Open AccessThe Firefighters' Referendum - Should Questions arising from Industrial Disputes be excluded from a Referenda held under the Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993?
Author(s) -
G Wehrle
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
victoria university of wellington law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-3082
pISSN - 1171-042X
DOI - 10.26686/vuwlr.v27i2.6110
Subject(s) - referendum , context (archaeology) , political science , public administration , law , subject matter , law and economics , sociology , politics , geography , archaeology , curriculum
The New Zealand Professional Firefighters' Union initiated the first referendum held under the Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993. This article examines the question whether that referendum demonstrated a need to reform the Act to restrict the subject-matter of future referenda under the Act. The analysis is conducted in the context of the history and aims of the Act and of the firefighters' dispute. The article a case study of New Zealand's first citizen initiated referendum.