Max Rashbrooke - Overcoming the obstacles to deeper democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand
Channel: Trust Democracy NZ
Date: 28/04/2021

Max Rashbrooke speaks to the Annual General Meeting of Trust Democracy, and responds to questions from the audience afterwards.

Max sets out the following six obstacles to deepening democracy in New Zealand:
1. A lack of information about how democracy might be improved
2. A sense of apathy about the state of New Zealand’s democracy
3. Difficulties understanding the place of deeper democracy in a country that’s dedicated to power sharing
4. The cost of doing things differently
5. The direct opposition to it
6. The incorrect belief that we’re doing all of this already
 
And he addresses how we might overcome them.

The meeting was held via videoconference on 14 April 2021.