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Joe Higham is the executive editor of the Otago University Students Association magazine Critic - Te Arohi

How Arthur Taylor is taking on the government from prison – and winning

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In 2016 notorious criminal Arthur Taylor successfully challenged the government’s blanket ban on prisoners voting in elections. In 2018 the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s ruling that the ban is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights, however Justice Minister Andrew Little has said changing the law is currently ‘not a priority’. In 2017 … Read more