Archive for March, 2008

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    Greymouth swings Green



    The Greymouth Star is running a poll on who its readers will be voting for in this year’s general election. Now that I’ve linked to it, and before you North Island Herald readers all race of to vote in it and thus distort its accuracy, let me record for posterity a snapshot of political [...] read more
    March 31, 2008 3:33 pm - 43 Comments
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    Greenpeace, climate change and agriculture



    One of things that most strongly differentiates the Green Party’s holistic approach to dealing with climate change from other parties is that it does not have a blind spot on the issue of agriculture [pdf].Greenpeace, in it’s survey of political parties policies on climate change, asked all parties whether the farming sector or taxpayers should [...] read more
    March 31, 2008 12:02 pm - 12 Comments
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    Greenpeace’s Politics of Climate Change



    Greenpeace has just released political survey: Politics of Climate Change; Where New Zealand’s Political Parties Stand on the Biggest Challenge We Face. The Greens do well in the survey getting climate friendly rankings in all of Greennpeace’s twenty criteria.  But it looks like Green MPs may be struggling to find a similarly responsible party to work [...] read more
    March 31, 2008 11:31 am - 7 Comments
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    20 days to have your say on preferential trade with China



    You would probably expect me to be jumping up and down about these poll figures: Asked if they supported New Zealand signing a free trade agreement with China, 44.7 per cent of those questioned in the DigiPoll survey said they did. Just about a third – 32.4 per cent – said no, while 22.9 per cent [...] read more
    March 31, 2008 9:54 am - 32 Comments
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    For appearance’s sake



    The Green Party is in the unique position that 2/3rds of our MPs are women. So one of the things I really notice in the parliamentary precinct is the way those women are judged on their appearance, clothes and hair style in a way that men never are. Some of the attacks [...] read more
    March 29, 2008 7:23 pm - 28 Comments
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    The Herald poll



    Well, 3.9% is fairly depressing. It seems the Greens have lost/misplaced half a percent to either the Kiwi Party or Act (up 0.4% and 0.7% respectively). Oops. Expect to see Metiria introduce our Abolition of All Swearwords and Taxes Bill to the house next week. Seriously though, we can’t worry too much because the [...] read more
    March 29, 2008 7:22 pm - 37 Comments
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    Tibetan Rights Are Not For Sale



    This video from Green Party MP Keith Locke says it all. read more
    March 28, 2008 4:03 pm - 2 Comments
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    Kerr is a contrarian, even with himself



    In a gloriously hypocritical about-face, the Business Roundtable announced today that a carbon tax would be better for business and the environment. In today’s Orwellian press release; Saving the Planet Must Not Cost the Earth, Kerr paints the Australians as having spent considerably more time than we have in evaluating their version of the ETS [...] read more
    March 28, 2008 2:21 pm - 9 Comments
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    The Wilkins Ice Shelf



    Pretty. Sad. Pretty sad. read more
    March 28, 2008 2:20 pm - 49 Comments
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    The price of bread



    National Radio had an item on the rising price of bread this morning. Much of the reason given was droughts in Australia and overseas use of crop land for biofuels. Now, bread should be something that we are able to supply relatively easily. After all it’s mostly made from things we should be [...] read more
    March 28, 2008 1:56 pm - 7 Comments
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