Archive for September 24th, 2007

Where is National on climate change?

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Are National climate change deniers or not? Not an easy question to answer.
Bill English from Feb in Investigate (link from the Standard):
[I’m] quite worried that policies are going to be driven by this Armageddon mentality that the world has… far too much carbon.
Bill again from Agenda on the weekend:
GUYON Although just 18 months ago your leader […]

One law for all dangerous drivers

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Todays article in the Dom Post about a bill to set up a ‘drugged driving’ regime had an interesting fact in it.
“One police study of 245 dead drivers found that 129 had drugs in their system. Of those, 80 had drugs and alcohol in their systems, 29 had cannabis only and 20 had prescription drugs.”
This […]

Trotter on EFB

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Chris Trotter used his column in Friday’s DomPost to argue for improvements to be made to the Electoral Finance Bill, rather than throwing it out altogether as the Nats have been calling for.
Trotter argued that the EFB needs to be seen in the context of a society where different people have access to different amounts […]