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Labour: Greens are the first cab off the rank

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:38 am, March 3rd, 2017 - 19 comments

Andrew Little has confirmed that the Green Party will be first party Labour looks to for a coalition deal after the election.

National bolster their moribund blue-greens

Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:28 am, February 28th, 2017 - 74 comments

I read this morning in Politik that Vernon Tava has left the Greens and appears to be leaning towards National. It doesn’t seem to me to much of a problem to lose a conservationist to National. It just means that the Greens can concentrate more effectively on the work of getting everyone trying to build a cleaner sustainable future.

Green Party Member’s Bill to protect freshwater

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:35 am, February 27th, 2017 - 16 comments

The Green Party has launched a member’s bill that will keep water from underground sources, called aquifers, safe from pollution and contamination.

Green Party candidates and vision speech (updated)

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:55 pm, February 26th, 2017 - 14 comments

James Shaw addresses Green Party candidates and shares their vision for Aotearoa New Zealand

The Mt Albert By election

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:00 am, February 25th, 2017 - 80 comments

It is election day today in Mt Albert for the successor to David Shearer.

Comments are open.

It’s past time to be bold about water

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:00 am, February 25th, 2017 - 147 comments

Water is both the front line and the rallying cry.

Mt Albert – the left and the right

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:29 am, February 24th, 2017 - 80 comments

All the best to all candidates, and thank you to Julie Anne Genter and Jacinda Ardern for showing us all such a model of cooperation.

2017

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:48 am, February 23rd, 2017 - 130 comments

The left is facing the possiblity of its fourth election loss in a row. What type of campaign should it run this year to win?

Kaupapa Pākehā

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:50 am, February 22nd, 2017 - 329 comments

What if we based our politics on relationships not power?

The Greens in Te Tai Tokerau

Written By: weka - Date published: 2:13 pm, February 20th, 2017 - 13 comments

Te Tai Tokerau looks to be a hotly contested seat in the 2017 general election, and the Greens are entering the fray there for the first time, with new candidate Godfrey Rudolph.

What’s the deal? There isn’t one.

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:17 am, February 17th, 2017 - 132 comments

What are the Greens up to then?

Kia Kaha Canterbury

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, February 16th, 2017 - 35 comments

It seems almost inevitable that the recent fires in Canterbury and the Hawkes Bay are the result of climate change and the harbingers of things to come.

Government will not support victims of domestic violence

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:33 am, February 14th, 2017 - 19 comments

The Government is refusing to support Jan Logie’s bill aimed at helping the victims of domestic violence despite the bill receiving support from the ANZ and Business New Zealand supporting the bill going at least to select committee.

Greens stand aside in Ōhāriu

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:47 am, February 14th, 2017 - 114 comments

Putting aside misgivings for the sake of the greater good is a mark of political maturity which many politicians and commentators could learn from.

“We’ve got the vibe, they’ve got the shivers”

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 8th, 2017 - 3 comments

Green Party co-leader James Shaw’s 2017 Parliamentary Commencement Speech

We need to talk about immigration

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:09 am, February 5th, 2017 - 189 comments

How does the left discuss the immigration debate so that it can counter the anti immigration sentiments fostered by the likes of Donald Trump, Theresa May and Malcolm Turnbull?

A good week for Labour and Greens

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:27 pm, February 4th, 2017 - 25 comments

Following on from their joint “state of the nation” it’s been a good week for the political left in NZ. Here’s a roundup.

The Labour Green 2017 campaign launch

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:14 am, January 30th, 2017 - 33 comments

Yesterday’s joint Labour Green state of the nation event was effectively a campaign launch for the 2017 election. And it went well.

Labour Greens joint State of the Nation livestream and discussion

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:30 pm, January 29th, 2017 - 121 comments

Be part of the movement to change the Government. Sunday 2pm.

Updated with speeches

Labour and Greens joint State of the Nation speech Sunday 2pm

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:24 pm, January 27th, 2017 - 77 comments

Be part of the movement to change the Government.

Mt Albert – a friendly by-election

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:56 am, January 23rd, 2017 - 61 comments

Campaigning is underway in Mt Albert. Looks like it will be a very different kind of by election.

Labour Greens plan joint state of the nation

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:42 pm, January 17th, 2017 - 36 comments

Good to see the effects of the MOU in action!

Julie Anne Genter to stand in Mt Albert by-election

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:46 am, January 13th, 2017 - 39 comments

Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter will be standing in the Mount Albert by-election to be held on 25 February

Labour Green seat deals – about bloody time

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 12:36 pm, November 29th, 2016 - 69 comments

Reports that Labour and the Greens will cooperate in some seats. Watch Patrick Gower’s head explode! But this is no Epsom.

Politik on Labour/ Greens

Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:57 am, November 24th, 2016 - 18 comments

I was rather amused reading Politik’s “Despite the pact Shaw takes on Robertson“ and was struck by the strange way that some political commentators (and probably some politicians) view the world at the political coalface. They really need to start to think about political parties as being like any other organisation. Tactical compromises without a strategic focus will always kill any organisation – eventually.