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Frog Blog

http://blog.greens.org.nz/

hopping along the corridors of power - a political blog from the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand

• Added on: Jul 29th, 2005
• Country: New Zealand
• Language: English

• Listed in: Politics Green
• Tags: new zealand green green party frog environment & resource management frogblog

Recent Posts

• Spinning it on ACC levies

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 19:06 in Economy, spin, acc, community responsibility, acc levies, motorcycle levy, sir owen woodhouse

  The advertisement below appeared in the daily newspapers last week – pure spin designed to counter outrage among motorcyclists against the huge proposed increase in ACC motorcycle levies. It is based on the false premise that the risk of injuri...

• What Would Rod Say?

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 22:33 in the game, parliament, ets, rma, national party, buy kiwi made, society & culture, rod donald

  This first anniversary of the National-led government is also the fourth anniversary of the death of former Green Party Co-Leader, Rod Donald. With the many retrospectives being written about the “new” government, my thoughts turn today t...

• Access to Dental Care a Human Right

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 20:56 in dental care, human rights, featured, health & wellbeing, wheelchair access

  I am horrified that the Ministry of Health’s mobile dental clinics won’t be wheelchair accessible.  If the vision is to take health out to the people then access is a fundamental issue.  The excuse that a ramp would cost $70,000 must be examin...

• Afghanistan’s Agony: What in the world to do?

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 17:25 in Barack Obama, afghanistan, featured, justice & democracy, nzsas

  Afghanistan gets progressively worse.  The US President is caught in a vice-like grip between personal judgment and political constraint.  Having characterised Afghanistan as a war of necessity to escape a war of choice (Iraq), he cannot exit early...

• National Out of Touch on Transport?

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 17:10 in auckland, transport, public transport, steven joyce, transport funding, environment & resource management

  I’ve blogged before about the gap between what Steven Joyce wants for Auckland (more roads) and what the average Aucklander wants (more public transport). It’s nice to see the Herald agrees with me (for a change). They rate Joyce’s...

• Mokihinui – Brownlee’s burp

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 03:16 in environment, climate change, energy, water, Economy, conservation, green party, doc, frog, national party, wild rivers, metiria turei

  So this week our Minister of Mining and Damming (aka Energy and Resources) let slip that the Mokihinui hydro-dam “would not go ahead”. Does he know something or was it just his ‘opinion’? Whatever the brain-burp was, he was il...

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