Do women matter in New Zealand Politics? When I started this Blog four months ago, I wanted to see how New Zealand women MPs might influence the general elections, held last month. I made sure to outline my mission in my About section and found myself clicking through to the page often, to remind myself…
The Internet-Mana party counted on Hone Harawira winning his Te Tai Tokerau electorate to give the coalition two seats in Parliament. Which would see Laila Harré take that second seat. In what some might call a shock outcome, Kelvin Davis took the electorate from Hone Harawira. Which means: No Internet Party, no Mana Party and one…
Dominion Post: Front page Day after the elections, John Key invited his kitchen cabinet to his home in Parnell. Gerry Brownlee Bill English Steven Joyce Murray McCully I can’t link any of these names to my A-Z page. However looking closer, there will be a few women moving up in the National Party ranks.…
I found Deborah Russell‘s blog, A Bee of a Certain Age by accident on Twitter and I’m so glad I did. She stood as a Labour candidate for the first time in the Rangitikei electorate this year. It did dampen my spirits a little bit, after my previous post. It looked like women involvement in election…
Elections 2014 is over and Women in Politics update their Facebook page congratulating the women involved in the elections this year. Some interesting statistics. Percentage of women candidates rose 11.6% from last elections.
Election day and the Journalism class is organised and ready to go. The radio journalism students were out on the field, doing live crosses back to the XFM radio station. We all felt lucky to have the elections fall on our study year. I was happy to tackle the elections in this “safe” learning environment.…
Laila Harré and Hone Harawira are hoping to make it to parliament with their Internet-Man coalition. Not the Nine O’Clock News is a television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. Laila Harré took to Not the 6 o’clock news to voice her concerns over ‘media bias’ and inequality. She…
A surprise turn and news agencies scramble to live broadcast Prime Minister, John Key’s announcement from parliament yesteraday. He has accepted Judith Collins’ resignation as Justice minister. In the 2011 email blogger Cameron Slater says he spoke with Ms Collins and that she was gunning for the former director of the Serious Fraud Office, Adam…
It is in my best interest that everyone vote in the September 20 elections; here’s five reasons why you should vote according to The New Zealand Herald. I like that the first reason: 1. Honour New Zealand’s democratic legacy In 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to allow all women…
On 13 August journalist Nicky Hager launched his book Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political environment. The book reveals emails (to Cameron Slater, right-wing WhileOil blogger) from the National Government, implicating the party in a full scale smear campaign against the opposition. Prime Minister, John Key, has dismissed the book and…
Elections 2014: Women in Parliament 