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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

• General debate, 5 December, 2009

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 14:26 in the game

• 85 mpg cars needed by 2030 to survive?

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 13:21 in environment & resource management

  I have been looking for some down to earth way to talk about the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2009 (WEO) since it was released. The OECD International Energy Agency (IEA) is the taxpayer-funded energy advisor to the ...

• ACC: Mirrors smashed and smoke dispersed

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 23:43 in Economy, acc, nick smith, sue bradford, kevin hague, bill rosenberg, nzctu, acc levies

  NZCTU economist Bill Rosenberg  has debunked the supposed “financial crisis” facing ACC that  Nick Smith is relying on to gut cover and entitlements  to  set it up for privatisation. Here’s Rosenberg’s take on it: ACC’s reserves are...

• Gold mining leaves Waihi deprived

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 17:39 in environment & resource management

  Despite Gerry Brownlee’s absurd aspiration to be Australia and to mine our treasured places the economic arguments do not stack in the one Coromandel gold mining town, Waihï. The evidence for this can be found in the Social Impact report on Waihï...

• Maori participation in Auckland SuperCity – Not!

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 04:14 in participation, stv, maori, society & culture, supercity, justice & democracy, auckland governance

  It seems that Rodney Hide has yet again turned up to Cabinet with his papers and been allowed to advance (?) Auckland Governance another step closer to the shambles it will almost certainly become.  The prospects for meaningful Maori participation l...

• TVNZ – step up to the Convention

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 23:41 in human rights, disability, featured, sexism, tvnz, stephanie mills, society & culture, paul henry, susan boyle

  Today, December 3, is International Day for the Rights of People with Disabilities. TVNZ might be at risk of becoming blasé about complaints to the Human Rights Commission. After all, it is becoming a regular occurrence thanks to their ongoing suppo...

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Ryan

Best political blog in New Zealand!

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