Archive for May 15th, 2006

Buy Kiwi Made gets its bite

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Sue B, in conjunction with Economic Development Minister Trevor Mallard, this morning announced $11.5 million of Budget funding for the Greens’ Buy Kiwi Made campaign, which is exciting news.
The announcement has been greeted with lots of support, especially from Unions, and some disjointed and actually quite humourous dissent. I think Rodney should stick to dancing.

Environmentally trendy

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Further to the last post, in which the National Party discovered that New Zealanders care deeply about the environment and decided to use this fact to start poaching votes from the Greens, evidence of just how strongly we feel about environmental issues is available online using Google’s new toy, Google Trends, which provides information about […]

National out to poach Green vote

Monday, May 15th, 2006

National’s Environment Spokesperson Nick Smith delivered an interesting speech at the party’s Lower North Island Regional Conference over the weekend on his “Bluegreen vision for NZ”. Sample quote:
The mechanics of MMP make the balance of power very sensitive to the Green vote. The Greens only just scraped back into Parliament with 5.3% of the […]