Democracies need constant reform to stay strong. New Zealand has the chance to do that

Pedestrians walk past the Beehive, New Zealand’s parliament building, in Wellington. Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

Democracy is a human right that in many ways underpins all other rights.

But the symptoms of weakened democracy are all around us. Even here, in New Zealand, where we have one of the world’s least corrupt and most stable democracies, we’re not getting it right.