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  • frog

    Podcast: How the Beautiful Game burns burns burns - by frog



    The Football World Cup is on our doorstep. In the world of sport, it doesn’t get any bigger than this. As the All Whites journey to South Africa to play amongst the great nations of football, I decided to find out if any of the Green MPs had a crazy mixed-up love relationship with the [...] read more
    June 10, 2010 8:02 am - 2 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Inside the welfare forum we were un-invited to - by Catherine Delahunty



    Today and tomorrow, the Welfare Working Group is hosting a forum on welfare issues to look at the big picture. It was advertised as open to the first 250 people who enrolled, and billed as bringing together “a diversity of opinions and experience”. Metiria and I immediately registered, along with one of our researchers, because [...] read more
    June 9, 2010 5:02 pm - 174 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Miss Universe contestants at Parliament - by Catherine Delahunty



    I missed Question Time yesterday as I had an important event to attend and it looks like I missed the highlight of the year: the crucial visit to Parliament by 13 Miss New Universe contestants. What a shame I wasn’t there to experience that particular embarrassment and humiliation. Apparently the presence of the contestants got [...] read more
    June 3, 2010 12:24 pm - 32 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    Inequality in Aotearoa: inequality and social mobility - by Metiria Turei



    You can’t move from rags to riches when there’s a yawning gap between rich and poor. Much of the post-Budget debate has been focused on whether John Key and Bill English’s prescription for the country’s finances will increase or decrease the gap between rich and poor. Despite assuring us that he cares about inequality, Mr [...] read more
    June 2, 2010 5:09 pm - 91 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    Erosion of environmental representation at ECan - by Russel Norman



    And so it begins… Forest and Bird revealed yesterday that the first local committee set up under the new ECan structure to consider the future of the Hurunui and Waiau river catchments was unlikely to have any members representing environmental concerns. I wish I could say I’m surprised, but with the Government’s not-so-hidden agenda for [...] read more
    June 1, 2010 4:45 pm - 17 Comments
  • Keith Locke

    Prejudice against Pasifika players offside - by Keith Locke



    The New Zealand Herald was right to call “offensive” Andy Haden’s suggestion that the Crusaders rugby team has done better by having fewer Polynesians in the team. After claiming the Crusaders had a quota of three Polynesian players Haden said “and it’s worked”. This prejudicial attitude is not new, particularly in Haden’s Auckland where some [...] read more
    May 30, 2010 12:33 pm - 46 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    Inequality in Aotearoa: Mind the Gap! - by Metiria Turei



    As you know, I’ve been writing a series of blog posts about Inequality in Aotearoa during April and May. I’ve also been working on ideas for solutions to the growing gap between rich and poor in New Zealand, and this morning I’ve launched a major package of eight practical ideas to reduce inequality. Here I [...] read more
    May 17, 2010 3:43 pm - 139 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    Inequality in Aotearoa: an idea whose time has come - by Metiria Turei



    A major feature of the UK election campaign whose results we’ve all been hanging off (and by the way why would we even contemplate a return to FPP given the grossly disproportionate result it’s produced over there?) was the importance of inequality. One of the Liberal Democrats’ key campaign planks was a tax-free threshold of [...] read more
    May 12, 2010 4:24 pm - 48 Comments
  • frog

    A hard ACT to follow - by frog



    It seems the infighting within the ACT Party is not confined just to Rodney Hide, Heather Roy, Roger Douglas and the Parliamentary wing. Following ACT on Campus President Rick Giles’ profound argument in denial of human induced climate change on TV3’s Sunrise earlier this week: I think my argument is so powerful, it’s not necessary to talk about it read more
    April 3, 2010 6:28 am - 18 Comments
  • frog

    Save your rivers, eat a New Zealand apple? - by frog



    Most people these days are used to thinking about the “carbon footprint” of consumer goods, and know about the concept of “food miles”. But have you ever thought about the “virtual water content” of your food? I hadn’t, so found this story in New Zealand Farmers Weekly quite fascinating. Apparently, about 6.5 litres of water [...] read more
    March 24, 2010 2:34 pm - 25 Comments
  • frog

