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Condi’s crusaders fight back!

Conrad Reyners — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:25:19 +0000

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.

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Slippery Winston

Martin Doyle — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:51:45 +0000

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

Conrad Reyners — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:40:07 +0000

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.

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Crosby Cluster Fuck

Dr Peter Manglethwaite — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:04:08 +0000

Conservatism = fun party time! (more…)

I’m down with Te Reo

Jackson Wood — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:35:43 +0000

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. (more…)

Bribes, damned bribes, and election winners

Jackson Wood — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:52:31 +0000

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. (more…)

The Nat’s continue to defend ACC… badly.

Conrad Reyners — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:25:11 +0000

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.

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Pot Petition

Tristan Egarr — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:52:03 +0000

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 of serious medical conditions when this
has been recommended or endorsed in writing by the individual’s registered medical practitioner.”

While the number of signatures may not be overwhelming, the reasoning of the petition’s argument is. It simply asks the government to let doctors treat their patients in the most appropriate manner. NORML’s vice-president Will de Cleene points out that “What [NORML] seek is not novel, nor unreasonable. We ask that medicinal cannabis is
permitted to be used by consenting adults in consultation with their medical practitioners.” Many other nations, including Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Spain, as well as some U.S. states, have already legislated to stop prohibition from interfering with medicine, and New Zealand should do the same.

Meanwhile, Jagerbombs and Martinis will never be prescribed for anything by any doctor in their right mind, since all they do is make you convulse, throw up stomach acid and miss the first five hours of work on a Thursday morning. And what the fuck is with martinis anyway? They remind me of sculling vodka when I was little, only with an olive in it so that it’s “classy”, ooooh NO.

Political gossip page

Jackson Wood — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:10:22 +0000

In the last week things have been like totally going off in Wellington. (more…)

A Master at Work

Conrad Reyners — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:58:55 +0000

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.

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