Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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It being Friday:
You may have noticed this animated google logo in honour of Martha Graham, here with the official music:
The animator behind it has also done other stuff, including this, which is also pretty darn good:
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Maori Language Act 1987 (sic)
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I'm sure it would have been politically advantageous for the First Labour Government to bray for blood in an election year, but they didn't.
I went to a public lecture covering what we might learn from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo.
While not the focus, it was pretty scathing about the whole thing.
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WHERE, WHEN AND HOW BUT DON'T FORGET IF
Hone Harawira's promise to resign and force a by-election early this week has hit a hitch. Yesterday he said he would let the folks "back home" decide the "the where, the when, the how". If he wants to come back as leader of the Mana Party, and get $50,000-plus extra funding, it must be registered before polling day, or he will run as an independent. He may want more time to get 500 members and register the party, but he has to trigger the by-election by May 26 – more than six months before the general election – or Parliament can choose not to hold it.
Thanks Stuff!
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It has happened twice before (1931 & 1941), why is the 2011 census any different?
I don't know what the law said in 1931 or 1941, but the Statistics Act 1975 is in absolutist terms. The Government *must* hold a census, or amend the law.
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Man ... even my summary seems long :-(
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I've just seen a facebook group in my newsfeed:
R.I.P Osama Bin Laden - World Hide And Go Seek Champion (2001 - 2011)
I'm still laughing,
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Morning Report AND The Press both had items this morning about how this would mean more money for Hone – I was dying to send them the link to this blog. Why can’t real journalists do this kind of analysis?
Five years of law school?
I can't blame journalists for not doing this analysis. As I note, this is not clear. It is clear that he would get money if the Mana Party is registered by the by-election. He may get money if it is not, although that would be putting an awful deal of power in the hands of a local returning officer.
If I was a journalist, I'd have found out what happened with Tariana Turia (i.e. whether the fact she stood for an unregistered party made a difference), and I'd have spoken to the Office of the Clerk to get confirmation (off the record if necessary): maybe they did.
p.s. why didn't you forward this to Morning Report? =) There's a reason I was up until 5am on Sunday Morning writing it: I wanted to get in on the ground floor so that the first people having the discussion would have the option of having the information available to them.
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Michael's right. The only way Dr Brash enters Parliament before the next election is beating Hone Harawira in the Te Tai Tokerau by-election.
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should the Electoral Act 1993 be modified to prevent the undemocratic prospect of an unelected person becoming leader of a parliamentary party?
No.
1. The Electoral Act doesn't recognise the existence of party leaders at all.
2. If you don't like him don't vote for him.Don Brash's being the Party Leader of ACT doesn't get him into Parliament, doesn't get him a salary, or ACT any funding. It's a name that means precisely nothing in any legal sense.
I anticipate that ACT will also get a Parliamentary leader some time in the next week. It seemed to work okay for Russel Norman.