NEW party to the left is needed! You just need an NZ mailing address by the looks of things -- I used my parents' but I don't see why a friend's wouldn't do. It is clear they are not squaring it with the area in which you are a registered elector (if indeed you are one). I sent an accompanying e-mail to their office admin with some questions in that vein, so if I hear anything I'll let you know. I have pondered on this issue of membership.  I am not a committed Labour Party supporter, so won't be parachuting myself in to membership, just to vote on the leadership issue. I will not be giving my party vote to Labour under the present caucus leadership.  They will need to move away from neoliberalism and to a new style of leadership for me to consider voting for the Party. I will be lobbying/emailing my electorate (Labour) MP over the leadership issue, as it will determine whether I give him my electorate vote. I'd like to think that members of Mana and the Greens would do likewise. Not because they would consider giving their vote to Labour (although some might be in that position with regards the electorate vote), but just on the honest basis that for their preferences to gain more traction they need a more left leaning parliamentary bloc. It would certainly allow Labour mps to get a taste for where the broader parliamentary focussed left is sitting at