Green Party List
May 29th, 2011 at 11:15 am by David FarrarThe Greens have released their final party list after ranking by members. Their top 15 are:
- Metiria Turei
- Russel Norman
- Kevin Hague
- Catherine Delahunty
- Kennedy Graham
- Eugenie Sage (+1)
- Gareth Hughes (-1)
- David Clendon (+1)
- Jan Logie (-1)
- Steffan Browning (+6)
- Denise Roche
- Holly Walker (-2)
- Julie Anne Genter (-1)
- Mojo Mathers (-1)
- James Shaw (-1)
The number in brackets is the movement from the draft list compiled by the hierarchy, which I blogged in April.
The big mover is Browning. He was No 12 on the list in 2008. The hierarchy put him down at no 16 which is highly unlikely to win, but the members put him up to no 10 where is highly likely to make him an MP.
The press release from Metiria Turei doesn’t mention Browning at all, despite him being the big mover. This suggests they are not too happy with his promotion – possibly he is seen as too old being in his late 50s.
There is a bit of history here. Browning is from Marlborough/Nelson and that branch has a history of using their members to push their locals up the list rankings. They did the same with Mike Ward.
It will be interesting to see how well the Greens do at the election. If Labour collapse they will be the beneficiary. On the other hand, the Mana Party may well be competing with the Greens for similiar voters.
Tags: Greens
May 29th, 2011 at 11:25 am
He makes the Don look like a spring chicken then. He could inspire Jimbo to seek another couple of terms as well.
No fool like an old fool.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:28 am
No fool like an old Luddite fool.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:28 am
I hope that is a typo. Steffan Browning is actually 57.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:31 am
I guess all that healthy green/vegetarian living and inhaling too much smoke at Green Party love-ins just make him look that old.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Even more surprising! How could you be so foolish to be a Luddite at the (supposedly) enlightened age of 57? Hard to believe.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:34 am
what an uninspiring bunch of nutcases.
Any group that would make delahunty their number 4 pick, and also keep gareth hughes after his pointless showing the past couple years needs thier head read.
what this list is really is the top 15 reasons MMP has to go. i’d like to see any of them win an electorate, hell get close to winning one. it won;t happen, becuase as much as people like dolphins and the ‘green’ image seems nice, once you drop down to the actual individuals there is nothing of substance there.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:36 am
Saint Jeanette and Saint Sue are older than that and still obviously mad Manolo.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:39 am
lucky hes on 57 eh toad? cause you do discriminate against older politicians.
the green party – equal rights for the ones we like.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:40 am
Grendel: Gareth has had about 10 Labour MPs’ worth of visibility in Parliament and the media recently. Mightn’t be your cup of tea, but “pointless” is a bit puzzling.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:45 am
About time the Luddites drop their false concern for the environment and unmask themselves for what they are: a bunch of unreformed hippies longing for power (under the euphemism of “social justice”).
The watermelons should come clean and reveal what they really are: control-freaks, statists, dyed-in-the-wool socialists.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:48 am
The Greens are not going anywhere as they are wedded to the indigenous version of Te tirritti. They will need a complete coup to break that. Meanwhile they will be the party of the ignorant and “smug spineless short-sighted imbeciles and their Greek chorus of self-righteous well-off holier-than-thou racial masochists” Round D.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Interesting look here at traditional environmental knowledge versus modern science:
Just as Māori are proud of their TEK, so too we, as practitioners of science are proud of scientific method. It has the potential to discern important predictive relationships from complex natural systems. The first muttonbirder’s diary to be statistically analysed revealed a strong correlation between annual harvest fluctuations and the Southern Oscillation Index (Lyver et al. in press.). Sophisticated statistical methods were able to identify a subtle, but ecologically very important variable influencing titi population dynamics. If a harvest is less than in the previous year, an El Nino weather pattern is predicted for the following 12 months. When a harvest increases compared with the previous year, a La Nina weather phenomenon is predicted. These lagged effects had not been noticed by the birders, and yet they point to a fundamentally important potential mechanism (climate fluctuation) for the decline in harvests and bird numbers observed in the last 10 years (Figure 1).
