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• Online Forum: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 9 August 2025   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet   ‣ Register here
• Today is the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 9 August 2025   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
• Today is the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 6 August 2025   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
• 2025 commemorative events in Aotearoa New Zealand   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet

• Today is Nagasaki Day, 9 August 2024   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
• Statement: State Parties to the Treaty of Rarotonga, NPT PrepCom, 22 July 2024
• Online Forum: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 August 2024   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet   ‣ Register here   ‣ Forum photo
• Today is Hiroshima Day, 6 August 2024   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
• Commemorative events in Aotearoa New Zealand, 3 to 23 August 2024   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet   ‣ Scoop News

• Report of the Second Meeting of States Parties (TPNW/MSP/2023/14), 13 December 2023
• Draft Declaration of the Meeting: 'Our commitment to upholding the prohibition of nuclear weapons and averting their catastrophic consequences' (TPNW/MSP/2023/CRP.4/Rev.1), 1 December 2023
• Decisions to be taken by the Meeting, 30 November 2023
• New Zealand Statements   ‣ 27 November 2023   ‣ 28 November 2023   ‣ 29 November 2023   ‣ 30 November 2023 (as Co-Chair)   ‣ 1 December 2023

• New Zealand Voluntary Reports   ‣ On Articles 6 and 7 of the Treaty (TPNW/MSP/2023/11)   ‣ On TPNW Universalisation
• 'Nuclear Ban Daily', Reaching Critical Will, 24 November to 3 December 2023

• Online Forum: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Monday 7 August   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet   ‣ Register here
• Commemorative events in Aotearoa New Zealand ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet   ‣ Scoop Independent News

• Updates: NZ ‣ on Facebook ‣ on Twitter   ‣ RCW NPT News
• Nuclear News from New York: #NPT RevCon Final Day, update from Anna Hood   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
• Nuclear News from New York: Start of Week 4, update from Anna Hood   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
• Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons: Statement by 145 UN Member States at #NPTRevCon, 22 August 2022   ‣Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet   ‣ Formatted for printing
• Nuclear News from New York: Weeks 1 and 2, updates from Anna Hood   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet

• Urgency of Nuclear Abolition Underscores the Tenth NPT Review Conference, RCW, 31 July 2022
• Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control's comments in Parliament, 28 July 2022 ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet

‣ Background reading ‣ National Report: New Zealand
‣ RCW NPT Briefing Book, August 2022
‣ Draft recommendations (NPT/CONF.2020/PC.III/CRP.4/Rev.1), Preparatory Committee for the 10th NPT RevCon, 9 May 2019

• Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Online Forum, 9 August 2022
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• All events in Aotearoa New Zealand   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
    ‣ On Scoop Independent News

• Watch the Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control live from Vienna, 22 June 2022   ‣ On Facebook   ‣ On Twitter

• Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Online Forum with the Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control, 6 August 2021
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    Image: 'Eliminating nuclear weapons' quote, and Minister's full speech
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    Image: 'Justice for the Pacific' quote, and Minister's full speech
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• Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Commemorative events in Aotearoa New Zealand, August 2021
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• First #nuclearban treaty EIF celebration in Aotearoa New Zealand
    ‣ Photo album   ‣ Event details
• NZ celebrates global nuclear weapons ban on 21 and 22 January 2021, ICAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 15 January 2021   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet   ‣ Formatted for printing   ‣ Scoop News   ‣ Fuseworks Media

• Nuclear ban treaty celebration in Wellington and online, 12.30pm on Thursday 21 January   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
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• Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty celebration picnic in Auckland, 6pm on Thursday 21 January
• ‘Bomb Ban Day’ celebration in Christchurch, 9am on Friday 22 January
• ICAN Aotearoa New Zealand / Peace Boat ‘Hibakusha Project Online’ session, 1.30pm on Friday 22 January - postponed
• NZ government celebration in Auckland, 4pm on Friday 22 January, watch the livestream
• ICAN international virtual event, 9am on Saturday 23 January (NZ time) - watch the livestream
• Save the date: Nuclear weapons ban goes global! Celebrations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 21 and 22 January 2021
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• Update / Ministerial Statement   ‣ Share on Facebook   ‣ Re-Tweet
  ‣ Ministerial Statement, 15 December 2020   ‣ Formatted for printing
  ‣ Opening remarks: Towards a fully Nuclear Free Blue Pacific
  
