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- robertguyton (3:24 pm): Sometimes humour can backfire a little bit it happend to me once over a...
- Valis (3:10 pm): Looks like Key playing good cop to Williamson’s dog-whistling bad cop.
- Rick Leckinger (3:08 pm): Crickey! Based on frog’s update, maybe we’ll only get one...
- toad (2:50 pm): Afraid I don’t share Maurice Williamson’s sense of humour. Perhaps...
- toad (2:33 pm): There’s definitely a whiff, foz, but I think it is better to get all the...
- Jeremy Harris (2:32 pm): I think when your dealing with a combustable liquid under 4000 psi of...
- foz (2:30 pm): Not much official comment from the Greens on the SCF debacle There is a whiff of...
- Rick Leckinger (2:27 pm): You’re not wrong there dbuckley. They average 100 platform fires...
- Kerry Thomas (2:24 pm): “why is it worse than say the Australian banks owning 91 per cent...
- James (2:17 pm): Back to the stone age…wheeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Key Government hides from the truth about oil
Make your submission on the draft Energy Strategy by 5pm on 2 September -
Wainuiototo (New Chums) Beach: Paradise subdivided?
Wainuiototo or New Chums beach on the coastal Hauraki/Coromandel is ranked in the top 20 wild beaches... -
Images: Green MPs support ‘fairness at work’ rallies
Green Party MPs were out in force over the weekend supporting the Fairness at Work Rallies. ...
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MEUG complains $145m free money isn’t enough - by frog
The Major Electricity Users Group (MEUG) is complaing that the $145 million cash dollars of taxpayer money that Nick Smith’s ETS will give them between now and the end of 2012 is simply not enough free money. read moreSeptember 3, 2010 2:23 pm - No Comments -
Another day, another oil platform explosion - by frog
Another oil platform off the Louisiana coast has experienced an explosion and fire. Fortunately, no lives were lost and earlier reports of a mile long slick have been recanted. read moreSeptember 3, 2010 11:27 am - 6 Comments -
Williamson and English running racial interference on foreign investment - by frog
Yesterday, Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson claimed that opposition to foreign investment is more about racism than overseas ownership. He needs to have a word to his colleague, Finance Minister Bill English, who last month seemed to be pandering to the supposed racism Williamson criticises. Williamson and English seem to be both running racial interference, albeit from opposite sides of the field, for continued slack regulation on foreign investment. read moreSeptember 3, 2010 9:44 am - 9 Comments -
Bill McKibben on David Letterman: Put Solar on the White House on 10/10 - by frog
I’ll let Bill McKibben from 350.org tell you all about it. I’m a third of the way through his new book, eaarth, and I recommend it to anyone concerned about where we’re going to be as a species in just a few decades. Climate change is now, not the problem of the [...] read moreSeptember 2, 2010 11:39 am - 20 Comments -
General debate, September 2, 2010 - by frog
September 2, 2010 9:08 am - 35 Comments -
Taking a bet with gambling - by Kevin Hague
It’s ironic that on a day that is supposed to be about not gambling Sky City choses to eschew all responsibility for problem gambling. Their release this morning, entitled “The issue isn’t gambling, it’s PROBLEM gambling” (note the capitalisation of PROBLEM) is a slap in the face to all the people who [...] read moreSeptember 1, 2010 1:57 pm - 29 Comments -
Kiwi bach goes to Washington - by frog
With all the inertia of a slow moving freight train, New Zealand’s entry into the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathalon is gaining momentum, and should arrive on the mall in Washinton DC by September next year. read moreSeptember 1, 2010 10:49 am - 15 Comments -
Who lives in the real world? - by Catherine Delahunty
I must admit, I did a double-take this morning when I read John Key’s comment that Secondary teachers’ plans to strike next month shows “how disconnected they are from the real world”. Who would you say is more connected to the “real world”? The thousands of teachers at the coalface of our secondary [...] read moreAugust 31, 2010 4:00 pm - 41 Comments -
The 90’s: Nirvana, The X Files & attacking workers rights - by Gareth Hughes
This is my latest article for Auckland University’s Craccum magazine: On the spectre of bourgeois opposition to the advancement of the glorious workers advancement struggle. I probably showed my age in a previous article talking about an old TV show Voltron, but this week I’d like to touch on some other pursuits of the [...] read moreAugust 31, 2010 11:28 am - 14 Comments -
Valuing our teachers properly - by Catherine Delahunty
The media tends to pitch a teachers’ strike as an attack on students – who will no doubt be thrilled to have a day off school should the planned secondary schools strike go ahead. However, the real issue is the Government’s hostility towards teachers, who are calling for improved wages and conditions. read moreAugust 30, 2010 3:18 pm - 81 Comments -
Make a submission in support of fairness at work - by Keith Locke
Parliament’s Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee has allowed only a very short timeframe for people to make submissions on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill (No 2). Submissions close on 13 September. If it is passed in its current form, this Bill will: extend the fire at will provisions [...] read moreAugust 30, 2010 1:52 pm - 4 Comments -
