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Sua William Sio: COP21 and the Pacific Islands
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, December 12th, 2015 - 25 comments
Labour MP and associate spokesperson for Foreign Affairs (Pacific Climate Change) Sua William Sio describes the repercussions of a COP21 conference that does not agree to limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees.
New Zealand wins fossil of the day award – again
Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, December 11th, 2015 - 43 comments
For a small country New Zealand is certainly punching above its weight. It has been awarded a second fossil of the day award by the Climate Action Network.
Paula Bennett, Climate Change Minister?
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 am, December 8th, 2015 - 68 comments
Despite having no scientific background, no relevant experience and no related portfolios Paula Bennett is the new Minister in charge of Climate Change Issues.
Key’s Xmas Reshuffle; UPDATE + bonus Winston Peters zinger!
Written By: - Date published: 7:24 am, December 7th, 2015 - 49 comments
John Key has announced that there will be a minor cabinet re-shuffle. Could this mark the return of Judith Collins? If so, what does this tell us about how the post-Key National Party will look?
#Sheepgate – but wait there’s more
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, December 4th, 2015 - 28 comments
At the same time that there is an Auditor General’s investigation into the appropriateness of the Government spend on the sheep farm in the middle of a Saudi desert the Government has announced a further spend of $2.6 million on a kit set abattoir. And the resumption of live exports by ship may be in the pipeline.
The great greenhouse gas research funding switcherooni
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 19 comments
John Key has announced an increase in funding on research into the reduction of agricultural emissions of greenhouse gasses of $20 million over four years or $5 million a year. Which is the amount the Government cut from this research two months ago.
Jarrod Gilbert 1 – Windmills 0
Written By: - Date published: 7:09 am, November 29th, 2015 - 22 comments
About time the Police got around to becoming a “very evidence based” service. Building great relationships with academia is a sensible way to start.
How many prospective state house tenants hate birds chirping?
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, November 26th, 2015 - 46 comments
The answer is at least one.
Towards banana republic status
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, November 19th, 2015 - 43 comments
National has passed legislation with retrospective effect under urgency to change previous legislation also passed under urgency so that the law says what it thinks the law should have said, despite the existing law being abundantly clear.
A Government of spin redux
Written By: - Date published: 10:40 am, November 16th, 2015 - 26 comments
The Herald has withdrawn a story that reported on Government pressure on the ERO to rewrite a report after what appears to be pressure from the Government to do so.
A government of spin
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, November 14th, 2015 - 52 comments
Two recent articles suggest that this Government is more interested in spin and PR than in achieving good. And one of the articles previously posted in the Herald has mysteriously disappeared.
Power Corruption and Lies
Written By: - Date published: 1:04 pm, November 13th, 2015 - 78 comments
A National List MP has been snapped trying to heavy the Housing Ministry into funding a lift in her personal profile. Remember John Key’s ‘higher standards in Government’? Nick Smith’s Ministerial office apparently doesn’t care too much about about such trifles. Worse, the Housing Ministry has been caught trying to cover up for the Tories by redacting an OIA request. Here’s your Brighter Future, folks. Enjoy.
Social media disasters – Paula Bennett tweets
Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, November 12th, 2015 - 27 comments
The first of what may be an ongoing series of posts where social media interaction by Politicians ends in disaster.
New Zealand needs a new Speaker
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, November 11th, 2015 - 85 comments
David Carter’s refusal to rule John Key’s “backing the rapists” comment out of order raises issues about his ability to properly do the job of speaker.
Is this our brighter future?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, November 3rd, 2015 - 44 comments
This morning’s media has reports of increased domestic violence being reported by beneficiaries and an increase of the time and resources the police are having to put into helping the mentally unwell. And record profits earned by the Australian banks.
We are paying for Key and Coleman to attend the World Cup
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, October 28th, 2015 - 207 comments
John Key and Jonathan Coleman are attending the World Cup on the taxpayer’s tab.
