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 [...]
There is an interesting conversation going on at Just Left regarding the punish/reform debate so thought it might be timely to point people towards an article that Nandor wrote for the Herald earlier this year called ‘Lot more to it than longer sentences.’ It’s a good thought-provoking article, I recommend a read.
The Green Party has managed a major win over the last 24 hours with the Prisoners and Victims Claims Bill. It sounds like United Future had the Government over the barrel and wanted them to remove the Prisoner part of the bill out. The Government weren’t having a bar of it so they went to [...]
So today New Zealand First launched their immigration policy at the Orewa Grey Power this afternoon.
An executive summary of his speech is as follows:
Nationalism
Patriotism
Nationalism
Patriotism
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
BIGOTRY
FEAR
FEAR
They don’t even speak ENGLISH!!
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
“Now, whenever we raise this issue we get accused of being racist or xenophobic.
However, we raise it for one simple reason.
We actually have a choice about these demographic [...]
So Forest and Bird like it. Business NZ don’t. Hardly any surprises there.
What’s most interesting is the silent response from the government. This can only be read as a good thing. Usually if a party puts out a policy, you get one of two responses.
1. Condemnation. This almost always [...]
Green Party Energy Policy launch
Originally uploaded by kakariki.
I went to the launch of the Green Party energy launch today. You can read a summary of it here.
Got some damn smart stuff in it, especially the commitment to developing the solar industry with a view towards half a million solar panels for homes across Aotearoa. [...]
So this year is the 30th anniversary of the International Year of the Woman. This time 30 years ago women from all over New Zealand converged on Wellington for the national Women’s Convention. So this year another convention is being held to celebrate and evaluate the gains made for women since then and [...]
It was out of it last week, I was out on the street helping with the Trans-Tasman Green campaign to lobby the Japanese to pull their heads in over their push to increase their ’scientific’ whaling take. And all these people told me that ‘Save The Whales’ was such an old slogan and we [...]
So Thursday was one of those exciting days for political geeks like myself. Yes folks, Budget Day.
So what was in it?
um
yawn
Oh shit, sorry I’m awake now.
So the big story was the announcement of a new work based savings scheme for retirement and for first home buyers. This is in recognition that we’re REALLY [...]
NRT discussed the season for seasonal workers issues. I agree wholeheartedly about the issues in regards to pay. But it’s not just pay, there are some extreme renegade employers out there. I had a friend working on an orchard in Motueka a few years ago and the supervisor drove around the orchard [...]
Hmm
That cheeky Robson got his Bill pulled out to raise the drinking age back up. It might make first reading tonight but depends on how quick they go through the order paper.
From the Bill:
This bill amends the Sale of Liquor Act 1989 to raise the drinking age to 20 years, strengthen the provisions relating [...]
So I think something got slipped in the water this week. Everyone’s gone mental.
Firstly Maurice Williamson answered the mystery as to how the Nat’s are planning on paying for all these roads, with magic! Cause, like, you know, motorists pay all this money into roading and it all mysteriously vanishes. Never [...]
The Green Party and LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa have collaborated yet again on the fourth and final Green Room album, Green Room 004: Hope. And it rocks.
I managed to get my hands on a pre-release version and have been listening to it non-stop. Especially since it has my favourite song of all time (and [...]
The Green’s new blog frogblog has gone live today.
Frog’s release below:
Hopping around the corridors of power
Well, I have to say that the Green Parliamentary Office is much more fun when all the MPs aren’t here.
I’ve finally worked out how to type with my pads, so now I can hop into my self-appointed role as the [...]
Anderton’s release here. Herald story. And Stuff story.
So yeah it is the Medicines Act that this is happening under. This has come from a Crown Law decision that under the MA, nitrous for sale as a recreational drug is illegal. However, there are still other ways it can be sold, ie [...]
Span has a thread going about the relevance of breeding habits. I must say I totally agree. If it is such a big deal, how come it’s only now we have a female PM?
And I must say, the argument that being childless means your out of touch of the realities of parents doesn’t [...]
Newstalk has this story about Anderton announcing the prohibition of Nitrous Oxide.
This is about one of the most ridiculous things I have heard in a long time. Now I would certainly support restrictions on sale and promotion, but banning it? What the hell is he doing? I understand that One News ran [...]
So last week the Jakarta Post ran this story:
Separatist protest mars Susilo visit to NZ
Rendi A.Witular, The Jakarta Post, Wellington
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono began his two-day visit on Wednesday to New Zealand aimed at boosting trade and regional security, amid two separatist protests against Indonesia that marred his arrival.
During their talks, Susilo and New Zealand [...]
