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Why would someone who believes climate change is a hoax and human activity is not contributing to climate change, want a carbon tax? Why would you tax fossil fuels if you don’t believe they are doing any harm? Why would a party that has campaigned on a carbon tax since 1993 and accepted […]

I am utterly dismayed after reading a quote from Dr Wayne Mapp in today’s Dom Post, with regards to the NZ response to Japanese whaling:
I’m not really sure what we will be doing.
It doesn’t get any more wishy washy than that from a Defence Minister. Not that I blame Mapp for the sentiment. A decade […]

It’s official. The electoral commission has published the final results of the election, and the Green Party is up one more MP than previously announced. Kennedy Graham, the number 9 on the party list, is officially in parliament.

Ken teaches (taught?)  international politics and international law at the School of Law, Canterbury and Victoria University, and […]

Things will be a bit sketchy around here at frogblog, as I help the parliamentary team pack up their office and shift further up in Bowen House. With our newer, bigger caucus, we’ll be inhabiting two floors now instead of one.
The views from level 8 were lovely. At almost twice the height, they will be […]

 
I laughed out loud at this image over at Tumeke this morning, in a post from Bomber. I’m not entirely sure who gets the image credit, but perhaps it is best ascribed to John Key himself, as quoted in the NZ Herald:

Do [New Zealanders] want to put in a National government with a fresh view […]

My intent is to foster a debate as much as to express my own, personal opinion on the matter. But yes, I believe that Sam Lotu-liga should resign as either the Auckland City Councilor for Tamaki-Maungakiekie, or as MP for Maungakiekie. Holding two such offices simultaneously does have some historical precedent, but does anyone really […]

After a roller coaster of a night, normal transmission resumes here at frogblog. I have liberated the few comments we had overnight. Now it is time to celebrate the Green Party´s fresh new faces and contemplate a new government. But first, coffee!

The Herald’s editor was in a lather over the weekend suggesting that a party with a minority of support had more right to govern than two parties with the majority of the popular vote:
But it is clearly not what most voters want or believe should happen. Around 80 per cent of them vote National or […]

This week the House debated the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Bill (No 2). This Bill simply allows for the Minister to set Total Allowable Catch (TAC) limits under the Quota Management Scheme (QMS) with incomplete information about the state of the fish stock. The Minister has to be able to […]

After I reported Bob Clarkson’s work rate in Parliament at various times as  65 words in 2 and half months, 16 words in one month and 19 words in nearly 3 months, I was hoping after last night to be able to say Bob Clarkson had blown all those previous records out of the water […]