• New Zealand ‣ Pacific nations beef up anti-nuclear advocacy under Treaty of Rarotonga, 16 December 2020   ‣ First Ministerial Meeting for the Treaty of Rarotonga, 14 December 2020

‣ International Day: link to share
‣ New Zealand statement, High-Level Meeting for the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, 2 October 2020

‣ Pacific Islands Forum, statement delivered by H.E. Mr Samuelu Laloniu, Permanent Representative of Tuvala, 26 August 2020
‣ Pacific Small Island Developing States, statement delivered by H.E. Satyendra Prasad, Permanent Representative of Fiji, 26 August 2020
‣ Western European and Others Group, statement delivered by Ireland, 26 August 2020

• New Zealand Prime Minister on Hiroshima Day, 6 August 2020
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• Speaking notes: H.E. Dell Higgie, Disarmament Ambassador, 6 August 2020
• New Zealand parliament on Hiroshima Day, 6 August 2020
    ‣ On Facebook   ‣ Retweet

‣ Justice Minister represents New Zealand at nuclear disarmament summit, and Stockholm Ministerial Declaration text, 11 June 2019

‣ Cluster III, David Lilly, Deputy Permanent Representative, 7 May 2019
‣ Cluster II, David Lilly, Deputy Permanent Representative, 3 May 2019
‣ Cluster I, Disarmament Ambassador Dell Higgie, 2 May 2019
‣ General Debate, Disarmament Ambassador Dell Higgie on behalf of the De-Alerting Group, 30 April 2019
‣ General Debate, Disarmament Ambassador Dell Higgie, 29 April 2019
‣ National report submitted by New Zealand (NPT/CONF.2020/PC.III/10), 29 April 2019
‣ PrepCom Working Papers are available at NZ disarmament statements online

‣ Auckland Statement on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 5 to 7 December 2018
‣ Opening message, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, 5 December 2018
‣ Opening speech, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, 5 December 2018
‣ Photos from the Conference are available here

• Photo album

• Public events: NGO forum and discussion in Wellington on 3 December   ‣ Facebook event   ‣ On Twitter   ‣ A4 poster   ‣ Photos
  Other events: In Wellington ‣ White Man Behind A Nobel Prize ‣ Public lecture In Auckland ‣ Public lecture ‣ NGO forum, to be confirmed
• Media coverage   ‣ Has New Zealand's nuclear free stance actually made any difference on the world stage over the past three decades? RNZ interview, broadcast 28 December 2018   ‣ New Zealand's role in achieving a nuclear weapon-free world, Newshub, 5 December 2018   ‣ Climate change adds to nuclear threat in Pacific, RNZI, 5 December 2018 and interview on 3 December   ‣ How small states like NZ could save the superpowers from disaster, The Spinoff, 4 December 2018   ‣ Stigmatising the nuclear bomb: Meet the woman who's got the world's nuclear powers running scared, Dominion Post, 3 December 2018

• Treaty Ratification Deposit Notification, 31 July 2018   ‣ New Zealand (C.N.366.2018)   ‣ Tokelau (C.N.367.2018)

• Draft Chair's factual summary ‣ Comments by the New Agenda Coalition, 4 May 2018 ‣ Draft Factual Summary ‣ Draft Report
• NZ statements and National Report

‣ Cluster III, Tharron McIvor, Deputy Permanent Representative, Vienna, 2 May 2018
‣ Cluster II, Tharron McIvor, Deputy Permanent Representative, Vienna, 30 April 2018
‣ Cluster I, Disarmament Ambassador Dell Higgie, 26 April 2018
‣ General Debate, Disarmament Ambassador Dell Higgie, 23 April 2018
‣ National report submitted by New Zealand (NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/6), 17 April 2018