Kelvin Davis on the Christmas Island Detainees
Written By: - Date published: 8:45 am, October 25th, 2015 - 44 comments
Kelvin Davis’s recent visit to Christmas Island has revealed that New Zealand citizens are living in shocking conditions. And meanwhile John Key’s talk of giving the Australians a “blunt message” appears to have had negligible effect.
Paula Bennett and the social housing crisis
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, October 23rd, 2015 - 64 comments
Paula Bennett has uncovered the most significant risk that New Zealand faces. Or has she?
Future Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, October 19th, 2015 - 22 comments
There are rumours that National is looking to organise a new regional ticket, Future Auckland, to contest next year’s local body elections in Auckland.
Rugby or global leadership?
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, October 18th, 2015 - 45 comments
John Key seems to prefer that New Zealand provides leadership in entertainment than in the areas that really matter.
CYF Review: Great work if you can get it
Written By: - Date published: 12:21 pm, October 13th, 2015 - 40 comments
Radio New Zealand has reported that Paul Rebstock, chair of the Government appointed committee engaged in the review of Child Youth and Family, is being paid $2,000 a day to perform her job. This is the equivalent to the daily pay of thirteen social workers.
What happened to Mike Sabin’s bill?
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, October 10th, 2015 - 22 comments
In March of this year National recycled a private member’s bill that Mike Sabin originally championed. The bill if enacted would have permitted a Judge to draw an adverse inference from a defendant facing child sex abuse charges exercising the right to silence. The bill was in the list of private members bills released on […]
Let’s send Renée Rose Annan to Paris to counter Tim Groser
Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, October 8th, 2015 - 25 comments
A young Auckland Green, Renée Rose Annan is fundraising to travel to the Paris Conference on climate change.
TPPA agreement reached
Written By: - Date published: 7:28 am, October 6th, 2015 - 163 comments
The TPPA has been agreed to. Dairy access improvement is minimal, there will be a cost hit on Pharmac and every industry but Tobacco will be able to access the investor state dispute resolution procedure.
Hekia has gone rogue
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, October 5th, 2015 - 41 comments
Hekia Parata has announced that student achievement and not need caused by poverty will be a central part of any future funding system.
TPPA deal close?
Written By: - Date published: 7:35 am, October 5th, 2015 - 288 comments
The TPPA is said to be close to being concluded with resistance to change in Pharmaceutical rules being provided by Australia, not New Zealand. And John Key says that the deal isn’t a very good deal for Dairy.
Where is Peseta Sam?
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, October 3rd, 2015 - 13 comments
This week we have had the release of the Priestley Report into the escape of Phillip Smith which details a litany of problems within Corrections and overnight there have been reports of rape and assault on a person moved from segregation in Serco managed South Auckland Correctional Facility. But no sign of Corrections Minister Sam Lotu Iiga. Where is he?
English: it’s all the planners’ fault
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, September 30th, 2015 - 23 comments
A guest post from Ad analysing Bill English’s speech where he blames planners for Auckland’s housing woes.
Key pinches Labour’s Kermadec Sanctuary Policy
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, September 30th, 2015 - 88 comments
National’s announced intention to create a marine sanctuary around the Kermadec Islands looks remarkably like Labour’s policy from the last election. And why did John Key not tell his caucus beforehand?
Jarrod Gilbert on National’s Lies
Written By: - Date published: 3:09 pm, September 29th, 2015 - 26 comments
There’s a hard-hitting piece in the Herald today – from Jarrod Gilbert on how National has lied to the country’s face and got away with it. Tolley claimed before the election that 34% of drug offences and 25% of homicides were by a small group of gang members – and here was National’s policy response […]
What other countries are doing about climate change
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, September 29th, 2015 - 27 comments
There is hope that the cumulative effect of all the international pledges for the Paris climate change conference may buy the world some time to prevent runaway global warming. Some countries are pledging to becoming carbon neutral. New Zealand’s pledge is pathetically weak in comparison.
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