If you get most of your information about from TV, you probably don’t know that much about the grave environmental challenges we face. That’s the thesis forwarded by Ian Spellerberg, a professor of nature conservation at Lincoln University, in an op-ed in the Herald this morning. It reads:
It is difficult to see how society can […]
There have been two good pieces of good news in the fight against child obesity today.
First: the Government has come up with enough money to allow the Health Sponsorship Council to get back sole naming rights for the annual “Smokefree” Rockquest in which secondary school rock bands battle it out for supremacy. Coke was co-sponsor, […]
From time to time, frogblog will be bringing you first-hand accounts from MPs about stuff they’ve been up to. Today’s is from Rod, who has just completed a protest on the steps of Parliament. The occasion was the arrival of Mr Wu Bangguo, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress. He’s […]
BALONEY!
Yes, Don Brash gave a much-trumpeted speech yesterday, in which he decried the Government as a peddler of baloney. This as part of National’s attack on the integrity of the Government generally and the Prime Minister specifically.
The Herald reports that, in the text of the speech, BALONEY was written in capitals, to remind Don to […]