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Articles in the Politics Category

Green Party home insulation deal

By Jolyon | 4 June, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Politics |

This is a great article, but it turns out it was a deal with the national party rather than the devil so not quite as shocking a story as it …

The sky didn’t fall on our heads…

By MicahChallenge | 25 May, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Millennium Development Goals, Politics |

In his speech announcing the changes to NZAID structure and policy Mr McCully joked that the changes had already happened, and that the sky had not fallen on our heads.

I’m …

NZAid review

By Jolyon | 5 March, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Community Development, Millennium Development Goals, Politics |

As highlighted in a NZ Herald article on Tuesday, ‘Murray McCully appears to have no qualms about New Zealand’s half-billion-dollar foreign aid programme being used as a tool of its …

Conferences are wasteful, unless you’re hosting

By Jolyon | 26 February, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Humour, News, Politics |

The National Government has cancelled another conference, with Prime Minister John Key describing it as “a waste of public money at a critical time”. During a line-by-line review of spending by …

RMA changes

By Jolyon | 4 February, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Environment, News, Politics |

The Governments announced proposed changes to RMA legislation met with mixed results this morning. The thing that has interested me most is that for all the media outlets that have …

A referendum of no consequence

By Anne | 17 December, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Peace & Violence, Politics |

This article summed it up the situation really well, I reckon.

By Simon Cunliffe on Wed, 19 Nov 2008
http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/opinion/32343/a-referendum-no-consequence

In August next …

1987: Maori lead employment stats

By Anne | 11 December, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Biculturalism, Kaupapa Maori, News, Politics |

I like to think I have a healthy scepticism of media representation and bias, but I have to admit that the stats in the opening paragraph of Hone Harawira’s latest …

Voter Turnout in the Maori Electorate Seats of Huge Concern

By Anne | 12 November, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Biculturalism, News, Politics |

The fact that only 55% of Maori voters turned out to vote is a pretty worrying symptom of the lack of confidence many Maori have in New Zealand’s political system, …