Archive for the 'THE GAME' Category

Canadian Green Party - Shift happens

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Continuing my sporadic series of political ads from Green parties in other parts of the world, here’s a rather inexpensive but quite sweet one from a small corner of Canada.

Canada has an election this week and the Green Party is polling well despite a completely unfair electoral system similar to that which New Zealand used […]

The secret tape of Russel - just released

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Beaches & pies

Friday, October 10th, 2008

A bit more from Lizzie Gillett, as she checks out what London ex-pats miss about New Zealand:

Lizzie’s campaign to save the climate

Friday, October 10th, 2008

NZ Inspired, a British magazine for NZ ex-pats, has an article this month on Kiwi film maker and Green Party candidate Lizzie Gillett. Lizzie has just finished creating the climate change blockbuster, The Age of Stupid. The film features Pete Postlethwaite in the year 2055:
watching archive footage from 2007 (documentary footage of six characters […]

Meet the Candidates, Tukituki

Friday, October 10th, 2008

The Bay Buzz covered a local Forest and Bird candidate debate in the Tukituki electorate last night.  It seems the sitting MPs tried to dominate the event:
It was mostly the Rick[Barker, Labour] and Craig [Foss, National] show, with an occasional reminder from expert witness Quentin [Duthie] that without the Greens around as babysitter, the children […]

Greens on 9 percent

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Roy, you sweet talker! I really want to believe you.  But you do look a little like a roguish statistical outlier. Nonetheless the upward trend for the Greens in the polls continues, which is good.
9 percent is youth activist Gareth Hughes, and not that much further to also get food and agriculture campaigner Steffan Browning […]

The workers’ rights debate

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Yesterday’s CTU employment relations debate was reported as feisty, but it felt fairly tame compared to union election debates of yore.  There were a couple of heckles, mostly just rude and abusive rather than the traditionally to be expected gruffly humorous or vaguely threatening.  There were a plethora leaflets being handed out from the Greens, […]

Assessing the old parties

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Russel and Jeanette have just announced the criteria that they will be using to judge which of the ‘old parties’ the Greens would prefer to work with after the election.
Labour and National will be assessed against the Greens’ four charter principles – environmental sustainability, social justice, peace and democracy; and in accordance with these 12 […]

Give Russel more muscle

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

 This cartoon on g.blog has apparently been circulating around Russel’s Rongotai electorate.

TV commercials

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

The Green Party television commercials are being screened from today on TV One, TV 3, Channel 4, Sky, Maori Television and Alt TV.

The rest of the ads are available here.