Archive for March 31st, 2008

Greymouth swings Green

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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 […]

Greenpeace, climate change and agriculture

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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 […]

Greenpeace’s Politics of Climate Change

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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 […]

20 days to have your say on preferential trade with China

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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 […]