicles the patterns of erosion and calls for entrenchment of the Bill of Rights Act. As supreme law, it would set a high bar that politicians must hurdle before freedom of expression could be curtailed.