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Caught in the ACT
Written By: - Date published: 7:43 am, October 24th, 2008 - 48 comments
The Dom Post reports that ACT will have to file amended returns after failing to declare $20,000 of donated office space. Luckily for ACT nobody found out until they got past the time-limit for prosecution. Rodney Hide is, of course, not embarrassed. I’m reminded of that proverb about glass-houses.
Sensible Sentencing Trust in drag?
Written By: - Date published: 7:44 pm, October 19th, 2008 - 29 comments
Act have run an anti-crime protest outside of Mt Eden today and it was particularly theatrical by the sound of it with lots of coffin lids and whatnot. ACT have never done anything like this before. But the Sensible Sentencing Trust certainly has. I’ve asked before why the trust has refused to register as a […]
Party like you matter
Written By: - Date published: 8:17 pm, October 18th, 2008 - 55 comments
There’s so much to comment on about the policies and parties that matter that we hardly ever get to time to mention ACT. But I couldn’t resist this brochure from the zero tolerance liberals: (it says ‘not your typical party’ in the yellow box) Thoughts: – did ACT think they were the first to see […]
Compliments and questions
Written By: - Date published: 3:20 pm, September 18th, 2008 - 25 comments
First, it’s nice to be pleasantly surprised by a tory. Turns out Tony Friedlander’s Road Transport Trust is not just donating to National. As well as $30K to the Nats, Labour got $20K and other parties will get something as well to help the democratic process. Can’t help but notice National got the most though. […]
ACT’s fifth Candidate?
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, September 18th, 2008 - 54 comments
The word around the traps is that ACT will be announcing the name of its mystery 5th list candidate at its Law and Order policy launch this weekend and it’s rumoured that the candidate will be David Garrett. Garrett is a Barrister and is also a legal advisor to the Sensible Sentencing Trust who drafted […]
Nothing to Hide? + more moaning
Written By: - Date published: 3:50 pm, September 15th, 2008 - 46 comments
Prime is running a series of interviews every Sunday until the election with the leader of each party in Parliament, starting with Rodney Hide last night. It was surprisingly good. Hosted by Bill Ralston with a panel of Barry Soper, Audrey Young, and Colin Espiner, some good questions were asked and Hide himself was good […]
The truth behind the Shawn Tan affair
Written By: - Date published: 1:27 pm, September 10th, 2008 - 43 comments
For the last several weeks the EPMU has had to weather an extraordinary series of attacks from ACT, ACT candidate and EPMU employee Shawn Tan, and right-wing activist/Herald journalist Lincoln Tan. The union has been accused of breaching Tan’s human rights and racism but it has had to respond to these attacks with one hand […]
ACT unauthorised
Written By: - Date published: 12:48 pm, September 5th, 2008 - 43 comments
ACT: the guts to do what’s right1 2 1. except when it comes to properly authorising our election advertisements 2. oh, and global warming
Guest Post: Herald like a blow-hard blogger on Tan
Written By: - Date published: 4:12 pm, August 29th, 2008 - 32 comments
After a fair summary of the facts as they stand, the Herald enters the realm of the right-wing blogger, always ready to paint its opponent with the worst possible spin, and then build on that as if on fact: ‘That version of events avoids, as it must, any hint of the suspension being politically motivated. […]
Reflections on Shawn Tan
Written By: - Date published: 7:46 pm, August 23rd, 2008 - 57 comments
There’s a lot of heat but not much light in the debate about the EPMU’s suspension of Shawn Tan. What we know from the media is that Tan was told he had to seek approval from the union’s national executive in line with his collective agreement and the rules of the union and then failed […]
Hide on Nats’ woes
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, August 6th, 2008 - 45 comments
“the best solution is to say in private what you say in public” * Simple, really.
Roy puts Police informants at risk
Written By: - Date published: 11:23 am, June 27th, 2008 - 12 comments
ACT is turning to increasingly desperate attempts to win media attention. Raising Roger Douglas from the dead didn’t work (he only got 6 people to come to his latest speech). Now, Heather Roy has named a police informant in Parliament. This pathetic attempt to raise a petty scandal has put the life of the informant […]
Vote National, get ACT
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, May 27th, 2008 - 78 comments
A source present at the University of Victoria debating society event last night tells us that Heather Roy referred to herself frequently (but we’re told lightheartedly) as the Minister of Education in a National/ACT government before handing out these scholarships vouchers… you’ll notice it’s even signed by Roger Douglas <shiver>.
