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Condi’s crusaders fight back!

By Conrad Reyners | July 25, 2008

We all know the media storm that has erupted over the Auckland University Student Association President David Do’s offer of awarding $5000 to any person who performed a citizens arrest for war crimes. The story has taken the world by storm, and the international media have reacted to it strongly. Its been splashed across the screens of the United States, and has been picked up by the BBC, Reuters, USA Today, the Washington Post, and even Fox News.

Slippery Winston

By Martin Doyle | July 25, 2008

Unedited Roger Douglas Interview. Full transcript. July 23rd 2008.

By Conrad Reyners | July 23, 2008

I sat down with Sir Roger Douglas, former Labour Party Senior Cabinet Minister, Minister of Finance, founder of the ACT party, current ACT electoral candidate in Hunua and the main proponent of the economic reform policies of ‘rogernomics’ in the 1980’s. An abridged version will appear in print next week for all those who are too lazy to educate themselves. The full interview follows after the jump. And its hot off the press due to the large interest thats been indicated. So go away grammar nazis.

Crosby Cluster Fuck

By Dr Peter Manglethwaite | July 22, 2008

Conservatism = fun party time!

I’m down with Te Reo

By Jackson Wood | July 22, 2008

A poll on stuff.co.nz the other day asked readers whether they would be making an effort to use Māori during this week, as it is Māori language week. The options were, YES a little, YES but I won’t go out of my way, NO I’m not good with languages, NO I don’t care. This struck me as odd, because Māori is one of the three official languages of New Zealand, and has been since the passing of the Māori Language Act in 1987.

Bribes, damned bribes, and election winners

By Jackson Wood | July 18, 2008

It worked in 2005 for Labour. They threw a carrot out into the electorate and we devoured it like the impoverished students we are. Here in 2008 we see Labour thinking about pulling the same stunt. The release of a policy paper for the costing of providing a universal student allowance, in what would be a blatant plagiarism of other parties policy and an attempt to get a pass grade at the up coming election.

The Nat’s continue to defend ACC… badly.

By Conrad Reyners | July 18, 2008

The Nat’s ACC policy has already been dubbed the “Australian Cash Cow” Policy, but yet the Nats are still trying to defend the policy as one that will benefit small and middle New Zealand. To date, they’ve been unable to explain why that is the case, and how its going to happen.

Pot Petition

By Tristan Egarr | July 17, 2008

A delegation from the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Law (NORML) appeared before the Health select committee yesterday, to present their 6,000-signature Medicinal Cannabis petition. The petition states:

“That parliament give urgent attention to changing the law to allow individuals to obtain, possess and use cannabis for treatment …

Political gossip page

By Jackson Wood | July 15, 2008

In the last week things have been like totally going off in Wellington.

A Master at Work

By Conrad Reyners | July 14, 2008

Below the jump is a link to extended TV3 footage of Winston Peters denying allegations of any donor relationship with Owen Glen. Theres some great politicking and media dodging here. Winston is surely a master of the soundbite and of dealing to the media scrum.