In addition to the general public, the organisation's membership includes a number of academics as well as numerous lawyers and political figures.

[10] In 2002, the group campaigned against the abolition of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and against the creation of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

It is a consequence of a child-centred education system which tells people they can become pop stars, high court judges or brilliant TV presenters or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having the natural ability."

[14] Also in 2009 the group described the decision by John Key's National Government to allow the Tino Rangatiratanga flag to fly from public buildings on Waitangi Day as "potentially divisive".

[17] Former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives Sir Peter Tapsell was patron of the organisation from 2000 until his death in 2012.