'Kiwis get it': Former politicians urge incoming government to adopt Future Generations Act

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Former ministers and MPs, and a former prime minister have signed a petition urging the incoming government to pass legislation proposed by the Opportunity Party for a Future…

Former ministers and MPs, and a former prime minister have signed a petition urging the incoming government to pass legislation proposed by the Opportunity Party for a Future Generations Act to stop "short-term" thinking.

Former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, alongside other MPs Christopher Finlayson, David Cunliffe, Eugenie Sage, Kiri Allan, James Shaw, Professor Dame Marilyn Waring and out-going independant Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, are among 16 former lawmakers and crown agency chief executives calling on the next government to implement the policy.

The Future Generations Act would set up a commissioner tasked with holding government to account for the long-term impacts of their policies, and give them the responsibility to facilitate citizens' assemblies and other kinds of public participation in policy.

The commissioner would be appointed for a five-year term, with no minister or party to direct its findings.

Finlayson said the future "belongs to the young" and it was time for "fresh thinking on some key issues facing our country".

Palmer said the thinking of future generations was needed to face "existential threats".

"No issue is more important to future generations than climate change," he said. "It is a threat to many forms of life on planet earth."

Wellbeing Economy Alliance future generations lead Nate Wilbourne told RNZ that polling commissioned by WEAll found most Kiwis supported laws mandating the government to think about the long-term decisions.

Wilbourne, 18, said the act was about looking beyond his own lifetime.

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