Tomorrow I will present my 37 thousand signature petition calling for mandatory country of origin labelling of all fresh and single component food to the Health Select Committee.
It’s hard to believe that both the Labour and National parties oppose something as basic as our right to know where our food comes from. We have country […]
08wire is getting impatient for the Greens to say before the election, as we have promised to do, which political parties we can and cannot work with after the election. (08wire is not showing any impatience with Labour’s plan to not say who it will want to work with until after the election.)
Anyway 08, more […]
It seems, according to a Chinese delegation here in NZ this week, that we were mistaken about state violence in Tibet earlier this year:
Delegation leader Shes-rab-nyi-ma, vice-president of Beijing’s Central University for Nationalities, said they wanted to correct erroneous reports of a violent crackdown on Tibet. The delegates wanted to show “the real […]
I had been watching gblog waiting for it to get it’s stable of writers into action, but it seems No Right Turn and Beehive Buzz have already discovered it so I may as well point out it’s existence too.
gblog is a community for all Green Party members to share their thoughts with the New Zealand […]
Much was made yesterday of the arrest of Bailey Junior Kurariki for breach of bail. Apparently
the state machinery used a helicopter and 30 police officers to go to his house and take him away. Apparently the cops didn’t even bother to search the house, which is odd given the breach was reportedly […]
There’s an interesting debate here in The Press this morning about the Teachers Council’s process for monitoring teachers’ registration and how it might relate to teachers’ private lives and especially on-line records:
The new clause in the Teachers Council code brings censure for “any conduct that brings or is likely to bring discredit to the profession”.
PPTA […]