All of Q+A this morning will be a debate on the environment.
The way we care for our environment has emerged as a key election issue – especially the state of some of our polluted waterways. Q+A has an hour long environment debate with 7 candidates on Sunday. Which party wins your environment vote?
Scheduled to take part:
- David Parker (Labour Party) – Spokesperson for Environment, Water
- Scott Simpson (National Party) – Minister for the Environment
- James Shaw (Green Party) – Spokesperson for Climate Change
- Marama Fox (Maori Party)
- David Seymour (ACT Party)
- Damian Light (United Future Party)
- Winston Peters (NZ First Party) – Spokesperson for everything
Denis O’Rourke is the NZ First spokesperson for climate change and also for the Environment but has been shunted down to 13 on their party list. Peters has chosen to take part in a debate for a change.
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robertguyton
/ 10th September 2017Where is Nick Smith?
Pete George
/ 10th September 2017I don’t know. Do you? Does it matter?
This is a debate on the environment, so it seems appropriate for the Minister of the Environment to take part.
Where is Eugenie Sage? She’s the Green Spokesperson for the Environment.
robertguyton
/ 10th September 2017Scott Simpson is Associate only, so I’m not sure what you mean by, “This is a debate on the environment, so it seems appropriate for the Minister of the Environment to take part.”
James Shaw, Leader of The Greens, seems entirely the best person to represent the Party in a debate this close to the election. Do you think he doesn’t understand the issues?
Blazer
/ 10th September 2017where is Paula Bennett?She is Nationals Climate Change Minister ,despite the fact she says her knowledge of the subject is…ZERO!
Gezza
/ 10th September 2017Possibly following Judith Collins around, listening, incognito? 👵🏼🕶
Just in case … ?
Pete Kane
/ 10th September 2017Paula incognito. I was about to add oxymoron, but given comment of her earlier life, perhaps not.
Pete Kane
/ 10th September 2017And Winnie’s got his ‘mojo’ back.
Gezza
/ 10th September 2017Pete Kane
/ 10th September 2017Fantastic.
Gezza
/ 10th September 2017Thanks. I usually only hear that from girfriends. 👍🏼
Muddy’s pretty good there, too, I thort 😳
Pete Kane
/ 10th September 2017Fan since teen, 78 first became acquainted.
Gezza
/ 10th September 2017Same, but first heard him when I heard the Strolling Bones. Inspired them. My fave’s Hoochie Coochie Man.
Pete Kane
/ 10th September 2017Winston’s worst (only) campaign nightmare G.
Pete Kane
/ 10th September 2017Song 1.
Corky
/ 10th September 2017Of course it’s zero. Man made climate change is bs.
Corky
/ 10th September 2017”I don’t know. Do you? Does it matter?”
LoL.
Pete George
/ 10th September 2017sorethumb
/ 10th September 2017Need to check the meta narrative: “growth is good”.
Tourism is a big pie but only small pieces.
Marama Fox is completely out of touch – another faux Maori.
sorethumb
/ 10th September 2017The metanarrative of the Treaty as a foundation stone is a stone around our necks. The Treaty never addressed modern NZ (demographics industrial society). Yet it justifies an industry of parasites (lawyers and post-colonial post modernist academics). There is some validity but pretending that we have common ground is BS two positions are juxtaposed to each other. It is an interesting invention that Maori have unique “kaitiaki responsibilities” (exogenous in their conception) and therefore fit into the big picture etc – they wont spot a buck in their “ownership” of the foreshore and seabed..
sorethumb
/ 10th September 2017The Epsom Poninjay makes a good point hitting on the Greens for air travel. having said that flying for electoral work is excusable, however all the dears who appear on RNZ have been every whereeeee (don’t you know)!?
sorethumb
/ 10th September 2017The popinjay mentioned “xenophobia”. When those on the right talk xenophobia suspect Harcoursts, Bayley’s and the other blights on NZ society.
Zedd
/ 10th September 2017so now all the parties are fighting for ‘green credibility’, even those who support big polluters (natz). Mr Shaw tried to reclaim the issue.
btw; Damian Light (UF) was probably the most cool, calm & collected ?
robertguyton
/ 10th September 2017UF have no hope of being elected, so Light can afford to be relaxed. His soon-to-be-extinct Party have nothing to offer in a debate on the environment.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 10th September 2017With the possible exception of Ms Fox I doubt if any of them would know an environment if they fell over it.
robertguyton
/ 10th September 2017Given your belief that “an environment” is something you can fall over, like a cliff edge or a log, you’d be the last go-to person to comment about who knows what.