• Joint statements and Working Papers

‣ Comments on Draft Chair's factual summary, New Agenda Coalition (delivered by New Zealand), 4 May 2018
‣ Cluster I, De-Alerting Group (delivered by Malaysia), 26 April 2018
‣ Cluster I, New Agenda Coalition (delivered by New Zealand),
25 April 2018
‣ General Debate, Vienna Group of Ten (delivered by Australia),
24 April 2018
‣ General Debate, New Agenda Coalition (delivered by New Zealand),
23 April 2018
‣ Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: reiterating the urgency of its implementation, Working Paper Submitted by New Zealand on behalf of the New Agenda Coalition - Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand and South Africa, (NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.13), 15 March 2018
‣ Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons, Working Paper submitted by Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, Guyana, Indonesia, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Malta, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa and Thailand (NPT/CONF.2020/PC.II/WP.9), 9 March 2018

‣ Action on disarmament and arms control, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, 27 February 2018

  ‣ Explanation of Vote on L.35: 'United Action with Renewed Determination
    Towards the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons', 26 October 2017
  ‣ Nuclear weapons, 13 October 2017
  ‣ Statements on other disarmament topics

• NZ statements - General debate, 15 June - Preamble, 15 June - Article 1, 16 and 19 June - Articles 2 to 5, 19 June - Articles 6 to 10, 20 June - Articles 11 to 21, 21 June - Subsequent oral interventions are outlined in the Nuclear Ban Daily (below)
• Nuclear Ban Daily - 15 June - 16 June - 19 June - 20 June - 21 June
  - 22 June - 23 June - 27 June - 28 June - 29 June - 3 July - 4 July - 6 July - 7 July - 8 July
• Earlier versions of the Treaty text and comments: Draft Convention text, 22 May, 27 June, 2 July and 3 July - Revisions, 6 July - Facilitators Papers, 30 June: Article 1, Articles 2 to 5, Articles 6 to 8 and Articles 9 to 21 - States' comments on the draft Convention, 22 June ‣ Preamble: States' comments on the draft Preamble, 21 June - Revised draft Preamble, 20 June - States' comments on the revised draft Preamble, 23 June
• Indigenous statement to the UN Conference, 16 June 2017
• UN Conference to negotiate legally binding treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons will hold second substantive session from 15 June to 7 July, United Nations, 14 June 2017
• Briefing by the President of the United Nations Conference, 12 June 2017
• Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic and Article 36, 8 June 2017 - Victim assistance - Environmental remediation
• We cannot let history repeat itself: we are not guinea pigs! Youngsolwara Pacific and MISA4thePacific, 7 June 2017
• Women's march to ban the bomb, 17 June 2017

• NZ statements - General Debate, 2 May - Cluster I, 5 May
  - Cluster II, 8 May - Cluster III, 9 May - Final session, 12 May
      + related NAC statement and Working Paper
• National report submitted by New Zealand, 1 May 2017
  (NPT/CONF.2020/PC.I/8)
• Taking forward nuclear disarmament: Working paper submitted by Ireland on behalf of Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, New Zealand and South Africa, as members of the New Agenda Coalition, 21 March 2017
• 2017 NPT Briefing Book - Reaching Critical Will

• NZ statements - 28 March: General debate + Principles, objectives and preamble - 29 March: Core prohibitions - 31 March: Institutional Arrangements
• Nuclear Ban Daily, Reaching Critical Will - 27 March - 28 March
  - 29 March - 30 March - 31 March - 4 April
• UN webcast: watch the conference live or archived

* Draft resolution: 'Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations'   - Resolution text: 28 September 2016,
  - Resolution text: 14 October 2016   - More information

• New Zealand statement: Nuclear Weapons, 21 October 2015
• New Zealand statement: 'Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas' resolution, 19 October 2015

• iCAN Global Parliamentary Appeal for a Nuclear Weapons Ban: help encourage NZ MPs to join the Global Appeal for a Nuclear Weapons Ban, please check the list of signatories or contact iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand - 29 signatories so far!
• iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand postcards: help spread the word, print your own (print settings:actual size + landscape) or contact us if you would like hard copies.