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/news/conferences/manaakiwhenua/papers/lyver.asp
Just because the earth is your mother doesn’t mean your gonna know about tectonic plate theory.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:52 am
thee only reaosn hughes is getting oxygen is that the MSM are lazy and put him on tele. the greens are desperate to look reasonable and think that hughes shows that (only becuase people are too lazy to look at his background), and their conspirators in the media are only too happy to do whaat the greens want.
He was a totally inexperienced in anything inlife other being arrested. now he is in parliament, what has changed? he has a nice suit (funny how he does not mind the benefits of capitalism when it suits him), a high salary and lots of media atention.
but what has he actually done? other than be a mouthpiece for the greens latest crap.
Jami-lee ross might be as young and pointless but at least he has actually won elections where someone had to tick his name, hughes coasted in on the back of the rediculous list system.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:53 am
With the global warming scam exposed and their peak oil scaremongering proven totally false I wonder what emergency they will manufacture next to justify their fascism?
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:55 am
A return to FPP will solve most of NZ’s problems and as a bonus eradicate this useless bunch of charlatans.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 11:56 am
There is a much credibility on that list, as Bill Clinton’s statement “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
Reason 3,267 why we need to dump MMP at the earliest opportunity.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
State of the Pakeha Nation 07 Catherine Delahunty
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0702/S00068.htm
“I am very excited that we are moving into a more sophisticated era under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and we are moving beyond the limited concept of conservative Pākehā that one man, one vote is the only manifestation of democracy possible in Aotearoa.’
http://www.greens.org.nz/speeches/more-sophisticated-era-under-te-tiriti-o-waitangi
“I explained that as a Pakeha I had a very limited relationship with the foreshore and seabed but “loved the beach” generally. This did not compare well to the 1000 years of whakapapa and site specific responsibilities that Betty and her hapu maintain to this day. Yet she had been refused a chance to speak. I also waved a copy of Te Tiriti around in a flamboyant manner.
Betty talked very clearly about her people and their relationship to their foreshore and how Te Tiriti reaffirms their customary rights, therefore the Bill cannot pass. She is 71 years old and has given her whole life to kaitiakitanga. It was a privilege to be beside her. It was also great to have Tariana and Metiria at the table emanating their respect and love for her korero. From the window we could see across to Hauraki and Te Moehau the mountain shining on the horizon as she rises up from Tikapa Moana.
Then Gordon Jackman, wearing his “qualified archaeologist” hat took the Committee on a journey from a beach of sand and shells through to the 1868 Deed of Cession on the East Coast, wherein the foreshore and seabed were never ceded. He explained how from the archaeological layers they uncovered at the Port of Gisborne, you can see people arriving, establishing manawhenua and adapting to population expansion from within their cultural framework, and then the violent imposition of Pakeha power in that place. Gordon challenged the committee to re assess their limited understanding of the term “ownership” and to recognise that the Bill was a continuation of Crown violence based on a crude and absurd underestanding of the word”ownership” He described the process as part of “democratheid” a word he has coined which describes the majority imposition of racist policy in a democrarcy. He also described the consequences as not civil war in the conventional sense but a long term proliferation of misery, poverty, misunderstanding and injustice.
“The other MPs except for Tariana and Metiria, trotted out all the favourite myths about “they killed the moa” etc”
http://www.greens.org.nz/misc-documents/diary-debacle-archive-6th-september-15th-september
CLENDON CHALLENGES MINISTERIAL NO ON OFFSHORE DRILLING
Green MP David Clendon isn’t taking no for an answer over whether Maori have a right to a share in oil and gas under New Zealand’s continental shelf.
Mr Clendon got the one-word answer last week when he asked Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee if the Government intended to consider Te Aupouri’s claims to resources off 90-Mile beach which are being opened up for prospecting.
He doesn’t accept the Government’s assertion that the International law of the Sea and the Continental Shelf Act rule out treaty claims.
“This is a very live issue and if there is wealth to be extracted it would seem clear both under treaty and under international law that Maori should get a reasonable claim, a reasonable royalty from that wealth,” Mr Clendon says.
http://www.waatea.blogspot.com
Kevin Hague
“We are moving into a new phase of the collective national discussion about the Treaty, and as Greens we have a responsibility both to be an active and ethical voice in that discussion but also to work to equip others to participate in that discussion from an informed and principled basis, rather than sheer short term self interest.
