party Archive

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  Two Reasons to Vote Green

  
  
  
  Except for the funny accent and that fact that we’re not part of the EU, this could just as easily be a video to support our very own Green New Deal and Green Stimulus Package right here in New Zealand. If I were Irish, I know how I’d be voting this year! read more
  June 3, 2009 10:54 am - 60 Comments
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  Keep On Truckin’

  
  
  
  From what I saw on my morning hoparound, Green MPs are absolutely gutted by news in the NZ Herald about trucking industry donations to politicians.  The Road Transport Forum spent nearly $100K greasing the wheels ahead of the election: Those who declared donations of $5000 from the Road Transport Forum were National’s Tau Henare, Eric Roy, Nick [...] read more
  April 16, 2009 6:03 pm - 14 Comments
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  General Debate, April 15th

  
  
  
  I’m totally distracted at the moment, so please, talk amongst yourselves! read more
  April 15, 2009 12:44 pm - 72 Comments
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  Herald approves, but gets some basics very wrong

  
  
  
  Today’s Herald editorial seems keen on the new working relationship between the Greens and National.  But their positive assessment comes at the very end, while much of the piece discusses a supposed change in attitude by the Greens. This agreement, under which the Greens and ministers will work together in several policy areas, clearly owes a great deal to [...] read more
  April 13, 2009 11:48 am - 30 Comments
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  Privatise My Public School (Unfortunately Not a Futuristic Nightmare)

  
  
  
  Welcome to Pepsi Cola High School, your local state educational institutional. Make sure your parents have got their “donations” ready and can also pay towards your trip to Paris and Mexico and to school camp down the road as well. Make sure you can afford a new uniform or at least a recycled one that [...] read more
  April 8, 2009 3:47 pm - 48 Comments
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  Virus battery could power cars, electronic devices

  
  
  
  Scientists at MIT have built a lithium-ion battery using a genetically modified virus to assemble both the anode and the cathode of a battery. Three years ago, an MIT team led by Belcher reported that it had engineered viruses that could build an anode by coating themselves with cobalt oxide and gold and self-assembling to form [...] read more
  April 6, 2009 11:59 am - 26 Comments
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  Maori seats for Auckland: A good model for others?

  
  
  
  The Auckland Super city debate has raised the important issue of Maori seats to provide manawhenua representation in Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland.  National are considering this option of creating two seats to represent Ngati Whatua and Tainui iwi. What about the rest of the country? At present the Bay of Plenty have two Maori seats on their regional [...] read more
  April 6, 2009 11:46 am - 20 Comments
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  Earth Hour 09: Metiria Turei MP

  
  
  
  It’s old news but I have to share it. Wayne John has done an excellent cut of Metiria’s speech in Dunedin during Earth Hour. It’s short and sweet. Enjoy! read more
  April 6, 2009 11:33 am - No Comments
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  Sex Bomb, Sex bomb

  
  
  
  Just in case anyone thinks the Greens were letting some hard core sex offenders run riot by voting against yesterday’s sex offender law amendment, here are the facts: The key amendment in the bill was not “just implementing the intention of the original legislation”, as the government claimed . The Attorney-General’s Report on Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) [...] read more
  April 3, 2009 2:32 pm - 40 Comments
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  Green Party pulls plug for planet’s sake

  
  
  
  In a bold move to combat global warming and the Government’s indifference to New Zealand’s Kyoto commitments, the Green Party is leading from the front and will immediately stop using most electrical appliances in its Parliamentary offices as of today. “The current Government’s laissez-faire attitude to carbon emissions means that more needs to be done. The [...] read more
  April 1, 2009 4:11 pm - 16 Comments