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  • Catherine Delahunty

    Just when you thought girls could do anything - by Catherine Delahunty



    The front page of today’s Dominion Post carries the story of a Newlands college pupil who was told she “looked like a slut” for wearing her school skirt short by her school dean. The verbal apology that was given notwithstanding, this incident is very disturbing. As a former girl who formerly wore very short skirts [...] read more
    November 11, 2010 3:45 pm - 122 Comments
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    Meet the Candidates, Tukituki - by frog



    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 [...] read more
    October 10, 2008 11:51 am - 1 Comment
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    Rayna Fahey: “vote global vote green” - by frog



    Melbourne based Rayna Fahey, number 28 on the Green Party list, is looking for overseas votes: read more
    August 26, 2008 2:06 pm - 23 Comments
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    The Greens’ not so secret Australian political operatives - by frog



    Russell Brown over at Public Address seems to be obliquely fingering the Greens for using a political operative in 2002 in the same vein as Crosby Textor: Political strategy is a cynical business by its nature. Labour’s people were not appealing to higher ideals when they ran the “slippery” campaign against Key this year. Even [...] read more
    June 30, 2008 4:54 pm - 23 Comments
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    Growling grass frog causes political argument in Aussie - by frog



    Victorian Planning Minister Justin Madden wanted to build a 70 kilometre water pipeway from the Goulburn Valley into Melbourne. To help this process along he decided not to ask for an Environmental Effects Statement on the pipeline last December. This seemed like it would be bad news for several endangered species including a striped legless [...] read more
    February 29, 2008 12:50 pm - No Comments