Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 11:46 am, July 31st, 2018 -
78 comments
Categories: child abuse, education, national, same old national, schools, Simon Bridges
Tags: charter schools, newsroom
Newsroom has reported on claims that Villa Education Trust, which opened up National’s conference singing Hallelujah, has taught creationism in science classes as a preferred theory of evolution.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 11:03 am, March 19th, 2018 -
49 comments
Categories: accountability, democratic participation, greens, Parliament
Tags: democracy, patsy questions, question time
“As Greens, we’ve always stood for modernising our democracy, making MPs more accountable and giving the public better access to the levers of power.”
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 6:30 am, October 29th, 2017 -
197 comments
Categories: Conservation, Environment, greens, sustainability
Tags: 1080
Let’s clear up some misconceptions about the Green Party’s Conservation Policy.
Written By:
Matthew Whitehead -
Date published: 7:09 am, October 26th, 2017 -
69 comments
Categories: MMP, national, Parliament
Tags:
Some National supporters are proposing the Governor General direct coalition talks in the future. How would that actually work out?
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 10:59 am, October 6th, 2017 -
64 comments
Categories: election 2017, greens, MMP
Tags: coalition deals
Important in the Green’s coalition deal-making process is the party’s political positioning, and the internal processes that the party is obligated to follow. Both of those things reflect deeper values around policy and decision making. Here’s a look at what processes the Greens will follow in the coming weeks and who will be involved.
Written By:
Bunji -
Date published: 1:22 pm, September 28th, 2017 -
50 comments
Categories: climate change, Economy, Environment, farming, greens, national, water
Tags:
You can stop the silly chat now media – the Greens can’t go into coalition with National because of their members, their social polices… but mainly because of their environmental policies.
Written By:
Natwatch -
Date published: 6:44 am, September 28th, 2017 -
163 comments
Categories: election 2017, greens
Tags: choices, greens, principles
Nats and their proxies continue to try and drag the Greens into negotiations with National. They just can’t conceive of a party based on principle. A party that exists for something other than the pursuit of power for power’s sake. But I fear that the Greens might have a stern test coming up.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 7:02 am, September 27th, 2017 -
170 comments
Categories: democratic participation, election 2017, national, same old national, winston peters
Tags: #ChangeTheGovt, choices, election 2017, nzf
Peters campaigned hard against the Nats, and for a change in government (check out the speech and video). To keep faith with democracy and with his party members he has to go with Labour Green (check out the feedback and polls). If Peters goes the other way NZF will implode.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 12:43 pm, September 20th, 2017 -
48 comments
Categories: Economy, election 2017, Environment, farming, greens, poverty, sustainability, water
Tags: #Green2017, #greenthegovt, #partyvotegreen, fiscal plan
The Greens have a fully costed plan of their goals for New Zealand’s future. Anything but boring, this is bold vision, progressive values, and detailed planning as well as solid economics for the fiscal geeks.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:47 am, September 18th, 2017 -
55 comments
Categories: bill english, election 2017, Environment, farming, farming, jacinda ardern, national, Politics, same old national, sustainability
Tags: simon wilson, thespinoff
It is difficult to understand National’s election campaign. Instead of campaigning on what they have achieved and what they plan to do they are using fear of Labour to try and win the election. And saying some palpably untrue things on the way.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 10:35 am, August 31st, 2017 -
25 comments
Categories: Conservation, election 2017, Environment, greens
Tags: marine reserve, Taranaki, whaling
In Government the the Greens will create a blue whale sanctuary and a local ecotourism industry – to replace seabed mining and oil and gas.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 5:35 pm, August 22nd, 2017 -
38 comments
Categories: election 2017
Tags: election debate, maori television, The Spinoff
The most interesting political parties debate on Māori Television (and livestream), tonight 8pm.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 11:29 am, August 19th, 2017 -
68 comments
Categories: election 2017, greens, jacinda ardern, polls
Tags: satirical headlines
Can we please get on with the real mahi now?
