A Whangarei student has pleaded with young people in Northland to start voting in national and local elections to improve decision-making at all levels of governance.
Stacey Henderson, 19, said recent decision by the National Government to bulldoze various policies such as the GCSB Bill through Parliament should spur all right-thinking Kiwis into action.
She was among about 100 people who took part in a Demo for Democracy rally in Whangarei yesterday.
The rally was against the GCSB spy bill, genetically-engineered crops, asset sales, toxic mining and, as organisers put it, "various dodgy National Party policies".
Ms Henderson said she wasn't eligible to vote in the last general election but she would take part in the local government polls in October.