    Factory farming reprieve - by frog



    Some fantastic news late last night – the companies applying to start factory-style dairy farms in the Mackenzie Country have shelved their effluent consent applications, citing costs. This is a real victory for the Greens, the environmental movement, and everyone who’s spoken up in opposition to the proposals since we revealed them in December. More [...] read more
    March 19, 2010 10:45 am - 27 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    “Reshaping” the Ministry of Education - by Catherine Delahunty



    I’m not a morning person at the best of times, and trying to understand what the Minister of Education was saying on “Morning Report” today about cuts to the Ministry of Education cuts was a true challenge. Is this an opposition beat up? Is the Minister directing the Ministry to cut administration services? Is it [...] read more
    March 11, 2010 11:02 am - 7 Comments
  • frog

    No global warming since 1995. Really? - by frog



    Here is a great summary of the danger of scientific reporting by the press, based on a recent example. The Daily Mail story mentioned in the video, and the BBC transcript. Compare for yourself I could link to a few blogs that blindly ran with the Daily Mail take on things, but that would be [...] read more
    February 23, 2010 9:26 am - 75 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    No boat ride for me and John - by Russel Norman



    My Dirty Rivers Rafting Tour is going so well that I invited the PM to join me. Since the launch on the Hutt River in late January, I have visited the Waihou in Waikato and the Taumarere in Northland, attracting some good local interest and starting some great conversations with locals about the state of [...] read more
    February 16, 2010 5:09 pm - 17 Comments
  • Kevin Hague

    New Conservation Minister off to a bad start with DOC review - by Kevin Hague



    The Press this morning carried the news that new Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson has ordered a review into the advocacy role of her department. The story is not online for some reason, so I’ve reproduced the first few paragraphs below: Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson has ordered an investigation into her department’s advocacy role – a [...] read more
    February 9, 2010 2:38 pm - 60 Comments
  • Keith Locke

    An open letter to Hillary Clinton - by Keith Locke



    Dear Secretary Clinton, The Green Party welcomes you to New Zealand. We are pleased that your administration is engaging with world problems in a more consultative and multilateral way than was the case with the previous Bush administration. We welcome the new direction President Obama has taken on nuclear disarmament, recognising that we need a [...] read more
    January 14, 2010 11:21 am - 25 Comments
  • Keith Locke

    Head of State opinion piece kicks off debate - by Keith Locke



    I received a good New Year present from the Dominion Post when they published my opinion piece on the Head of State Referenda Bill under the title “Hands up for a president of Aotearoa”. This has kicked off the debate I had hoped around my Head of State private members bill, which enables Kiwis to choose between keeping the monarch or moving towards a democratically selected head of state. read more
    January 6, 2010 2:49 pm - 165 Comments
  • frog

    John Key to BBC or not to BBC? - by frog



    Rumours in Copenhagen are that John Key has been bumped from the BBC’s Copenhagen debate tomorrow, billed as the ‘greatest debate on Earth.’ If so, he’s missed out on what Climate Change Minister Nick Smith has called a ‘huge honour:’ “Basically, what you’re looking for is a non-European developed country that’s seen to be constructive.” [...] read more
    December 16, 2009 1:56 pm - 9 Comments
  • frog

    Have your say on factory farm proposals - by frog



    The “battery cows” story rolls on this morning. The Greens have prepared a guide to making a submission against the consent applications, which close on 18 December. Read the submission guide here and have your say. read more
    December 8, 2009 11:59 am - 33 Comments
  • frog

    Come to Copenhagen, John! - by frog



    US President Barack Obama is going to Copenhagen next month. The more time goes by, the more John Key is sticking out like a sore thumb with his refusal to attend. Jeanette and Kennedy will be there for the NZ Greens – and as Russel cheekily suggested, they’re happy to help John Key find accommodation if he’s stuck at such late notice! read more
    November 26, 2009 4:54 pm - 26 Comments
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