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    Green Party List features new female faces - by frog



    Some notable new women feature well up the Greens list rankings for the November election. The retirement of Jeanette Fitzsimons and Sue Bradford and the pending retirement of Sue Kedgley has made room for the very capable Cantabrian Eugenie Sage, the wonderful Wellingtonian Jan Logie and the accomplished Aucklander Denise Roche. Of course, the inimitable [...] read more
    May 29, 2011 7:40 am - 19 Comments
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    List ranking under way - by frog



    List ranking is under way in the Green Party. Ballot papers, candidate biographies and an Initial List have just gone out to members. The Initial List was formed by the votes of branch delegates and the candidates themselves, following the Green Party conference in Auckland in early February. At the conference Green candidates presented themselves to delegates [...] read more
    April 4, 2011 4:53 pm - 20 Comments
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    Business experience - by frog



    I noticed a few frogblog comments recently perpetuating the false belief that the Green Party knows nothing about and has no experience of business.  I’ve always thought this was a bit of a fallacious argument – implying also that National does not have enough experience in, say, conservation to be allowed to govern on that [...] read more
    July 9, 2008 10:46 am - 156 Comments
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    Free publicity for Green candidates at Kiwiblog - by frog



    It’s nice to see over at Kiwiblog that David Farrar is continuing to profile up and coming Green candidates, Kevin Hague, Craig Carson, Mikaere Curtis and Virginia Horrocks. I’m looking forward to seeing what other gestures of cross party cooperation he is going to share with his reading public. Luckily he has promised another post [...] read more
    April 18, 2008 8:37 am - 7 Comments
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    The Green Party list - by frog



    There’s some discussion on Kiwiblog about the Green Party’s candidate list for the election this year. It’s probably an important point to make that the Green’s list is determined by every party member getting to vote on the list position of every candidate. As I said previously it’s a bit like a US primary. Unlike [...] read more
    April 3, 2008 9:36 pm - 21 Comments