mmp Archive

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  Good Green gains in final election results - by frog

  
  
  
  The final election results are out, and the great news is that the Greens have achieved an historic high of 11.06% of the party vote.  That gives us one additional MP to the election night count – the talented Mojo Mathers. Mojo’s election will cause a shake-up in the way things work around Parliament.  Shamefully, [...] read more
  December 10, 2011 9:50 pm - 5 Comments
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  Ohariu: deal or no deal? - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  There’s been a lot of talk lately on electorate deals and I’d like to put myself on the record as the Green Party candidate standing in Ōhariu. read more
  July 24, 2011 7:51 pm - 15 Comments
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  Anti-MMP forces look like they are going to play dirty - by frog

  
  
  
  Over at g.blog Toad highlights some appalling disinformation about the MMP referendum from Cameron (Whaleoil) Slater: Cameron Slater, most likely deliberately, has got it completely wrong on the MMP referendum. Slater blogs: Some peo­ple are already sug­gest­ing that MMP should be reformed but that is not the ques­tion in this ref­er­en­dum. What we are being [...] read more
  June 29, 2011 3:44 pm - 11 Comments
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  MMP referendum information campaign under way - by frog

  
  
  
  The information campaign for the MMP referendum has been announced today. There is a wealth of information on the Electoral Commission website that is worth checking out – remember the future of our democracy is at stake here! We think MMP is the fairest system as it makes everyone’s vote count equally no matter where [...] read more
  May 26, 2011 3:33 pm - 14 Comments
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  Cleaning up our country – toxic sites - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  The “100% Pure New Zealand” myth has long been busted but work to clean up the country has lagged behind for many years. This is partly because it costs real money to tackle our worst problems such as the roughly 20,000 contaminated sites across the country. One of the reasons I stood for Parliament was [...] read more
  May 26, 2011 9:06 am - 5 Comments
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  NZ Herald: MMP deserves to survive referendum - by frog

  
  
  
  Today’s NZ Herald editorial reflects on the outcome of the UK referendum on Preferential Voting as an alternative to First Past the Post and saying how ‘lucky we are’ to have managed the reform of our 19th Century unfair First Past the Post (FPP) system. The arguments for electoral reform were familiar to New Zealanders. [...] read more
  May 11, 2011 1:09 pm - 9 Comments
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  MMP leads the way - by frog

  
  
  
  It is great to see MMP leading in the latest referendum poll. MMP is a much fairer electoral system than First Past the Post. Under MMP the amount of votes a party gets determines how many seats it gets. It is a proportional system which means that there is no chance of an unfair or [...] read more
  May 10, 2011 10:32 am - 8 Comments
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  Don Brash and SM - by frog

  
  
  
  To be clear this is isn’t a blog post about Don Brash’s sexual predilections. It is about Don Brash’s call for supplementary member electoral system (SM) to replace MMP. It looks like Don and his rich right wing business buddies have decided that reselling FPP is too hard. So they have gone for supplementary member voting system which is [...] read more
  May 5, 2011 10:30 am - 10 Comments
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  Congratulations Canadian Green Party - by Kennedy Graham

  
  
  
  It is great to see that Elizabeth May has won the Canadian Green Party’s first seat in the Canadian Parliament. The NZ Greens offer her our heartfelt congratulations on such an extraordinary accomplishment.  We wish her the best in holding the Conservative Party to account. I lived in Canada (Ottawa) for three years a while [...] read more
  May 4, 2011 1:19 pm - 5 Comments
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  Ugly, inaccurate and incomprehensible - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  This unidentified billboard has appeared in Cable Street: ugly, inaccurate and incomprehensible.  Perhaps that’s why no one was prepared to put their name to it.  I can only guess that it is has been paid for by the First-Past-the-Post lobby that is pushing to get rid of proportional electoral systems. It seems to lament the [...] read more
  October 19, 2010 3:35 pm - 28 Comments
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  Australia has a Government, but needs to consider electoral reform - by frog

  
  
  
  The decision of Independent MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor to support Labor has given Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard the numbers to govern. Their decision follows those of the sole Green Party House of Representatives MP Adam Bandt and former Tasmanian Green Andrew Wilkie (who was elected as an independent) to also support Labor [...] read more
  September 7, 2010 6:41 pm - 10 Comments
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  An MMP moment in the House - by frog

  
  
  
  In a moment straight out of Hollywood and a demonstration of an MMP Parliament working as it should, the Minister walks into the Chamber with a handwritten amendment to the Bill… Minister Simon Power was persuaded by the debate in the House to amend the legislation under discussion. The right of the accused person to [...] read more
  July 2, 2010 4:32 pm - 4 Comments
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  Once lost, integrity in one’s democracy cannot be easily restored - by frog

  
  
  
  The MPs on the Electoral Legislation Select Committee need to treat the threat to democracy posed by unfettered campaign spending seriously, and listen to New Zealanders urging spending limits for the 2011 electoral referendum. read more
  June 25, 2010 5:10 pm - 8 Comments
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  Last day to make a submission on MMP! - by frog

  
  
  
  Last day to make a submission on the MMP refeferendum bill, go on do it! The bill needs to set up spending caps to make sure the  referendum is a battle of ideas not money. Our submission guide If the online form on the parliamentary web site doesn’t work, then use our one instead. read more
  June 10, 2010 11:35 am - 1 Comment
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  MMP referendum bill – 6 days left to make a submission - by frog

  
  
  
  The fight to keep MMP is on. The bill to set up the MMP referendum is now at Select Committee. You have a chance to have your say by making a submission – do it now submissions close next week on Thursday 10 June. If you are keen to make a submission, check out our [...] read more
  June 4, 2010 11:05 am - 3 Comments
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  Do we really want to go back to FPP? - by frog

  
  
  
  The recent British election has clearly demonstrated what a deeply flawed and undemocratic system FPP is. The Labour Party got 6% more of the vote than the Liberal Democrat Party but they got over 400% more seats- seem fair to you? MMP is a much fairer system as pretty much everyone’s vote counts and so [...] read more
  May 11, 2010 1:50 pm - 59 Comments
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  MMP referendum, submit now - by frog

  
  
  
  The Electoral Legislation Committee has called for submissions on the Electoral Referendum Bill. You can make an online submission or a written submission (enclose two copies), by Thursday, 10 June 2010. read more
  April 27, 2010 12:44 pm - 9 Comments
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  This is how crap FPP is – statistically speaking - by frog

  
  
  
  How inefficient is FPP, really? How many votes are wasted in an FPP electoral system? Someone with a statistics mind has come up with a way to measure this, and the results are a real eye opener… read more
  April 26, 2010 12:38 pm - 9 Comments
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  FPP: A perverse affront to democracy - by frog

  
  
  
  Today the Electoral Referendum Bill will have its First Reading in Parliament, so it is timely to recall how much of a perverse affront to democracy the First Past the Post (FPP) electoral system New Zealanders threw out in 1993 was. read more
  April 22, 2010 12:33 pm - 18 Comments
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  Public want spending caps - by frog

  
  
  
  Looks like the public agree that elections should be a battle of ideas not money. Check out this poll, last time I looked 83% of people voted for lobby groups having campaign spending caps.   Last week Metiria grilled Minister Power about caps in the House. read more
  February 25, 2010 12:19 pm - 3 Comments