Submissions open · both close 13 July 2026

yeah, nah.

Some things are just worth protecting: our forests, our coastlines, our kids' future. This week, two laws threaten all three.
Make your voice count in under three minutes.

Phone works mint. Couch-friendly, about a minute a bill.

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[ 01 - the tool ]

Pick your fights. We'll build the rest.

Select committees group identical submissions as one. Yeah Nah generates a different submission for every bill, with your name, your concerns, your words. They count separately.

stage 01 / 03 Pick your bills.

Both are ticked by default. Tick the ones you want to act on today - one bill is plenty, both is incredible, your call.

stage 02 / 03 Make it yours.

All optional. Anything you add here shapes the submission's voice. Nothing leaves this browser tab.

Your name, email and address go on the Parliament form when you file - Yeah Nah doesn't collect any of them.

Lifts your submission out of the pile. Adds an "I am ___" line at the top. Submissions without it just go in your name on the Parliament form.

Click all that apply - the more you add, the more unique and powerful your submission. None of it is stored; it's added right here in your browser, never sent to us.

The outdoors

Your work

You and your whānau

Your values

Change you've already lived through

Where you live

What climate change is costing you

Not on the list? Add it in your own words in the box above - it lands the same way.

One or two sentences in your own words. Goes verbatim into every submission. We never embellish or extrapolate - it's inserted exactly as you write it.

stage 03 / 03 Your angle on each one.

Tick the concerns that resonate per bill, and add anything specific you'd like to say about each one. Sorted by deadline.

~ 1 second. Each generation is unique.
Tick at least one bill, then we can roll.
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Nine ready to file. Onto it.

For each one: open Parliament's form, paste your text in from the boxes below, submit. You can also upload a .docx or .pdf in there if you'd rather. Mark each as filed when done.

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Ka pai. Nine voices into the public record - every single one counts.

Make yours louder by sending Yeah Nah to one mate - your group chat, your mum, the friend who's always talking politics.

[ 02 - how it works ]

Three short stages. Quicker than a coffee.

[ 01 ]

One onboarding.

Your name, your address, your email - once. The same details flow into every submission.

[ 02 ]

Nine unique submissions.

Each bill gets personalised text - different intro, framing, concerns in different order. Select committees group identical submissions as one. Yours won't be.

[ 03 ]

Guided filing.

Copy the text or download as .docx / .pdf. Open the Parliament form. Paste or upload. Mark done. Onto the next.

No cookies. No accounts. No personal data leaves your browser.

Yeah Nah is one HTML file you can read in five seconds (view-source). Generate, copy, file, close the tab. None of what you typed exists anywhere after that. No backend stores your name, email, address or submission content.

We do count anonymous totals (sessions, submissions generated, completion clicks) to see how Yeah Nah is being used. No names, emails, IPs or submission content is stored at any time.

[ 03 - share ]

Make it yours. Post it everywhere.

Pre-made tiles, free for anyone to post from their own account. Add your reason in the caption - share the love and the impact - these bills are stink and we need everyone submitting!

[ 04 - about ]

Why this exists.

Select committees are the one part of New Zealand's law-making process where ordinary people get to push back on government legislation before it's locked in. Each bill must invite written submissions. Each submission must be read. Volume matters; personalised submissions matter more.

The government has two environmental bills open right now, both closing 13 July. One opens conservation land to development and sale; the other blocks New Zealanders from holding big emitters to account in court for climate damage. Each requires its own submission, written from scratch.

Yeah Nah does the boring part - the framing, the structure, the formatting - so you can join the voices of disability advocates, family carers, civil liberties lawyers, iwi leaders, doctors, scientists and frontline social workers who have been saying what needs to be heard about these bills. It's evergreen: as the government rolls out new bills, we'll add them. As bills close, they come off.

No party. No funding. No data collection. Built in Aotearoa, open source, one HTML file. Fork it.

  • HostedPrivacy-respecting CDN. No cookies, no accounts, no third-party analytics.
  • DataNo personal data leaves your browser. Anonymous totals only (sessions, submissions generated, completion clicks) so we can see if Yeah Nah is being used. No names, emails, IPs or submission content stored.
  • On AIAI assisted in building this resource - without that help, getting Yeah Nah live in time for these submission deadlines would have taken resources our community doesn't have right now. No AI is active when you use the tool, and no AI was active at any point during your use of it. The paragraphs in each bill are built from the published work of named civic sources - researchers, advocates, frontline organisations, iwi, professional bodies, court rulings and the Bills themselves - quoted directly where we have a quote, with connective framing drafted with AI help to bring the immense amount of research together effectively. Every quote on every bill traces back to a source named in the sources section of this page. When you click generate, your browser picks paragraphs from that list based on the concerns you've ticked, slots in your name and details, and includes whatever personal experience or comments you've added. Every submission ends up a different combination, assembled just for you in the moment - and you can edit anything you want before you file. Nothing gets sent anywhere - not to AI, not to a server, not to us. Anyone curious can read every paragraph option in the page's underlying code.
  • Free useSource code is intentionally simple - a single HTML file with no tracking, no analytics, no cookies. If you want to fork it for a different campaign, copy the file. Built on the incredible work of definitionsbill.org - thank you!
[ 05 - sources ]

Sources.