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 7:20 am, August 13th, 2017 -
28 comments
Categories: campaigning, election 2017, greens
Tags: #Green2017, #greenthegovt
The Green party resets its election campaign.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 6:14 am, July 3rd, 2017 -
17 comments
Categories: greens, im/migration
Tags: Federation of Multicultural Councils
We stand for an Aotearoa that stands up to racism and scapegoating and xenophobia.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 9:18 am, May 31st, 2017 -
21 comments
Categories: democratic participation, election 2017, greens, Politics
Tags: Green Party List 2017
Climate change, human rights, indigenous rights, Māori and Pasifika, and fresh, young faces on the 2017 Green Party List.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 9:09 am, April 15th, 2017 -
54 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, jacinda ardern, labour, leadership
Tags: andrew little, jacinda ardern, tracy watkins
Big turnouts for Labour meetings. Some commentators just can’t quite get to grips with how well the new leadership team is working.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 9:22 am, April 6th, 2017 -
40 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, articles, jacinda ardern, labour, leadership
Tags: andrew little, jacinda ardern, leadership team, woman's weekly
Labour’s new tactic of featuring a leadership team seems to be working well.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 12:16 pm, April 2nd, 2017 -
91 comments
Categories: election 2017, greens, Politics
Tags:
The Green Party has released its indicative party list for consideration by the party membership.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 12:55 pm, February 26th, 2017 -
14 comments
Categories: election 2017, greens, james shaw
Tags: #Green2017
James Shaw addresses Green Party candidates and shares their vision for Aotearoa New Zealand
Written By:
Ben Clark -
Date published: 2:45 pm, September 15th, 2016 -
113 comments
Categories: Conservation, Maori Issues, maori party, same old national, treaty settlements
Tags: kermadec sanctuary
The Maori Party are threatening to pull out of their confidence & supply agreement with National. This would leave National with a Hair-thin majority in the House. The Kermadec Sanctuary, if handled with competence instead of arrogance, should have been a massive win for National.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 1:04 pm, August 22nd, 2016 -
48 comments
Categories: greens, housing, labour, leadership, maori party
Tags: homeless, homeless crisis, homelessness inquiry
After National blocked a proposed official inquiry into homelessness, Labour, The Greens and The Maori Party went ahead with their own. It will no doubt come up with useful recommendations. But to see them implemented we will need to change the government.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 12:43 pm, July 28th, 2016 -
109 comments
Categories: democratic participation, feminism, Left, political alternatives, social democracy, uncategorized, us politics
Tags: green politics, jill stein, US Presidential Election
Plus she makes Fox News reporters’ heads explode.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 9:56 am, July 21st, 2016 -
18 comments
Categories: International, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics, video, youtube
Tags: bernie sanders, donald trump, hillary clinton
Overnight Hillary Clinton’s campaign team has released a video that not only elegantly mimics and repeats the 1964 classic campaign ad “Confessions of a Republican” but involves the same actor who for exactly the same reasons has decided he cannot support the Republican candidate for the presidency.
Written By:
Simon Louisson -
Date published: 9:16 am, April 8th, 2016 -
15 comments
Categories: Gerry Brownlee, national, Parliament, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Tags: ombudsman, peter boshier
One of the few things the Nats normally excel at, is selecting a suitably unqualified flunkey to ensure an office they have no regard for is suitably undermined – witness the Race Relations Commissioner. Why then Boshier, whose only previous was an eight year stretch as a highly competent and effective Principal Family Court Judge? […]
Written By:
Simon Louisson -
Date published: 11:58 am, April 7th, 2016 -
52 comments
Categories: john key, Privatisation
Tags: cullen fund, kiwibank, michael cullen
The transfer of part of Kiwibank to the Cullen Fund will inevitably lead to its privatisation, no matter what the Government says.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 2:08 pm, March 22nd, 2016 -
66 comments
Categories: john key, national
Tags: bradley ambrose, teapot tape
John Key’s office has announced that he will now pay the agreed damages from private sources.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:30 am, February 27th, 2016 -
72 comments
Categories: act, climate change, Environment, making shit up, national/act government, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: David Seymour
David Seymour will at ACT’s conference today outline why ACT and not the Greens is the real environmental party.
Written By:
BLiP -
Date published: 8:02 am, December 7th, 2015 -
113 comments
Categories: Hekia parata, jobs, Kelvin Davis, labour, Privatisation, privatisation, uncategorized, Unions, workers' rights
Tags: education, TeachNZ
To date, TeachFirst(NZ) has received more than $6.4 million dollars of public money and, as a result, has infested 18 schools with dozens of so-called “teachers”.
Written By:
tracey -
Date published: 7:39 am, December 1st, 2015 -
61 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags:
I’ve just finished reading all the comments on the reshuffle thread. It gave me an idea. Post here YOUR rankings of the top 20 Labour Party MPs, the role you would give them and WHY. So that is 3 criteria for posting Rank the top 20 of current Labour Party MPs; and The Role […]
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 9:00 am, September 18th, 2015 -
21 comments
Categories: activism
Tags: refugee crisis
For all progressives in Auckland Tamaki Makaurau this Saturday the left is running a fundraiser for the Auckland Refugee Council.
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