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26 Apr 2012
9:47pm

ACT on Campus President's Speech to the ACT Party AGM 2012

Young people are crucial to our party. They are crucial to New Zealand. They are adventurous, they are entrepreneurial and they are aspirational. They are open, progressive and benevolent. This party, more than any other, has the most potential to turn these young people’s aspirations into young people’s futures.

In the first part of my address, I’ll talk about fair tertiary policies. Secondly, and just as importantly, I'll talk about keeping young talent here in New Zealand.

5 Apr 2012
12:26pm

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MMP Review Submission

peteremcc

The MMP Review Submission deadline is today.

I'm not sure if ACT on Campus are making a submission, but here is my personal one:

1) Should the 5% threshold be kept or changed? Why? If you recommend change, what should it be and why?

I believe that the 5% threshold is fundamentally undemocratic and should be abolished entirely.

6 Oct 2011
5:11pm

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Audrey Young Rejects Coup Talk

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New Zealand Herald Political Editor Audrey Young said late last night that she was confident she would lead the New Zealand Herald political team into the election on November 26.

She was responding to questions from ACT on Campus put to her after talk that the APN board could move to replace her with Derek Cheng, a current Herald press gallery reporter.

She has fallen well short in recent Neilsen Research polls of her targeted readership figures and appalled some readers recently by airing her own views on liberalising heroin laws.

19 Sep 2011
3:13pm

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Conservative Party Incompetence

peteremcc

Depending on how you write a question in a poll, you can get any result you want. So if someone refuses to release the question asked in a poll, even if it's from a reputable polling company, then you (and the media) should probably just ignore it.

I've written about devious polls on this blog already, and Colin Craig, the new leader of the Conservative Party, was one of the culprits then:

5 Sep 2011
4:28pm

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Sink Or Swim For The OUSA: Moving On From The Era Of The Logan Edgars

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There is one certain question that will be addressed by the upcoming OUSA elections, and that is: who shall replace Logan Edgar? Edgar is a President who won office and then gave us the punchline to the joke that was his campaign of empty slogans and irrelevant promises. As if to put the messages I'm about to express to justice, media coverage and accounts of his actions lend to the impression that the seriousness that must come with the leadership of the OUSA is lost on him. For Edgar, it appears the association is nothing more than a dialysis machine to keep his fragile ego alive.

5 Apr 2012
12:26pm

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MMP Review Submission

peteremcc

The MMP Review Submission deadline is today.

I'm not sure if ACT on Campus are making a submission, but here is my personal one:

1) Should the 5% threshold be kept or changed? Why? If you recommend change, what should it be and why?

I believe that the 5% threshold is fundamentally undemocratic and should be abolished entirely.

15 Nov 2011
12:36pm

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Greens Are Nasty Not Nice

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The so called "nice" party have once again proven that just under the services they're actually nasty and dangerous:

"On Sunday night, about 700 National Party billboards across the country were altered by activists who fixed new slogans over the billboards."

6 Nov 2011
12:45pm

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NZ First Break Electoral Act Again

peteremcc

Last week Winston Peters announced he wasn't standing in an electorate, to focus on winning party votes.

Unfortunately, the New Zealand First constitution requires every candidate to stand in an electorate.

In fact, Rule 46b of their constitution specifically states: A List candidate must first be selected as an Electorate candidate.

Kiwiblog and Whale Oil picked up on this problem and when a journalist asked Winston Peters about their constitution he claimed it had been changed in 2008.

Everyone else seemed happy to leave it there, but I wasn't.

25 Oct 2011
6:21pm

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The State Of Journalism At TVNZ

peteremcc

Today was the release of the PREFU - the public presentation of the government's books before the election.

Today was also the first day of TVNZ's daily election liveblog:

http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/election-2011-october-25-4482481

So how did they go?

Number of updates about each party:

National - 7
Labour - 12
Greens - 5
ACT - 0
Maori - 1
Mana - 1
Alliance - 1

14 Oct 2011
12:44am

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OUSA Are Idiots

peteremcc

Yesterday OUSA amended passed amendments to their constitution brought about because of the passage of the Voluntary Student Membership bill.

This isn't surprising - most students' associations around the country have been doing the same thing to ensure they comply with the new Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Act.

But OUSA have tried to be tricky, and ended up just making themselves look like idiots. Complete and utter idiots.

One of OUSA's amendments is as follows:

26 Apr 2012
9:47pm

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ACT on Campus President's Speech to the ACT Party AGM 2012

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Young people are crucial to our party. They are crucial to New Zealand. They are adventurous, they are entrepreneurial and they are aspirational. They are open, progressive and benevolent. This party, more than any other, has the most potential to turn these young people’s aspirations into young people’s futures.

In the first part of my address, I’ll talk about fair tertiary policies. Secondly, and just as importantly, I'll talk about keeping young talent here in New Zealand.

5 Aug 2011
1:02pm

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Students Call On OUSA President To Resign

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Students are today calling on Logan Edgar to resign from his position as President of the Otago University Students' Association (OUSA).

Late last night Logan Edgar, in reference to the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill, commented on the Facebook wall of Sir Roger Douglas, saying:

18 Jul 2011
4:27pm

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Release Students From Compulsory Union Cage

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Joke candidate turned student politician Logan Edgar, Otago Univeristy Students' Association (OUSA) President, will lock himself in a cage overnight to protest ACT's Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill.

The Bill will prevent Mr Edgar and other student politicians around the country from forcing students to join their associations and pay hefty subscriptions every year.

9 May 2011
5:08pm

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Get Down With A Free Double Down

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Tomorrow, to celebrate the release of the KFC Double Down, ACT on Campus will be giving away FREE Double Downs in each of the main centres.

ACT on Campus representatives will visit a KFC store in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin at a random time, different in each city, wearing their bright yellow ACT on Campus t-shirts.

20 Jan 2011
7:19pm

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Counter-Protest To Support St Heliers Development

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ACT on Campus are taking to the streets in a counter-protest, occuring right now in St Heliers, to support property rights and to oppose the Environment Court's injunction against the new development on Turua Street.

"ACT on Campus support the property rights of all New Zealanders, including developers," says ACT on Campus President, Peter McCaffrey"

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