Saturday, October 25, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Greens in Hot Water over Family Size Comments
From the New Zealand Herald...
The Green Party was last night forced to defend itself against claims that its new population policy is a move towards China's "One Child" regime.
The policy proposes setting a level of population New Zealand could sustain and leaving room within that for climate change refugees from Pacific Islands.
It also wants parents educated about the impacts of population growth when they are planning their family size and how far apart to have children.
National, Act and the Maori Party described it as a step towards population control measures similar to China's One Child policy.
Last night, the party released a statement by senior MP Keith Locke saying its policy had been misinterpreted.
Of course he would say that. And now here's some comments from the other parties...
Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said it was a case of "middle-class" Greens trying to tell others how big their families should be.
"Tell them to go to China where there is a One Child policy. But don't start trying to control fertility and social engineering like that here."
Tariana Turia said it flew in the face of the Greens' immigration policy to boost refugee numbers from 750 to 1000 a year.
"They want to increase numbers of people coming in from the outside but they're trying to stop people in this country from having the family size they want. Well, it's none of their business."
National's Judith Collins said it amounted to a "guilt trip" to discourage people from having several children.
"We don't want to have that extension of nanny state into people's homes. If they are going to make parents of three, four or five children feel guilty, that's disgraceful."
Act leader Rodney Hide said it was a first step toward zero-population growth. He suggested that perhaps if parents planted a field of trees, they might be able to have twins.
It's encouraging to see the Maori Party lashing out with conviction against Nanny State legislation. Good on them.
The Green Party was last night forced to defend itself against claims that its new population policy is a move towards China's "One Child" regime.
The policy proposes setting a level of population New Zealand could sustain and leaving room within that for climate change refugees from Pacific Islands.
It also wants parents educated about the impacts of population growth when they are planning their family size and how far apart to have children.
National, Act and the Maori Party described it as a step towards population control measures similar to China's One Child policy.
Last night, the party released a statement by senior MP Keith Locke saying its policy had been misinterpreted.
Of course he would say that. And now here's some comments from the other parties...
Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said it was a case of "middle-class" Greens trying to tell others how big their families should be.
"Tell them to go to China where there is a One Child policy. But don't start trying to control fertility and social engineering like that here."
Tariana Turia said it flew in the face of the Greens' immigration policy to boost refugee numbers from 750 to 1000 a year.
"They want to increase numbers of people coming in from the outside but they're trying to stop people in this country from having the family size they want. Well, it's none of their business."
National's Judith Collins said it amounted to a "guilt trip" to discourage people from having several children.
"We don't want to have that extension of nanny state into people's homes. If they are going to make parents of three, four or five children feel guilty, that's disgraceful."
Act leader Rodney Hide said it was a first step toward zero-population growth. He suggested that perhaps if parents planted a field of trees, they might be able to have twins.
It's encouraging to see the Maori Party lashing out with conviction against Nanny State legislation. Good on them.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Greens and Child Pornography
This article on the Semper Vita blog offers another perspective on the Green party...
I was driving to work this morning and I saw this new Green Party election hoarding…
I actually find this billboard quite ironic, because in 2005 the Greens were the only political party to oppose a clause in a bill which made the maximum penalty for possession of child pornography 5 years jail, in fact they wanted the maximum penalty for possession of child pornography to be lowered to just 2 years.
I was driving to work this morning and I saw this new Green Party election hoarding…
Saturday, October 4, 2008
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Greens Hovering on Brink of Electoral Oblivion
I have been saying for some time that the Greens should be polling much higher than they are - picking up “ethical left” voters disgusted with Labour who can not bring themselves to vote centre-right.
But they continue to hover on the brink of electoral oblivion. Look at the five polls in September...
from David Farrar's Kiwiblog - read the rest of this post here.
But they continue to hover on the brink of electoral oblivion. Look at the five polls in September...
from David Farrar's Kiwiblog - read the rest of this post here.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Greens Hoardings Clever but Meaningless
We've seen the hoardings popping up around the place. Cute little kiddies, nice lighting, encapsulates the Kiwi spirit really well. And then on top of that you've got "Vote for us". Hey, full-marks to the photographer, the photos are really nice. But what's the message? It's trying to say "if you care about the next generation, vote for the Green party". But there is no policy there, no promises, just a pretty blunt request for your party vote.
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