Every claim in every submission this tool generates is grounded in primary documents and the people doing the work on these bills. Click any bill to see what we drew on. Cite them in your own submission. Verify them. Send them to anyone who doubts you.

Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Bill13 sources
Conservation Amendment Bill12 sources
  • NZ Parliament - Conservation Amendment Bill submission portalPrimary submission portal · closes 12pm (midday) 13 July 2026parliament.nz · Conservation Bill
  • Conservation Amendment Bill - full textGovernment Bill 309/2026 · legislation.govt.nzlegislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2026/309/en/latest
  • Beehive - Hon Tama Potaka, "Landmark Conservation Reform Bill will boost economy and protect nature"Government framing · 7 May 2026beehive.govt.nz · Conservation Bill announcement
  • Department of Conservation - Regulatory Impact StatementsDOC publishes a suite of separate RISs for this bill · purpose-statement amendments, concession allocation, visitor charging, land disposal etc.doc.govt.nz · RIS index
  • Forest & Bird - "Save Conservation Land" campaignNZ's largest conservation NGO · explainer + submission guide · warns sites including Cathedral Cove, Remutaka Ranges and Tunnel Beach could be exposed to disposalforestandbird.org.nz · Save Conservation Land
  • Anderson Lloyd (law firm) - legal analysis"Conservation Amendment Bill 2026: Big changes to New Zealand's 40-year-old conservation laws"al.nz · legal analysis
  • Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu - "Heads to court to protect Treaty Settlement"Kaiwhakahaere Justin Tipa · Treaty settlements treated as "a complete afterthought" · High Court challenge paused pending Bill's progressngaitahu.iwi.nz · heads to court
  • Green Party - Protect Conservation Land submission guideStep-by-step submission template · Lan Pham, conservation spokespersonaction.greens.org.nz · conservation submission guide
  • Federated Mountain Clubs of NZ - Modernising Conservation Land Management submissionTramping / outdoor access perspective · most recent published FMC positionfmc.org.nz · modernising conservation land
  • RNZ - "Opposition warns reforms open up conservation estate to sale" (13 May 2026)Russell Palmer · contains Labour spokesperson Priyanca Radhakrishnan's verbatim quote calling it "the most significant rollback of conservation protections in a generation"rnz.co.nz · opposition warns reforms
  • The Spinoff - "The quiet but major shift slipped in among the conservation law reforms"Investigative piece · 19 May 2026 · the Cabinet-directed amendment to the Act's purpose statement enabling economic developmentthespinoff.co.nz · the quiet but major shift
  • Te Ao Māori News - "Ngāi Tahu warns conservation reforms undermine Treaty settlements"Māni Dunlop · 14 May 2026 · primary Māori news coverageteaonews.co.nz · Ngāi Tahu warns
[ 06 - FAQ ]

Frequently asked.

If you're new to making a select committee submission, these are the quick answers.

What is Yeah Nah?

A free, independent tool that helps anyone in Aotearoa file submissions to NZ Parliament on the bills currently before select committees. Pick the bills you care about, pick the concerns you want to raise, add your own voice, and Yeah Nah builds a personalised submission you can paste into the Parliament form. No accounts. No tracking. No AI at runtime.

When do submissions close?

Each bill has its own deadline - you'll see them on each bill card. They run from June through to September 2026. Once a bill's submission window closes, it comes off Yeah Nah.

Who can make a submission?

Anyone. There's no age requirement and no NZ citizenship requirement. Submissions can be made in English, te reo Māori or New Zealand Sign Language. Your submission counts the same regardless of where you live or how old you are.

How long does it take?

About six minutes total. Pick the bills you care about, tick the concerns that matter, add your voice. Six minutes to push back on bills that took months to draft. Most people pick the bills that matter most to them rather than doing every one - that's the design working.

Will my submission be counted? Aren't form letters ignored?

Select committees do bucket identical submissions together. Yeah Nah is built around that fact. The paragraphs are written by researchers and advocates, not by you copying a template - and the generator picks a different combination for every user based on which concerns you ticked. Add your own personal note and edit the text before you file, and your submission lands as personalised. Personalised submissions are read.

Will my submission be made public?

Submissions to select committees are normally published as part of the parliamentary record. You can request that your name be withheld on the Parliament submission form - the committee considers reasonable privacy requests.

What does Yeah Nah do with my data?

Nothing leaves your browser. The site is a single HTML file. Your name, email, address, the text you write - none of it is sent anywhere, stored anywhere, or shared with anyone. The only thing Yeah Nah counts is anonymous totals: how many submissions have been generated, how many people have marked one as filed, that kind of thing. No personal identifiers attached.

Can I file on Parliament directly instead?

Yes, anytime. The Parliament submission forms are open to everyone. Yeah Nah just builds the submission text for you. You can copy that text and paste it into the form, file via email, or upload a .docx or .pdf - whatever works. We just shrink the "staring at a blank page" part.

Who built Yeah Nah?

Yeah Nah was built by a small group of committed friends in Aotearoa who saw harmful bills moving through Parliament at once and decided to make it easier for everyone to push back. Independent. Not party-affiliated. Not funded by any organisation.