Rod Donald Archive

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    Democracy in NZ: Lost, Stolen or just Mislaid? - by frog



    Last weekend Jeanette Fitzsimons delivered the inaugural Rod Donald Memorial lecture to a packed audience in Christchurch. Here are some highlights of the speech and you can read the whole thing here. Running through the history of democracy has been the issue of just who is a member of society? In ancient Athens women and [...] read more
    November 23, 2010 12:22 pm - 21 Comments
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    What Would Rod Say? - by frog



    This first anniversary of the National-led government is also the fourth anniversary of the death of former Green Party Co-Leader, Rod Donald. With the many retrospectives being written about the “new” government, my thoughts turn today to what Rod might have thought about the developments of the last year. There’s been commentary claiming the government [...] read more
    November 6, 2009 5:33 pm - 68 Comments
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    National’s super investment plan - by frog



    You can see why National held back on announcing policy for so long.  Once you see it a lot of it is hardly the sort of thing they would want to be mentioning when they’re out there trying to win support and votes.  Even their tax policy, which was supposed to be the stead that [...] read more
    October 16, 2008 11:13 am - 29 Comments
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    Rod Donald’s 2nd anniversary - by frog



    This week the Green Party the second anniversary of Rod’s death. Caucus, along with friends and supporters, spent a few quiet minutes remembering him and checking to make sure that his memorial tree, which lives behind the parliamentary library, was still prospering. As you can see here, it is. read more
    November 8, 2007 9:11 am - 9 Comments