ACT: tax cuts for the rich, please
Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, May 13th, 2008 - 139 comments
Rodney Hide is calling for the Budget’s tax cuts to take the form of raising the thresholds to account for inflation since 1999, removing of the 39 cent bracket, and a $10,000 tax-free bracket. What would ACT’s tax cuts entail for New Zealanders? Hide says the average cut would be $50 a week, so we […]
Prebble out of step with Mainfreight board
Written By: - Date published: 3:39 pm, May 6th, 2008 - 23 comments
This morning on Breakfast Prebble called the government buy-back of trains and ferries “loony”. What’s alarming is that Prebble is on Mainfreight’s board of directors. His comments appear to put him seriously out of step with Mainfreight’s chief executive Don Braid, who commented: Provided the Government manages it [the rail operations] in a commercial way […]
Rodney Hide answers your questions
Written By: - Date published: 9:23 am, April 28th, 2008 - 27 comments
We’re very pleased to have ACT leader Rodney Hide respond to your questions as part of our Interview the Leaders series. Question to all leaders: Of which of your achievements in politics are you most proud? Making the IRD legally and culturally more accountable and responsive and getting my Regulatory Responsibility Bill to the Commerce Committee and, I […]
Interview the leaders V: Maori Party
Written By: - Date published: 2:10 pm, April 21st, 2008 - 41 comments
Even amateur, part-time bloggers sometimes make mistakes, and last week we didn’t send Clark her questions until Wednesday, rather than Monday, due to a miscommunication between ourselves. So, we extended her deadline to this Wednesday. We’ll post her replies when we get them. In the meantime, here are the questions to ACT’s Rodney Hide that […]
ACT: shamelessly campaigning with your money
Written By: - Date published: 3:46 pm, April 18th, 2008 - 81 comments
Earlier in the week we heard that Heather Roy may have broken the Electoral Finance Act by including party advertising messages in her weekly taxpayer funded newsletters without the required authorisation by ACT’s financial agent. This time round she’s added the necessary authorisation but decided that it’s still ok to bill us for hearing from […]
Interview the leaders IV: ACT
Written By: - Date published: 3:06 pm, April 14th, 2008 - 34 comments
A big thanks to Greens’ co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimmons for participating in our ‘Interview the leaders’ series. Her answers provided an insight into how the Greens view themselves as influencing political culture as much as promoting specific policies. Our next leader is Prime Minister Helen Clark of Labour. The general question remains: Of which of your achievements in politics are you […]
ACT on campus defy party pill ban
Written By: - Date published: 9:24 am, April 1st, 2008 - 20 comments
I wonder if the ACT Party Secretary’s authorisation, top left, will make it harder for ACT to deny, as they have in the past, that ACT on campus are outside their control. (Hat-tip: Alex N)
Cheap thrills
Written By: - Date published: 5:15 pm, March 31st, 2008 - 7 comments
If you’re in the market for some cheap BZP but don’t want to sell your soul to the ACT Party to get your hands on it, apparently you’re in luck.
John’s quick act sets up another flip
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, March 21st, 2008 - 19 comments
Two days ago we ran a piece called ‘If I were ACT’s campaign strategist‘ which suggested ‘ACT needs to lay claim to the true right, without going so extreme that National has to disown them, by articulating a series of classic right-wing policies including: tax cuts, spending cuts, asset sales, and deregulation’. I didn’t realise […]
Whatever, Roger
Written By: - Date published: 5:38 pm, March 20th, 2008 - 74 comments
NZers’ wallets will bulge under Act, says Roger Douglas. Sure they will Roger – with the bills from our kids’ user-pays schools, our privatised hospital fees, water charges, private accident insurance premiums and, if your party gets half a chance, the privatised oxygen from the air we breathe. Because we all know who gets rich […]
Rodney’s weightloss secret revealed! (maybe)
Written By: - Date published: 9:50 am, March 20th, 2008 - 22 comments
We’d assumed it was all the dancing but perhaps there’s another explanation. Stuff reports that: ACT on Campus – the youth branch of the party – apparently sold BZP party pills last month for $1 each to Auckland University students as an inducement to get them to join ACT.
If I were ACT’s campaign strategist
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, March 19th, 2008 - 28 comments
What strategy should the parties pursue ahead of the election? This series of posts will attempt to answer that question, party by party, starting with ACT. ACT must gain support from hard-right voters who are dissatisfied with John Key’s wishy-washy centrism. They’ve made a good start of it by getting back Roger Douglas, the Dalai Lama of big […]
John Ansell’s reverse Midas touch
Written By: - Date published: 2:07 pm, March 17th, 2008 - 22 comments
Oh dear. It started with Roger Douglas and now political ad-man John Ansell has got on board the ACT train to electoral oblivion as well. Ansell’s most famous work to date is the National Party’s racist iwi/kiwi billboards of the 2005 election but our sources tell us his stocks dropped considerably with the party after […]
A blast to the past
Written By: - Date published: 10:31 am, March 10th, 2008 - 21 comments
Polling consistently around 1% ACT have decided that the only way forward is rejuvenation and fresh ideas.
Political correctness gone Möbius
Written By: - Date published: 11:46 am, November 1st, 2007 - 4 comments
In the wildly twisty turny inverted think of Rodney Hide it is both possible to say all violence is wrong and that smacking isn’t violence so that’s OK. Mr. Hide’s October media release states: “violence in any circumstance is unacceptable” In May Mr. Hide stated that: “I think the issue of the smacking of children—not […]
What is this woman doing in Parliament?
Written By: - Date published: 5:00 pm, September 24th, 2007 - 6 comments
Here’s a tip you can take to the bank: if you’re ever worried you’re no good at your job and need some cheering up, you can’t go too far wrong with Heather Roy’s Diary. Of all the dreadful, party-approved pap that streams out of Parliament on a Friday afternoon, Heather’s newsletter is surely the pick […]
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