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Showing posts with label @James Shaw. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 19 April 2022

pn893. The Green Party: Stuck in the Middle with James and Marama. Removing the rot at the top.

While the planet burns, the Green Party thinks about changing the composition of its leadership and another blow is struck for political irrelevancy. 

GIVEN THAT the ideology of identity politics swept through the Green Party some time ago, it seems almost inevitable that out of the swamp of confused woke thinking there should emerge a proposal to change the male and female co-leadership to one where the male position will be replaced by one open to 'any gender'. 

And, according to conservative columnist Matthew Hooton, one of these two positions will have to filled by a Maori. If this is true it will be good news for the consistently under-performing Marama Davidson.

The proposals, such as they are, appear to be driven by the Green MP's. This isn't surprising because they have a bad habit of acting independently of the party membership. These self-proclaimed 'progressive' politicians continue to act in a decidedly unprogressive and autocratic manner as far as the decision making process is concerned. Indeed one of the main criticisms of disillusioned and departing Green Party members, some in senior positions, has been that the party executive has not held the caucus and leadership to account over policy decisions. 

Thursday, 16 December 2021

pn823. NZ's 2022 Budget: Big spending on Health Reforms and Climate Change obligations

Based on Luke Malpass in Stuff. Read the full article here. 

In the Budget Policy Statement, a document outlining next year’s budget priorities released on Wednesday, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced new spending, particularly on health and climate change  

He said that the Government’s overall goals for Budget 2022 will be keeping New Zealand safe from Covid-19, accelerating the recovery and rebuild from Covid-19, and laying the foundations for the future including climate change, housing affordability and child poverty.

An extra $6 billion will be spent on health reform and meeting climate goals.

Saturday, 5 December 2020

pn634. Climate change: the Enormity of the Challenge, halving our emissions



When the Prime Minister declared a climate change emergency last week, she conceded that New Zealand is unlikely to meet its commitment to reduce to a net-zero physical greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. 

And Climate Change Minister James Shaw says to meet our carbon dioxide reduction target will mean a halving of our current emissions.