• Time for action on a global ban on nuclear weapons - vote in the online poll, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand

• Progressing Nuclear Disarmament: A humanitarian disarmament forum with Dell Higgie, NZ Disarmament Ambassador, 8 August 2016 - Facebook event - A4 poster
• 71st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Commemorative events in Aotearoa New Zealand, 6 - 9 August 2016
• NZ Ambassador for Disarmament's speeches marking the 20th anniversary of the ICJ's Advisory Opinion, 8 July 2016 - at the public event - at the symposium
• Pursuing “effective measures” relating to nuclear disarmament: Ways of making a legal obligation a reality, Associate Professor Treasa Dunworth, Published in 'The human cost of nuclear weapons', ICRC, July 2016
• Forum: Banning nuclear weapons, killer robots and explosive weapons, Wellington, 21 December 2015 - on Facebook - A4 poster
• Where to Now After the NPT Review Conference? Hon Phil Goff MP, Labour Spokesperson on Disarmament, 27 August 2015
• New Zealand's position on the Humanitarian Pledge: Letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 6 August 2015
• 70th Anniversary: Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Commemorative events and initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand, August 2015 - on Facebook - formatted for printing
• Motions: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 70th Anniversary, NZ House of Representatives, 30 July 2015
• NPT Review Conference fails to progress abolition of nuclear weapons, so what now? iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 22 May 2015
• NPT update: NZ statements so far, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 5 May 2015
• NPT Working Paper and the New Zealand government's position on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 11 April 2015
• Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day: Time for action on nuclear weapons, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 28 February 2014 - Formatted for printing - On Facebook
• iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand presentation notes, December 2013 / January 2014
• Nuclear weapons, NZ and Norway: Making disarmament progress in 2013, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand presentation, 21 February 2013
• Select Committee Report to parliament supports government action on a global nuclear weapons ban, August 2012 - on facebook
  - formatted for printing - read the Report
• Letter of support for Petition No. 2011/1(International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Aotearoa New Zealand), Peace Movement Aotearoa, March 2012

• 71st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Commemorative events in Aotearoa New Zealand, 6 - 9 August 2016
• Pursuing “effective measures” relating to nuclear disarmament: Ways of making a legal obligation a reality, Associate Professor Treasa Dunworth, Published in 'The human cost of nuclear weapons', ICRC, July 2016
• 70th Anniversary: Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Commemorative events and initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand - on Facebook - formatted for printing
• Motions: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 70th Anniversary, NZ House of Representatives, 30 July 2015
• NPT Review Conference fails to progress abolition of nuclear weapons, so what now? iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 22 May 2015
• NPT update: NZ statements so far, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 5 May 2015
• NPT Working Paper and the New Zealand government's position on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 11 April 2015
• Ban on nuclear weapons closer? Outcome of the Third International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 10 December 2014
• Third International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 4 December 2014
• Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons, Ambassador Del Higgie, on behalf of New Zealand and 154 other UN members states, First Committee of the 69th UN General Assembly, 20 October 2014
• International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Abolition Day, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 26 September 2014
• As Nuclear Test Ban Treaty turns 18, Foreign Ministers issue joint call for its entry into force, CTBTO, 25 September 2014 - Joint statement (available on 26 September)
• NPT Preparatory Committee, 28 April to 9 May 2014
  - Updates and reports: NPT News in Review
  - New Zealand: - national report - statements General debate, 28 April 2014; Nuclear Disarmament debate, 30 April 2014; Non-proliferation debate, 1 May 2014; Nuclear energy, 5 May 2014
• Banning Nuclear Weapons: A Pacific Islands Perspective, Nic Maclellan / International iCAN, January 2014
• Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, Nayarit, Mexico, 13 - 14 February

