"God of Nations... in the bonds of love we meet, hear our voices we entreat... defend our free land. From dissension, envy, hate and corruption guard our State."

We see List MPs being slaves to party leaders, and parties causing conflict (and sometimes resentment) to win votes.

How can we improve representation? Remove Lists. Have two seats per electorate. Use Single Transferable Vote.

This keeps the regional electorates the same: relatively small in size, where we know the candidates. Australia's STV is slightly less adversarial and considers others a little more.

Yet, the most important thing is to promote, in society and in education, "Treat others how you want to be treated". If we don't retain this attitude in New Zealand, we lose everything New Zealand fought for in the second world war. If you love your neighbour as yourself, you will not kill them, you will instead die for them. It is this spirit that kept people together during the war, and it can keep New Zealand together through these tough times.

Andrew Clow, Te Puna.