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    Chicken Nats afraid to front on Back Benches - by frog



    Wallace Chapman of TVNZ7′s Back Benches programme gave a not too subtle hint to the Nats that they really might want to front up to the programme again, despite the disastrous policy gaffes and leaks of the last few weeks. On this week’s show, he opened with: National have declined to be on the show [...] read more
    September 12, 2008 12:03 pm - 22 Comments
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    Did the Nats leave the Maori Party at the altar? - by frog



    There has been a whirlwind of interest and speculation as to why the National party pulled support at the last moment for a Maori Party amendment to the Emissions Trading legislation. The amendment would have inserted a clause giving effect to the Treaty of Waitangi as well as a targeted review of the effect of [...] read more
    September 11, 2008 4:32 pm - 137 Comments
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    Carbon emitters please queue here - by frog



    If there are any other sectors of the economy that have not taken much action in the last few years to cut your carbon emissions and would like a last minute reprieve would you please form an orderly queue outside the 9th floor of the Beehive and await your turn to receive your government climate [...] read more
    May 6, 2008 9:14 am - 27 Comments
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    Kerr is a contrarian, even with himself - by frog



    In a gloriously hypocritical about-face, the Business Roundtable announced today that a carbon tax would be better for business and the environment. In today’s Orwellian press release; Saving the Planet Must Not Cost the Earth, Kerr paints the Australians as having spent considerably more time than we have in evaluating their version of the ETS [...] read more
    March 28, 2008 2:21 pm - 9 Comments