Memo to the left: the māori party is not your enemy
Eddie at The Standard has posted the latest in a long line of post-election attacks on the māori party, this time for Tariana Turia criticising Labour’s filibuster against the supercity bill. Leaving...
View ArticleOptimism isn’t enough
I have, of late, been rather critical of Labour, and the reason for my critical tone is at least partially because the sort of Pollyanna bullshit exhibited by certain partisans on this thread (and...
View ArticleYoung and free
It seems that Australia is considering a measure which would give 16 and 17 year-olds the right to vote in federal elections. There are some aspects of Australia’s political system which make this sort...
View ArticleSue Bradford: hampered by her own effectiveness
I haven’t had a chance to read much of the matter written about Sue Bradford’s resignation today, so I apologise if I duplicate things other, wiser, faster people have said. Sue will probably not...
View ArticleFire in the House
The opposition was strong in Parliament today. I’m stuck for time, so what follows is somewhat stream-of-consciousness. Front and centre was the government’s failure to perform on unemployment and wage...
View ArticleFrogs, toadies and tadpoles
There’s been a long and turgid discussion about the Greens’ support for the Canterbury Earthquake Response & Recovery Act (CERRA) on Frogblog, with commenters including many of the usuals from...
View ArticleThe Perils of the Dark Side
Via 3 News journalist Patrick Gower on Twitter, the news that Pita Sharples is the keynote speaker at the Destiny Church annual conference this Labour weekend. Concerning news. Except I’m not sure it’s...
View ArticleIs a Blue-Green Foreign Policy Possible?
Discussion of potential coalitions stemming from the upcoming general election has largely avoided the question of foreign policy. Although the differences between Labour and National are more around...
View ArticleOn Billboards
To state the bleeding obvious: the coordinated actions of a group of Green activists to deface National party billboards is bad form. This is not so much because of the defacement itself (that’s bad...
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