greens

TVOne’s reporting of the latest Colmar Brunton Poll result

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:16 am, October 20th, 2015 - 90 comments

The latest Colmar Brunton poll shows that the opposition block is solidly ahead of National.  Yet One News chose to concentrate only on the preferred Prime Minister result and attack Andrew Little because of marginal change.

The political machinations of the flag debate

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:23 am, September 25th, 2015 - 276 comments

The Green’s agreement with National to allow for Red Peak to be a referendum candidate potentially helps John Key out of a major difficulty and raises issues about the state of the Labour-Green relationship.

Increase productivity. Make builders subject to criminal charges.

Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:51 am, September 23rd, 2015 - 97 comments

Nick Smith is being his usual dickhead self again suggesting that self-certifying electricians, directly subject to criminal prosecution, are the same as self-certifying builders who do not. The Government’s rules reduction taskforce is repeating the same mantras from the 1990s that lead directly to the destruction of productivity by National’s policies to create leaky buildings.

Breaking News – Russell Norman resigning from Parliament

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:13 am, September 11th, 2015 - 85 comments

Russell Norman has announced that he is resigning from Parliament to become Executive Director of Greenpeace.

The Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:16 am, July 22nd, 2015 - 49 comments

With support from Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party NZ First is promoting the Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill. The support of one more MP will be sufficient to sent the Bill to select committee for consideration.

China Crisis

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 12:43 pm, July 12th, 2015 - 199 comments

Good on Labour for saying what needed to be said. Can they, the Greens and NZ First save the next generation of Kiwis from being tenants in our own land?

Includes Bonus Seinfeld reference!

Greens allow split vote on online speech bill

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:35 pm, June 30th, 2015 - 87 comments

The Greens will split their vote on the Harmful Digital Communications Bill.

Update: The Bill has passed.

Herald supports Greens on climate change

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:12 am, June 4th, 2015 - 96 comments

Even an anonymous editorial in The Herald supports The Greens’ proposal for discussions with National on climate change. Key needs to acknowledge the facts, get some guts, and stop playing politics with the issue.

Labour and the Greens

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:12 am, May 31st, 2015 - 199 comments

Some thoughts on how Labour and the Greens need to manage relations in the hope that they can form a future progressive Government.

New Greens co-leader elected today

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:00 am, May 30th, 2015 - 5 comments

The Green Party are livestreaming parts of their annual conference today, including the announcement of their new male co-leader at 2pm.

Curiouser and curiouser

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 10:13 am, May 19th, 2015 - 22 comments

Creepy Key has dodged a question from the Green Party about any contact he may have had with the New Zealand Fox News Herald in the lead-up to Rachel Glucina’s hit job on the cafe worker who’s ponytail he pulled.

Replacing Russel

Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:47 pm, April 19th, 2015 - 48 comments

The Greens have closed their nominations for male co-leader, and are running a number of provincial meetings. I went to the second one in Auckland. The biggest issue for the Greens now after cracking the 10% electoral support in 2011 is that they didn’t grow their vote in 2014, and remain well below polling.  Part of that is getting their public face right.

Time for the Greens to transcend left vs. right.

Written By: shantiahluwalia - Date published: 5:00 am, March 14th, 2015 - 267 comments

The co-leadership race within the Greens has shown that they’re alive and kicking – if nursing a few wounds from the last election. Both Kevin Hague and Gareth Hughes have managed to enter the race with minimal belittlement – an impressive feat in itself, for a party as controversial as the Greens. Most interesting of […]

Local Bodies: The Greens and Labour

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:51 pm, February 20th, 2015 - 136 comments

Politics involves competition, opposition and robust debate as parties jostle to capture media time and to promote their policies and points of difference. But Andrew Little has recently mismanaged his relationship with the Green Party. There is an acceptable line between promoting the interests of ones own party and maintaining a working relationship with future coalition partners.

Labour’s Betrayal Continues

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 6:35 am, February 18th, 2015 - 440 comments

It might well be in Labour’s best interests to cut the crap now and go into coalition with the National Ltd™ Cult of John Key. It would be the honest thing to do. Kiwis will then know where the boundaries lie and who actually is working to oppose the implementation of the wider neo-liberal ideology.