Welcome back everyone. This is the first News Letter of the year and we want to ensure change happens.   Have a good read and send us your thoughts and ideas as change is for all of us not just a few.

You are not going to believe the new policy the Board has implemented. 

Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/fellow-practitioners-update/41/fellow-practitioner-issue-237-dated-16-january-2015/1817/

hi guys, i think the board could be in trouble if it does not retract their `freedom of expression 'policy ,AKA  Unreasonable Behaviour Policy, cheers
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 Legal source
The most significant legal source of the right to freedom of expression is set out in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which states that:
1.   Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference
2.   Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art or through any other media of his choice.
3.   The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:
Censorship and suppression are ‘themselves intrinsically evil, and will always tend to do more harm than good’ (Hargreaves, 2002,

I don't think the policy stops anyone expressing opinions of what ever sort - it can't do that - what it does is give the Board the right to stop listening.

Actually that's a fair comment Badger, I agree.  Partly because until the last few years no one has ever questioned them - again because they used to be reasonable and do their job - then we saw the era where they wanted to own and run everything under Mr Routhan, and now I'm not entirely sure how I would describe the set up - but I do know it could be better - it could take industry with it - maybe there needs to be a change at the top.