Wednesday 3rd September, 2025
NZ Outdoors and Freedom Party (NZOFP) is extremely concerned about the undermining of Bill of Rights
NZ Outdoors and Freedom Party (NZOFP) is extremely concerned about the serial undermining of fundamental rights by governments and our courts and supports urgent reform to strengthen our fundamental rights
New Zealand Bill of Rights was implemented to uphold New Zealand's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It is one of only a handful of laws to protect the public against abuse of power by the state. In contrast most of our laws have the opposite purpose of the state restricting the public.
Our fundamental human rights including the right to life, right to refuse medical treatment and right not to be experimented on, and not be subject to cruel and inhumane treatment have been ignored by our politicians and bureaucrats. This happened frequently during the COVID, response and the lack of respect has continued since then.
“One obvious example is mass medication with fluoridation, which involves the addition of a known neurotoxin industrial waste to our drinking water" says NZ Outdoors and Freedom Party leader Sue Grey.
"Our government and Supreme Court sometimes recognise the importance of these fundamental rights. However their respect is ad hoc. Sometimes they treat our fundamental rights as if they don't matter at all" says Sue Grey.
In the case of fluoridation the government admitted not even considering the rights implications of their decisions, even after the US Federal Court had determined that the risks of fluoridation from its known neurotoxicity ( poisoning of children's brains) were unjustified.
Recently the crown has argued that it's too onerous to expect public servants to consider our human rights before making decisions which affect the public.
"It should not be for the government to decide if their policies and decisions are justified limitations to our rights. These rights are fundamental and belong to the people. They are essential for individual mana and dignity" says Sue Grey.
At its AGM last weekend, the NZOFP adopted a solution to Fix the Bill of Rights to better safeguard our most fundamental rights including medical freedom and informed consent
NZOFP urges all political parties to unite fix to BORA by legislating the following amendment to send a clear signal to future Parliaments, Governments, and all NZ institutions to ensure they comprehend that human rights are fundamental, particularly the rights and freedoms in sections 8, 9, 10 and 11, to ensure no person might be forcibly medicated, and the government may not mandate actions which may cause death.
Under the remit, the New Zealand Parliament (coalition of willing parties) will initiate a Bill in the House to enact the following amendment to the Bill of Rights 1990 (the following text represents the full scope of the proposed amendment) current text in italic, amended text in bold italic:
Amend S5 Justified limitations by inserting: Subject to section 4, and subject to section 5A, the rights and freedoms contained in this Bill of Rights may be subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society
Insert a new section 5A: 5A Unjustified limitations to say: None of sections 4 and 5 provide any justified limits on the rights and freedoms contained in sections 8, 9, 10 and 11
Amend S11 Right to refuse medical treatment to read: Everyone has the right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment; informed consent might be provided for children by their guardians, and for persons unable to make decisions for themselves by lawfully enacted means
For more information please contact
Sue Grey on 021 2263418 or at suegreylawyer@gmail.com
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