Defence Review
Release of the Defence Review Submissions received from the Public and Youth
Copies of youth and public submissions as part of the Defence Review have now been made available to view online.
All personal information for those that made submissions as part of the Defence Review have been withheld.
One hundred and forty three (143) youth submissions were received during the consultation process. A number of these submissions were received via an online submission process and are not included in the release of documents.
All submitters were advised during the course of the review process that submissions would be subject to the Official Information Act 1992 and that they would be made available on request.
With regards to the following documents, some deletions have been made under the provisions of the following section of the Official Information Act:
- Section 6 (a): where information would be likely to prejudice the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the government of New Zealand
- Section 9 (2) (b) (ii): would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information
- Section 9 (2) (a): protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of deceased natural persons.
Youth submissions
Please note the following links are all in pdf format and include watermark 'Released Under the Official Information Act':
[Document source: Members of the public - youth]
Public submissions
Please note the following links are all in pdf format and include watermark 'Released Under the Official Information Act':
[Document source: Members of the public]
Related links
- View the Public Consultation document
- View the Defence Review Consultation Summary of Submissions
- View the Defence Review 2009 - What did young people say? (Document source: Ministry of Youth Development (MYD) - link to MYD website), (MYD summary report in pdf format 104kb)
- View the Defence Review 2009 - Youth Consultation Report (Document source: Ministry of Youth Development - pdf format 249kb)