• Report from the Nayarit Conference, Reaching Critical Will, 15 February 2014
• Chair’s Summary, 14 February 2014
• New Zealand: Final Statement by Ambassador Dell Higgie, 14 February 2014
• Urgent paradigm shift in nuclear disarmament needed: Austria announces follow up international conference to progress the elimination of nuclear weapons, 13 February 2014
• New Zealand: Session II Statement by Ambassador Dell Higgie, 13 February 2014
• Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons web site
• Key urges action on nuclear disarmament, 27 September 2013
• iCAN statement to the UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament, 26 September 2013
• Open-ended Working Group on promoting multilateral nuclear disarmament adopts its final report to the General Assembly, 4 September 2013 - UNOG meeting summary - Open-ended Working Group Report
• iCAN Global Parliamentary Appeal to Ban Nuclear Weapons: if you would like to encourage NZ MPs to join the Global Appeal to Ban Nuclear Weapons, please contact iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand for details
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemorations: details of events in Aotearoa New Zealand, August 2013 - on Facebook - formatted for printing
• NPT PrepCom Update, including NZ representatives' statements, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 1 May 2013
• Banning nuclear weapons: NGO briefing on the Oslo conference, other developments and future possibilities, 27 March 2013 in Wellington     - Formatted   - On Facebook   - Photos
• Oslo conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, 4 and 5 March 2013:
    - International iCAN media release   - iCAN video
    - New Zealand goverment statement (5 March 2013)
    - Expert presentations   - Other statements   - More links

• Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day: Time for action on nuclear weapons, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand, 1 March 2013
      - Formatted   - On Facebook
• Nuclear weapons, NZ and Norway: Making disarmament progress in 2013, iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand presentation, 21 February 2013
• Unspeakable suffering: the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, Reaching Critical Will, February 2013
• Nuclear weapons, NZ and Norway: Making disarmament progress in 2013, seminar on 21 February 2013 - A4 poster - On Facebook
  
  
  • Invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

• iCAN Aotearoa New Zealand NGO Forums: Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, in Wellington on 6 December 2012 and in Auckland on 11 December 2012 - Details on Facebook - A4 poster
• Nuclear weapons - a New Zealand perspective, Maryan Street MP, Speech to Red Cross Australia conference 'Towards Eliminating Nuclear Weapons', Adelaide, 3 November 2012
• UN Special Rapporteur: Report on the human rights impact of the US nuclear testing programme in the Marshall Islands, September 2012
• Nuclear tests remain a threat to human health and global stability, UN Secretary-General's message on the International Day against Nuclear Tests, 29 August 2012
• Leadership requested on nuclear weapons ban, Ministry for Disarmament, 10 August 2012
• Hibakusha and a nuclear-free convention, Maryan Street, Labour Spokesperson on Disarmament and Arms Control, 9 August 2012
• Photo album: Hiroshima hibakusha visit Wellington, 7 and 8 August 2012
• The message from Hiroshima: public meeting with Ms Shigeko Sasamori and Mr Michi Hirata, hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) from Hiroshima, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 in Wellington - on facebook - A4 poster
• Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Aotearoa New Zealand, 5 August to 11 August 2012 - on facebook - formatted for printing
• Select Committee Report to parliament supports government action on a global nuclear weapons ban, August 2012 - on facebook
  - formatted for printing - read the Report
• Land sold to British nuclear weapons / private prisons corporation, 3 August 2012
• ican Aotearoa New Zealand: Time for action on a global ban on nuclear weapons - on facebook - formatted for printing - Vote in the online poll
• New Zealand government's position on a nuclear weapons convention, 1 June 2012
• New Zealand House of Representatives - Notice of Motion on the achievement of a nuclear-weapons-free world, Maryan Street, 31 May 2012
• Message to the Parliament of New Zealand, Angela Kane, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, 29 May 2012
• Notes for speech for 25th anniversary of NZ's nuclear free legislation event at parliament, Maryan Street, May 2012
• Norway announces nuclear weapons conference: an opportunity for New Zealand, 21 April 2012
• Letter of support for Petition No. 2011/1(International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Aotearoa New Zealand), Peace Movement Aotearoa, March 2012
• ican Aotearoa New Zealand petition to parliament, closed March 2012
• ican Aotearoa New Zealand petition goes to Select Committee
• Remembering Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day, 1 March 2012
• ican Aotearoa New Zealand - launch, 25 June 2011