Celebration of the life of Rod Donald
The Melbourne-based Aotearoa Greens would like to invite all Victoria Greens, ex-pat kiwis and other environmentalists to celebrate the life of Rod Donald MP.
Rod Donald was Co-Leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and passed away suddenly on the 6th of November.
Rod was well-known to many Australians [...]
I wrote this a few days ago but didn’t manage to quite finish/proof it. Perceptions have changed a wee bit since coming to Melbourne, but a lot of it’s still pretty valid.
I really don’t know what to make of this place.
Actually I do. For the first time in my ‘grown-up’ life I get [...]
I think one of the hardest things about moving to another country is when you’re not long gone and you hear the news of a friend or family members death. I was woken this morning by a phone call to inform me that Rod passed away last night.
I honestly don’t know how I feel [...]
For those of you who missed it, Francis Till from the NBR wrote an extensive article critiquing the Green position on OSS, and it was, to put it nicely completely full of shit. Frog had a good go trashing the arguments and a number of the comments on that post are very interesting as [...]
Yesterday some lucky punter (who happens to be from Corinda, Queensland, Australia, is using Win XP, Firefox and has a 1024×768 resolution monitor, but only stayed for 2 seconds!) was the 10,000th visitor to this website! How exciting! So big thank you to all of you out there who come and read what [...]
Thanks to those of you who noticed my absence. I have had some personal stuff to deal with (aak! who let real life get in the way of my blogging habit!) and I was waiting for the specials to be counted before sharing my thoughts.
Those of you who read this blog will probably guess [...]
Isn’t it funny how on Blogger just above the text box is the ‘recover post’ link, this is kind of like a recovery post. So the election is finally over, sort of. And thank god the initial media frenzy around the potential government discussions has calmed down, I think they all finally figured [...]
So it’s over 100% of votes counted and Labour has the majority. Here comes Helen for her speech…
Yay thank you mainstream New Zealand! (although I would say fuck the mainstream, I’m part of a braided river).
I am a wee bit sad that the Green vote has dropped a bit and the idea of parliament [...]
Yay this is getting better. Did have a few issues with the Greens being below 5% and the gap between the major two parties but went out for a bit and things got a whole lot better!
And the one big surprise? Rodney’s actually kicking ass!
And Blumsky has conceded. yay!
And we are now watching [...]
Tomorrow the people of Aotearoa will go to the polls to decide the fate of the nation for the next three years and in some policy areas, beyond that. This campaign has been the closest in my memory and probably the dirtiest. It has been long and gruelling and very tiring. But [...]
I’m sure you’re all aware of the smear leaflet (if not, check out frog)
I must congratulate Jeanette on her handling of this one. The Green reaction definitely shows a political maturing. In 1999 and 2002 there were a number of leaflets distributed about the Greens. My personal favourite was the leaflet distributed [...]
That was me going a bit busy for a while. So time for an update.
Isn’t the weather lovely!
Last weekend I went to the Radio NZ minor party leaders debate at Circa Theatre in Wellington. And I must say what a refreshing debate it was! They were such a polite bunch of well-mannered [...]
I am absolutely horrified at Don’s pathetic justification of his performance on the Leaders Debate last night. I mean, c’mon! What century is he living in? He restrained himself because Helen is a woman?
What I am wondering is what he actually hopes to achieve by this statement. Hypotheses as follows:
1) [...]
It appears that United Future has lost the plot. Not sure what’s going on but for a sensible common-sense party, they are getting rather loopy.
First of all Mr Dunne delivered a speech to the Wellington Rotary club today claiming that it’s all doom and gloom with a Green/Labour or NZ First/Labour coalition. In [...]
Sorry this took awhile, I got a bit verbose as you can see…
So we finally have a decision on having the little boys on and I was rather entertained by the placement that they got. But to the debate itself. I got to sit around watching it with a bunch of Greenies and anarchists, [...]
To celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, the Greens have launched their first billboard. I think it’s gorgeous! Metiria said
“This billboard is a tongue-in-cheek representation of a whakatauki - sometimes translated as ‘many hands make light work’,” Mrs Turei says.“It describes the Greens commitment to work together with tangata whenua on te [...]
So Richard Prebble made his validictory speech to parliament today. And it was classic Prebble! He told some absolutely hilarious stories and got pretty emotional too.
Now this might scare some of my buddies but I must say well done Richard, I’ll miss ya.
Richard Prebble is someone who is probably as far away from [...]
Yes folks, lucky Wellington (well, Lower Hutt) is getting a visit from the Nation Under Seige tour on Friday night.
Hope they’ve got a big venue cause people are going to flock to this one. Mind you I think quite a few of them will be outside and staying there, loudly.
But seriously, have you seen what [...]
Apologies for the lack of posting, think posting will be a bit less frequent for a while..
Anyhoo, some stuff…
Did you see this on Thursday night? It was cool!
Big ups to Tze Ming Mok yet another brilliantly written piece. I’ve been finding her posts incredibly interesting, informative and damn funny!
Left and Lefter has some [...]
The highlight of Saturday for me was the launch of the Green Student Support Policy and eCard campaign. I must say, I’m so impressed with it. The policy was rewritten for this election to reflect the progress in student support policy over the last few years. In 1999 and 2002 when the [...]
