Richard Prebble: Why NZ needs a modern Magna Carta for basic freedoms

Legarda files Magna Carta for DRRM workers bill

Citing the importance of disaster management workers to the country, Senator Loren Legarda filed Senate Bill No. 2927, or the Magna Carta for Public Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Workers. Legarda said it was important for the bill to be passed into law to help recognize the efforts of DRRM workers in a country that has consistently topped the World Risk Index among 193 countries. “The country as a whole faces natural hazards more…

Richard Prebble: Why NZ needs a modern Magna Carta for basic freedoms

THREE KEY FACTS: A majority of MPs could at any time wipe away freedoms. We know because they have. In 1948 the first Labour government passed the Economic...