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3-Sep-2005

CIVIL UNIONS
Labour, Greens, Progressive: No change.
National: Conscience issue which Don Brash said should go to referendum. Family spokeswoman Judith Collins advocates restricting civil unions to gay couples only.
United Future: Amend law to protect gay couples' rights to share and inherit property and be buried together, but remove equal status with marriage; propose bill to define marriage as between man and woman.
NZ First: Hold referendum on repealing Civil Union Bill; support bill defining marriage as between man and woman.
Act: Conscience issue, may go to referendum; support bill defining marriage as between man and woman.
Maori Party: Tariana Turia voted against Civil Union Bill.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

25-Aug-2005

A total of 739 people are standing for Parliament and 19 parties are seeking the important party vote, the Chief Electoral Office says, releasing all electorate and party list nominations. And one of the more interesting sets of candidates will be East Coast, vacated by retiring Labour MP Janet Mackey.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

24-Aug-2005

Pacific Islanders have traditionally voted Labour but Angela Gregory reports that support is no longer guaranteed.
Tongan warden Alexis Huni has been a loyal Labour voter since he arrived in New Zealand in 1975.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

17-Aug-2005

At a cattle sale in Te Awamutu, Arapuni farmer Owen Emmett and his niece Shirley Emmett are giving the Herald a morality lesson.
"I'm quite disappointed in the lack of support of family issues with things like civil unions," Mr Emmett says.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

17-Aug-2005

Once again the ugly head of the self-proclaimed saviours of family and society has reared. I for one am so sick of those faux-christians blaming gay people for the demise of society and the breakdown of the family. It really is nauseating to hear the perpetual BS they gush forth comparing gay people to the heterosexual paedophile. If they put the same effort and energy into resolving our violent domestic crime, child abuse and rapes and murders, society would be a much better place. But I guess fear does funny things to funny people....Why on earth people like the destiny church/party and its sheep cannot understand that this country is made up of individuals who believe in all sorts of religions and and have their own belief systems that do not necessarily concur with Destiny's so where do they get off forcing it on others? Bishop bling bling and his wife et al are allowed their opinion sure, but to force it upon others? - Scapegoat
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

15-Aug-2005

GABA is please to announce that Prime Minister Helen Clark has set aside a night in her busy pre-election schedule to have dinner with GABA members and guests.
Join us for what promises to be a very special evening with our Prime Minister. Dinner will be a unique opportunity to hear from Helen as to her thoughts on the current state of our country as we move into what promises to be a most intese and significant election campaign. A dinner conversation with the Prime Minister four weeks from the election may help those of us still undecided on our vote.
Read the full story/Visit the site - GABA

14-Aug-2005

...but if it was, at least it should be statistics from a proper sample, not like the Sunday Star Times' "Great Morality Debate", which is trying to pass off a self-selected sample of conservatives brought there under some 1960s conception of "morality" as a "survey" that represents "us".
Read the full story/Visit the site - Keith Ng - Public Address

13-Aug-2005

Liberal or just plain licentious? Wellingtonians stand apart when it comes to matters of morality.
Forget about Auckland as sin city:
according to an independent survey of 10,000 New Zealanders, the capital's inhabitants are far more relaxed about sexual morality than those anywhere else in the country.
Read the full story/Visit the site - The Dominion Post

7-Jul-2005

Actually, there ARE ways in which gay people and straight people differ. The most blindingly obvious of these is in having children, which is why people resent a Government they see as being heavily influenced by gays making laws about parenting.
The vast majority of us say – according to a survey last week – that the Government should shelve its plans to ban parents using corporal punishment. That view will be reflected in the way a jury recently found a Timaru woman not guilty of assaulting her son, though she'd beaten him with a horsewhip and a bamboo cane. It accepted the sincerity of her intention to discipline him for his own good.
Read the full story/Visit the site - The Dominion Post

5-Jul-2005

Muslim MP Ashraf Choudhary will not condemn the traditional Koran punishment of stoning to death some homosexuals and people who have extra-marital affairs.
But the Labour MP - who has struggled with his "role" as the sole parliamentary representative of the local Muslim community - is not advocating the practice here.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

4-Jul-2005

An unconventional American feminist is warning New Zealanders not to follow the American path of "positive discrimination" in favour of women and racial minorities.
Tammy Bruce, a lesbian talkshow host who supports abortion but voted for George W. Bush, says returning land to American Indians has led to alcoholism, hopelessness and suicide.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

2-Jul-2005

At 6am today, a woman with long dark hair and brown eyes is due to arrive at Auckland Airport from Los Angeles.
The name on her passport is Tammy Bruce. I don't know what she will write on the customs form under "occupation", but here's how she describes herself: an openly gay, pro-choice, gun-owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush progressive feminist. One hang of a contradiction in terms.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

29-Jun-2005

Over the years, National has tried them all: Silent majority, right-thinking people, Rob's Mob and now, Don Brash's "Mainstream New Zealand". A mainstream New Zealand where minority groups, such as gays, Maori, prostitutes and people who use prostitutes, do not belong.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

28-Jun-2005

National leader Don Brash found himself struggling to stay afloat yesterday as he tried to define who swam in the mainstream and who did not.
"Tackling the issues of mainstream New Zealand" was the slogan that dominated the party's annual conference at the weekend and peppered the speeches of all MPs.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald
Related Site - National Party

28-Jun-2005

How about pissing off some of the electorate just to please your core vote? National Party leader Dr Brash said he didn't regard a variety of minority group members to be in the "mainstream". (Part of the radio interview transcription)
Read the full story/Visit the site - It's good to be a guy

27-Jun-2005

PRESENTER: No, I just want to pick up on something else here. You talked about civil unions. Does that mean you do not regard gay people as mainstream New Zealanders?
BRASH: Well they’re clearly not, they’re a small minority of people, but let me be clear. I made it very clear in the debate on that issue that I thought this should be dealt with by referendum because it’s a big change in the civil institutions of society. I also said that in the referendum I would vote for it because I have no problem with same sex couples committing to live together faithfully as heterosexual couples do.
PRESENTER: You simply don’t regard gays as part of mainstream New Zealand?
BRASH: Well they are clearly, by definition, a small minority of New Zealanders...
Read the full story/Visit the site - Just Left - Jordan Carter's Blog

2-Jun-2005

Christian political party Destiny New Zealand Party wants to bring in tax credits for couples who reach five yearly milestones of marriage.
Leader Richard Lewis said the tax credits would be given to couples when they reached their 5th anniversary and every five years from then on.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald
Related Site - Destiny NZ

14-Apr-2005

Maverick Labour MP John Tamihere has signed up to host a three-hour talk-back radio show.
His show is planned to air at 10am on alternate Sundays on new national station Radio Live, programme director Mitch Harris confirmed today.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

15-Apr-2005

Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove became the fresh target yesterday for Opposition parties in Parliament continuing to exploit the John Tamihere debacle.
And they called on Mr Tamihere to apologise publicly, not just to the Labour caucus, for criticisms about colleagues, gays, unionists, women and the Holocaust.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

13-Apr-2005

In the mid-1990s West Auckland's Waipareira Trust was a touchstone Maori success story. Bland, well-groomed and overpaid public servants would come and be PRd in that strange assortment of buildings overlooking the carparks of Henderson.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

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