Is the government's investigation of the performance of Environment Canterbury open to more robust critique than it has been getting?
The worm turns.
by Claire Browning
My theories on the Greens’ “conspiracies”, which will undermine their brand as much as National’s
The Greens have broken out into a little rash of conspiracy theory. Frog was in yogic contortions last week on her blog, trying to scratch all the itches.
Shame on Labour spokesperson Chris Carter and partisan blog The Standard for using anti-whaling diplomacy for short-term political gain
Never has the right-wing sobriquet “The Stranded” seemed more appropriate.
After a year of elision and mishap, John Key's government has hit its stride
I’ve found the missing Key to democracy. It seemed to get lost, for a while there; it’s good to have it back.
Key promised no state assets would be sold or partly sold in the first term of his government. But that’s in effect what’s happening, to our biggest state asset of them all
“Wheeeeee! We’re balancing the environment and the economy!” shrieked the little girl dressed in green. Then she saw Gerry Brownlee, lumbering towards the see-saw, smiling his small wry smile.
Last December’s uproar about whether we should have cubicle dairy farming in New Zealand was misinformed, because it’s already happening in New Zealand
It’s like an episode straight from Jane Eyre: New Zealand’s grubby secret, the gibbering creature in the attic.
The Green response to John Key’s tax policy statement raises questions about who they’re representing, and some bits of their policy they momentarily forgot
The Prime Minister’s tax skeleton outlined last Tuesday is surely a bit stunted, maybe a bit deformed. But so was the Green response to it.
Jeanette Fitzsimons’ valedictory speech in Parliament today ends a political era. Will it be the death of the Greens, or their coming of age?
Every politician and commentator in the country is doing the political obituary; so the memes are multiplying.
Don’t fire up the bulldozers in the McKenzie Basin just yet. Land use consents for cubicle dairy farms granted by the Waitaki District Council may need to be reheard
This is not widely understood, and was only belatedly understood: all of the publicity around cubicle dairy farming proposals stems from only one aspect of the proposals.
Weather’s this summer’s talking point. But here’s the newsworthy bit: in the Wellington region, the weather’s been great
Summer and I have a tricky relationship.
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