Motor Home Dwellers - How Do We Vote?
Graham and Susan were a delightful couple I met in the DOC campground next to the Acheron Accommodation House. They have been living the motor home lifestyle for 12 years and love it. But currently they are having trouble enrolling for the next election. Because they are of no fixed abode, they can't register. They do have a postal address, but it's only a box number. It is not where they live and that is not enough to satisfy the powers-that-be. They could just give an address - say their daughter's - but that would be lying and they believe they shouldn't have to do that. They believe the system ought to be able to accommodate them and other motor home lifestylers.
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more 