Discussion to date has focused on the return of usually a small fraction of those resources unfairly taken from Maori as reparation, on reducing inequalities and on the rights of Maori as an ethnic and cultural minority with a threatened language and culture. While some of these issues have been addressed in part through the deliberations of the Waitangi Tribunal, these issues are, in fact, largely unrelated to the Treaty. If there were no Treaty, as there is not in a number of other societies around the world, these would all still be issues that would need to be addressed in a fair and just society.
The phase of the discussion that we now need to move into is one that that focuses on Maori status as the indigenous people of this country and on the actual content of the Treaty: a statement of the terms and conditions for the presence of non-Maori. The Maori right to self-determination pre-dated the Treaty and was not altered by it. What is at issue in understanding the Treaty are the rights of non-Maori.
This article was printed in Te Awa, the Magazine of the Green Party of Aotearoa.
……
One of jh’s themes has been dis-satisfaction with the Green Party for not being specific about the outcomes of our policy in relation to the Treaty. “What, specifically, will this country be like if we go down this course?”. It’s a question I have heard many times over the years, and it usually speaks from a position of fear and insecurity for Pakeha: what if I’ll be worse off? or even what if there’s no place for me?
I want to acknowledge that actually we are asking people to do something (and we are doing it too) quite different from what we usually ask with our policy. Normally we have a very clear idea of the outcome we are seeking, and establish a policy to reflect how we will get there.
But the Treaty is different. The words all have the potential to sound pretty hammy, but fundamentally the outcome being sought is a process: the process of absolute good faith negotiation, in which we Pakeha engage from a position of honour – acting ethically and morally.
That process involves courage because we don’t know the outcome (and because we know we have it pretty sweet just how things are, let’s be honest). It is pretty scary, but it’s also pretty damn exciting!
http://blog.greens.org.nz/2010/05/03/my-speech-at-blackball-2010/
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
no idea why Turei is No1 ahead of Wussell and Delahunty no4 .. there rests their problem
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
“With the global warming scam exposed and their peak oil scaremongering proven totally false…”
…….
“it has often been said that even without a price on carbon there will be a meaningful shift to renewable energy sources once global oil supply peaks.
At that point, the idea is that crude prices — along with the price of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel — will begin to shoot up, making biofuels, low-emission synthetic fuels and green electricity for transportation a better bargain and investment target over time.
It’s safe to say we’re in the “peak oil” zone, conventionally speaking. The evidence of this is that oil prices have found a near-permanent home in triple-digit territory.
So, has there been a mad rush to invest in cleaner, relatively more affordable alternatives to oil? Not really — it’s been more like a casual stroll, even though such alternatives are highly competitive with oil above $100 (U.S.) a barrel.
Instead, the big oil companies are doubling down by going after fossil fuel resources that are dirtier, harder to access and more energy-intensive to extract.
That’s what Don Roberts is observing. Roberts is vice-chairman of renewable energy investments within CIBC’s wholesale banking group. He says the big petroleum companies are making some investments in green energy, such a solar, wind and biofuels, but it’s a “drop in the bucket” compared to the money being spent on the exploration, drilling and extraction of unconventional — i.e. heavy — oil.
“The hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques they’ve honed in the natural gas sector (are) now being taken over to the oil space,” Roberts says. “It doesn’t surprise me, given where the price of oil is. You can get a bigger return.”
Vote:http://peakoil.com/production/pricey-oil-fuelling-dirtier-projects/
May 29th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
hj,
Exactly, hydraulic fracturing has totally changed the game; for gas and for oil.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/business/energy-environment/28shale.html?_r=1
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Where’s Jack McDonald? Or do the elections clash with School Cert exams?
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
I hope for the country’s sake these guy dont get in, and if they dont I hope the lean more to the environmental side of the left, than the political.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
@ Longknives: Juggernaut Jack is… errr, No 30. Last on their list. Has been told he’ll move to 29 when he starts shaving.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
hj,
Exactly, hydraulic fracturing has totally changed the game; for gas and for oil.
……….
