{"id":65875,"date":"2024-09-10T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=65875"},"modified":"2024-09-10T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T20:17:43","slug":"poll-shows-falling-support-nz-first-fast-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/poll-shows-falling-support-nz-first-fast-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Track Bill becoming the albatross around Winston Peters\u2019 neck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New polling shows that by pushing the controversial Fast Track Bill, NZ First could be getting offside with its own support base.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2024\/09\/8152f8ff-horizon-research-fast-track-bill-report-august-2024.pdf?utm_source=press-release&amp;utm_medium=press-release&amp;utm_campaign=FastTrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Horizon Research polling<\/a> commissioned by Greenpeace has revealed that an increasing majority of NZ First voters do not support the Fast Track Bill and that their support has fallen sharply to only 36% from 55% in May 2024.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace spokesperson Juressa Lee says, \u201cIt\u2019s becoming increasingly clear that the Luxon government is flogging a dead horse with their insistence on pushing ahead with the Fast Track Bill against all good advice and public opinion.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cEven for Winston Peters and Shane Jones, who have championed the dangerous new legislation as a condition of the New Zealand First coalition agreement, the Fast Track Bill could be the proverbial dead albatross around their necks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The true impact of the new legislation has become more clear recently, with information provided by the government showing that nineteen new mines could be created under the fast-track approvals process.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen the mining lobbyist Straterra drawn out of the shadows recently trying to defend the prospect of new mines on conservation land or on the seabed, and the sheer number of new mines in the pipeline shows the true impact of this dangerous new legislation.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cNew Zealanders do not want to see oceans and forests turned to open-cast mines, they don\u2019t want to see rivers and lakes turned to sewers, and they don\u2019t want to see more indigenous species pushed to extinction, but that is what the Fast Track Bill could do,\u201d says Lee.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace has written <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz\/fast-track-open-letter\">an open letter<\/a> to companies considering the fast track, cautioning of reputational damage and loss of social licence that would bring, and warning of the resistance they will face. Over 6,000 people have signed on.<\/p>\n\n<p>The new polling shows that there has been a significant decline in support for the Fast Track Bill among New Zealand First voters. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/national-voters-concerned-over-fast-track-bills-potential-destruction-corruption\/\">similar poll in May<\/a> 2024 showed 55% of New Zealand First voters thought the bill was a good idea, but by August 2024, this support dropped to only 36%.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the period since the May polling was done, there has been a hikoi to Wellington, a 20,000-strong protest in Auckland on 8 June, and a variety of protests around the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>In that time, overall awareness of the Fast Track Bill has grown, with 55% of respondents aware of it by August 2024, compared to only 42% in May 2024. This increase is particularly significant among younger adults under 35 years old, where awareness rose from 30% in May to 48% in August.<\/p>\n\n<p>The research also reveals growing concerns among the public about the potential consequences of the bill, with 80% of respondents showing concern about the possibility of activities currently prohibited (like dumping raw sewage into the ocean) being allowed under the bill, and 70% are concerned that the public will not have the right to participate in fast-tracked developments in their communities.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-65557  sticky-bottom-mobile collapse show\"\n\t\t\tid=\"action-card\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/petition-stop-the-fast-track-open-letter\/\" 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The whakapapa of my wh\u0101nau is a journey through Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. From the Whangape Harbour to Rawhiti via Ngawha, down to Tauranga Moana, over to Tupapa and Ngatangiia in Rarotonga, and north again to Tahiti. My tamariki, through their p\u0101p\u0101, also whakapapa to Toi village in Niue. I was raised by a frugal mother who was always mindful of her impact on the planet, and navigated it accordingly. My dad has always enjoyed nature and instilled in us that there were responsibilities we had to be able to keep enjoying it. This was my very first influence. When I became an adult and then a mother myself, decolonising my life became a priority to raise my tamariki with an unapologetic, Indigenous worldview. Along the way and without realising, my whakaaro around kaitiakitanga began to shift, or rather, return. I felt more responsible, but also more empowered. I connect the dots between 160+ years of colonisation, extractivism, social and environmental harms and injustices and a worldview that sees the environment as separate to people. That people are somehow entitled to take, own, throw away, destroy and degrade. We are witnessing the impacts from living in a system rooted in colonialism and racism and extractive industries are devastating the planet and furthering the climate crisis. Now, wannabe miners are eyeing up the seabed in the South Taranaki Bight, and also seeking to plunder the deep seas. This problem is colossal, but so is our fight to protect te taiao. There are solutions to these issues. We must stop seabed mining before it starts.","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/author\/juressa\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65878,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65875\/revisions\/65878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65875"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=65875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}