Metiria Turei and Russel Norman, co-leaders of the Green Party of New Zealand both want cannabis de-criminalized, despite believing “a drug free lifestyle was the healthiest.” According to Stuff: Turei pointed to changes in legislation controlling the drug in other countries such as the US where States such as Colorado have recently decriminalised cannabis. Cannabis was…
Tourism New Zealand is poised to ensure that New Zealand cashes in on the forthcoming Hobbit film release. After the surge in interest generated by the Lord of the Rings films (coming conveniently soon after the September 11 attacks in the US and Helen Clark cashing in by declaring New Zealand a “safe haven”) New Zealand…
(scroll to bottom to read comment from Moonlight) The Labour party has obtained a cabinet paper that reveals National is planning a raft of changes around immigration that somehow seem to have been ‘left out’ of last month’s briefing to the incoming Minister. Labour’s Immigration spokesperson Darien Fenton has issued a press about it here…
Both Mike Joy and the NZ Green Party have questioned John Key’s position on New Zealand’s 100% Pure branding. Joy has challenged John Key to prove that New Zealand is 100% Pure. . New Zealand’s economically valuable “100% Pure” brand has been questioned in international media due to the pollution of our rivers and lakes,…
The Green Party has accused the NZ government of fudging the figures for greenhouse gas emissions. They say that the 2050 emissions reduction target is “on the basis of net emissions in the future, relative to gross emissions in 1990”. The result being that emissions will not be cut by 50% by 2050 but will…
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