Case for wider probe of ACC entitlement-cutting culture now even stronger - by Kevin Hague
ACC’s use of Dr. Felicity Goodyear-Smith to advise on sexual abuse claims can only have resulted from catastrophic systems failure or a sick culture. New Zealanders need to know which, and Minister Smith must take steps to thoroughly investigate so the problems can be fixed read moreAugust 30, 2010 10:58 am - 11 Comments -
General debate, August 30, 2010 - by frog
August 30, 2010 9:46 am - 78 Comments -
Puhoi: This town is coming like a ghost town - by frog
Transport Minister Steven Joyce’s uneconomic Puhoi-Wellsford Holiday Highway is facing some unanticipated difficulties – from Speaker of the House and the National MP whom Joyce hopes to succeed as the MP for the Rodney electorate, Lockwood Smith. “No off-ramp for Puhoi”, read the innocuous headline on a brief story buried in [the NZ [...] read moreAugust 29, 2010 6:54 am - 19 Comments -
Key Government hides from the truth about oil - by frog
Make your submission on the draft Energy Strategy by 5pm on 2 September read moreAugust 29, 2010 6:47 am - 75 Comments -
Russel Norman on Back Benches (ETS special) - by frog
The pub was packed last Wednesday evening, with a solid Green contingent supporting Russel! You briefly can see our table at the end of Chapter 2 when Wilber won a book about something or other. You can watch the show at http://tvnz.co.nz/back-benches/s2010-e26-emissions-trading-special-video-3736153 I think Russel did really well – as usual there was a [...] read moreAugust 28, 2010 11:28 am - 27 Comments -
When will we have real police culture change? - by Catherine Delahunty
In 2007, the Herald named Louise Nicholas New Zealander of the Year for her brave exposure of police violence against women. However, as I blogged a couple of weeks ago, female victims of “police misconduct” like Louise have been told they will not be compensated. This week they also witnessed the edifying sight of [...] read moreAugust 27, 2010 1:05 pm - 130 Comments -
It must be time for a Tolley thread - by frog
I’m busy for a lot of today, but it must be time for a thread about one of the most incompetent Ministers ever. So, I’ll borrow stuff. What’s your view on the competence of OUR CHILDREN’S Minister of Education? read moreAugust 27, 2010 7:32 am - 35 Comments -
Wainuiototo (New Chums) Beach: Paradise subdivided? - by Catherine Delahunty
Wainuiototo or New Chums beach on the coastal Hauraki/Coromandel is ranked in the top 20 wild beaches in the world. The land adjacent to this gorgeous silent place has withstood several development attempts thus far. The latest attempt is by developers from Queenstown, who know all about making real estate suitable for [...] read moreAugust 26, 2010 5:36 pm - 43 Comments -
Last chance to get Dominion Road bus/cycle way - by David Clendon
Just a reminder that the last day for submissions on the redesign of Dominion Road is this Sunday, 29th of August. I’ve commented on this issue before so will be brief. Auckland City Council is planning to redesign Dominion Road, one of the busier roads in central Auckland. Their plans for redesign currently involve [...] read moreAugust 26, 2010 4:13 pm - 5 Comments -
Don’t pine for our clean green brand, stop GE! - by Gareth Hughes
Crown research institute Scion has applied to the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) to conduct a field test of genetically engineered (GE) pine trees on a 4 hectare site in Rotorua and the public submission process is now open. We need to keep GE in the Lab and not release modified organisms into [...] read moreAugust 26, 2010 1:50 pm - 15 Comments -
Have your say on the draft Energy Strategy (or lack of one) - by frog
It is ironic that there is so little to criticise inside Gerry Brownlee’s draft Energy Strategy, but that’s because there is almost nothing in it! Fortunately there is a Green Party submission guide ready and waiting to help you have your say. read moreAugust 26, 2010 1:37 pm - 18 Comments -
Police culture, Police bars, and pack rapist Shipton’s little helpers - by frog
Public confidence in and respect for the Police is being undermined by their increasing aloofness and sense of privilege and the continued perception of the Police as tolerating thuggery and corruption. Sadly, on recent evidence, it doesn’t look as though that is about to change. read moreAugust 26, 2010 12:21 pm - 24 Comments -
Parliament’s chance to combat animals suffering - by Sue Kedgley
Most New Zealanders never get to see how pigs and hens suffer in intensive farms in New Zealand, because industrial farms are hidden away, in corrugated iron sheds down back roads in rural areas, and farmers wont let us visit their farms to see for ourselves the conditions that animals are forced to endure in these ‘farms’. read moreAugust 25, 2010 6:34 pm - 11 Comments -
Gollum saves a wild river - by frog
A tiny freshwater fish called Gollum has proved instrumental is saving one of our last remaining wild rivers from the threat of a hydro dam. A special tribunal has agreed to a variation on the Kawarau Water Conservation Order that would prohibit the damming of the Nevis river , a tributary of the [...] read moreAugust 25, 2010 4:11 pm - 5 Comments