35 million affected by drought in China.
http://australianetworknews.com/stories/201105/3229850.htm?desktop
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
“no idea why Turei is No1 ahead of Wussell and Delahunty no4 ”
Wussell and Mad need to increase the dimensions of their bones if they hope to get ahead.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
hj,
er, non sequitur.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
C02 is a greenhouse gas
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
For all their Te Tiriti crap, the Greens are the whitest party in New Zealand. Their worst electorates are all in South Auckland. Their best ones are all in Wellington. They are the party of privileged, white, upper-class bureaucrats, the banning party, the nanny party, who wish to live in a country where nothing is legal except cannabis, prostitution and abortion. I’d be embarrassed to be them.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
“Australian actor Cate Blanchett in a new ad campaign calling for a carbon tax.
Michael Caton is also taking part in the campaign backed by unions ansd lobby groups.
The national campaign called “Say Yes” is being launched in Sydney today.
The CEO of World Wildlife Foundation Australia, Dermot O’Gorman, says the campaign’s aimed at building community support for a tax and encouraging alternative energy sources.”
A well it must be the right thing to do after all Cate said so.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
hj,
“C02 is a greenhouse gas”
So you’re claiming that the drought in China is due to anthropogenic global warming?
That’s very naughty of you.
Did they not have droughts in China before industrialisation then? I think they did, because I just googled it and instantly found this:
“A Long Lasting and Extensive Drought Event over China in 1876-1878″
“Between 1876 and 1878 a large-scale drought occurred in China…during a spell of frequent El Niño events and corresponds with an extremely strong El Niño.” [of course, the region has again just been experiencing the effects of el nino.]
http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=12&ved=0CCAQFjABOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.climatechange.cn%2FEN%2Farticle%2FdownloadArticleFile.do%3FattachType%3DPDF%26id%3D8362&rct=j&q=china%20drought%20%22el%20nino%22&ei=0a3hTfPuLZDGvQPx9sCVBw&usg=AFQjCNGEPQZDstoE73H0FcGRCu7AkjXu8A&cad=rja
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Wat Says:
“Did they not have droughts in China before industrialisation then?”
…..
Gee!
Anthropocene: Nature
Humanity’s profound impact on this planet is hard to deny, but is it big enough to merit its own geological epoch? This is the question facing geoscientists gathered in London this week to debate the validity and definition of the ‘Anthropocene’, a proposed new epoch characterized by human effects on the geological record.
“We are in the process of formalizing it,” says Michael Ellis, head of the climate-change programme of the British Geological Survey in Nottingham, who coordinated the 11 May meeting. He and others hope that adopting the term will shift the thinking of policy-makers. “It should remind them of the global and significant impact that humans have,” says Ellis.
Vote:http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/473133a.html
May 29th, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Did the jolly good Pommie chaps play a game of cricket with a straight bat after the conference or did they cheat and use a hockey stick?
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
What a talented bunch of MPs! – Such a diverse mix of people with an incredible range of skills and abilities. How exciting for the Green Party, and New Zealand!!!!
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Back to their list, I am surprised after saying they value age, sex, island and ethnicity equally and push Hughes down one…
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
@BlairM 1:43 pm
The Greens have three Maori (Metiria Turei, David Clendon and Denise Roche) in their top 12 who on current polling can reasonably expect to get elected. How many do National, Labour and ACT have that high?
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Hughes claimed to have “protested in Tienanmen Square” (a credibility issue?).
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
The Greens have three Maori (Metiria Turei, David Clendon and Denise Roche) in their top 12 who on current polling can reasonably expect to get elected. How many do National, Labour and ACT have that high?
…..
You would hope that the message would transcend a persons racial linages.
Vote:May 29th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
How many Chinese, Samoan, Tongan, Indian or Pakistanis on the list Toady?
Vote:June 7th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
David Clendon? Denise Roche? Seriously?
My party has the very excellent Jami-Lee Ross, Paula Bennett, Simon Bridges… also we had a fulla called Sir Apirana Ngata back in the day, you may have heard of him.
The Greens are nowhere with Maori no matter how many tokens they put up. You are whiter than fricking sour cream, and you make more money than I do. You are all about privilege and whiteness, but can’t admit it.
Vote: