Media Archive

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  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
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  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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  The world catches on to New Zealand’s shameless greenwash - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  It looks like the rest of the world is catching on to New Zealand’s dirty little secret: we trade off our “clean green” “100% pure” image, when in fact our environmental record has been anything but. I guess we were hoping our export partners and potential tourists wouldn’t notice, but it just got pointed out [...] read more
  November 13, 2009 10:48 am - 91 Comments
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  NZ Govt risks apostrophe war in archipelago - by frog

  
  
  
  Someone wise once said that the word is more powerful than the sword, and today’s Government statement could be seen as a desperate and venal attempt by the New Zealand Government to provoke Indonesia. read more
  October 18, 2009 5:39 pm - 12 Comments
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  RadioNZ’s coffee must be ‘absirdly’ good - by frog

  
  
  
  Radio New Zealand’s new encrypted headlines communicate secret SAS locations. read more
  October 5, 2009 9:11 am - 6 Comments
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  Tadpoles listen up: Granny Herald gives sage advice on climate change - by frog

  
  
  
  Image by Lyndon Hood My Friday night tipple of lily pad liqueur (but just the one, cos I’m a responsible frog) will be raised to Granny Herald, who today ran a sane and responsible editorial on climate change. Granny concludes: The world has become far more environmentally conscious. We cannot afford to be seen as [...] read more
  August 7, 2009 11:53 am - 9 Comments
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  Using the Force? Make sure it’s legal - by frog

  
  
  
  A bit of culture jamming is what you need to show that people are, in fact, paying attention. So it was when Scoop’s Gordon Campbell wrote up Kennedy Graham’s International Non-Aggression and Lawful Use of Force Bill, which was released last week. I’m not sure who to credit for the photo, beyond scoop, but if [...] read more
  July 13, 2009 2:57 pm - 30 Comments
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  There She Goes: Jeanette Steps Down - by frog

  
  
  
  As the Green Party AGM approaches, Jeanette Fitzsimons enjoys her last few days as the Co-leader of the Greens. I wondered what must be going through her mind as she readies herself to hand over the reins of power? What have been some of her highlights? Who are some of the people she most admires? [...] read more
  May 27, 2009 8:22 am - 94 Comments
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  Bouquet’s for Green Councillors and Brickbats for Basin Flyover - by frog

  
  
  
  I want to give a big green anti-histamine free bouquet to the Green Councillors on the Wellington City Council. Long serving WCC stalwart Celia Wade-Brown and relative newbie Iona Pannett got the big thumbs up for their regional representation in the Wellingtonian’s Wellington city councillors’ mid-term report. Now given the good words written about Iona [...] read more
  April 17, 2009 10:46 am - 18 Comments
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  Morning Sickness: NZ’s Real Life David Brent - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  What a great way to start the day! What if a woman woke up feeling pretty okay about herself and then accidentally watched “Breakfast” on Wednesday March 25? Let it be a warning to all women who are too small, too large, too muscular, and too weak at the knees, too bald, too hairy, and [...] read more
  March 27, 2009 10:35 am - 133 Comments
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  Dr Coleman Saves NZ from Totalitarian TV! - by frog

  
  
  
  Image crafted by Lyndon Hood New Zealand’s chances of turning into North Körea got a little bit slimmer thanks to the current Government’s plan to cancel the TVNZ charter. In 2003 when the then Labour government introduced the TVNZ Charter aimed at bolstering our national identity I thought yippee.  National identity bolstering is good stuff.  [...] read more
  March 27, 2009 9:22 am - 16 Comments
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  Razor Gangs Launch Assault On State Workers - by Sue Kedgley

  
  
  
  It’s just as well Stephen Franks didn’t make it to Parliament as an MP. He repeatedly promised Wellingtonians that there would be NO CUTS to the PUBLIC SERVICE – at public meeting after public meeting in Wellington All there could be, he promised Wellington voters, was some switch from ‘unnecessary administrators’ to ‘front line services.’ [...] read more
  March 18, 2009 11:00 am - 45 Comments
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  Greens And Granny Herald Subs Stop Potential Port Sale - by frog

  
  
  
  Image crafted by Lyndon Hood ***** This morning I just about choked on my breakfast of lilies and insects as I was reading the New Zealand Herald (online version). The Herald had an article implying that the Ports Of Auckland chairman Gary Judd thought now – as in right in the middle of an economic [...] read more
  March 11, 2009 6:13 pm - 7 Comments
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  Has Murray Banned Aid? - by frog

  
  
  
  Image crafted by Lyndon Hood *****I’m keen to see whether the kiwi media will be knocking at Foreign Minister Murray McCully’s door and ask him what on earth he is up to with his shake-up of New Zealand’s aid to some of the poorest people in our region. I nearly tripped over ‘his Muzzness’ as [...] read more
  March 10, 2009 4:24 pm - 11 Comments
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  The Tale of Sheriff Garrett and his Judge Dreddful Law - by frog

  
  
  
  I reckon new ACT MP David Garrett has been inspired by the George Bush/Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld school of lawmaking when he drafted his “three strikes and you’re out” law. When told that his bill may breach the Bill of Rights Mr Garrett apparently suggested the Bill of Rights should be amended not his law.This is [...] read more
  March 3, 2009 2:41 pm - 24 Comments
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  No Minister! Sir Humphrey Can Recycle Too - by frog

  
  
  
  The Sir Humphreys of the Beehive need to do their bit for recycling *****Good investigative digging from the Herald on Sunday has unearthed the shocking news that the Environment Minister Nick Smith thinks it is a “horror story” that senior bureaucrats may be taught how to recycle their garbage! “I’ve heard horror stories of senior [...] read more
  March 2, 2009 12:46 pm - 8 Comments
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  A farewell salute from Tom Tomorrow - by frog

  
  
  
  I could not resist this cartoon over at Salon.com …   read more
  January 22, 2009 3:34 pm - 19 Comments
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  Focus on Pharmac - by frog

  
  
  
  Rarely are so few asked to do so much with so little for the benefit of so many, who are ungrateful. That’s how I would describe Pharmac’s calling. Today’s Sunday Star Times spends an inordinate amount of column inches discussing the challenges Pharmac faces. Or does it? The unattributed comment piece on A11, “Pharmac’s $635 [...] read more
  November 30, 2008 1:45 pm - 37 Comments
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  David Tennant uses pianist’s skull in Hamlet - by frog

  
  
  
  A lovely story from the Telegraph to lighten your Friday: When André Tchaíkowsky died of cancer in 1982 aged 46 he donated his body for medical science. But he added the proviso that his skull “shall be offered by the institution receiving my body to the Royal Shakespeare Company for use in theatrical performance.” Since [...] read more
  November 28, 2008 2:41 pm - 7 Comments
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  A two horse race that’s about to become a one horse race - by frog

  
  
  
  The next 24 hours are everyone’s enforced break from New Zealand election news with the Melbourne Cup and the US election results likely to dominate the front pages of the newspapers.  Horses are of course an environmentally friendly form of transport but I must confess I don’t know a lot about racing them.  I see [...] read more
  November 4, 2008 10:35 am - 5 Comments