Archive for January 29th, 2008

Russel’s response to John Key

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

It’s interesting that John Key’s ‘Youth Guarantee’ scheme talks about providing free tertiary education for 16-17 year old students who leave school but nothing for those students who stay at school and then try to follow their dream through tertiary education. Instead it appears to put funding for our world class public secondary school […]

The ‘right to beat your child’ petition

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Family First is fairly certain that it is going to reach the threshold 300,000 necessary signatures on its petitions to initiate a Citizen Initiated Referendum.  This would allow its referenda to join the exhalted heights of the three other referenda questions of our time where we got to vote on how many firefighters we should […]

Watermelons

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Trevor Loudon, Whale Oil, Silent Running should all take note: There’s a rumour going around the 8th floor of Bowen House that the Greens have established a new election campaign coordination committee called the CCCP (verbally shortened to ‘the Soviet’). It’s secret though and no one knows what it does.

Gagarin is launched into space. […]