‘m possibly breaking the law by posting this picture, while there’s still half an hour to go until the polls close, but I think I’m allowed to as long as I don’t include the name of the candidate or say the words “party vote…” in conjunction with it (so clean out your brains of the…
oday marks 121 years since women were granted the right to vote in New Zealand – the first country to attain universal suffrage. To mark the day, the union hosted a women’s breakfast, and invited Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel to talk to us. It was pretty informal – although she started off with a prepared…
y blog is no Whaleoil, but apparently it still gets the attention of the politicians 🙂 – after I mentioned the other day about James Dann asking if I’d host a sign supporting his candidacy, James himself left a comment on the post. I’m impressed – that sort of thing is an excellent example of…
I said yes. My fence is getting ever-more political. At least I’m not as bad as the house I saw down on Riccarton Road the other day that had signs for five different (and wildly opposed) political parties on its fence. I imagine a family that have really intense debates around the dinner table… But…
lection day is looming, and the campaigning is hotting up. I had five pieces of mail in my letterbox when I got home this evening, and they’re all from political parties. Most went straight in the recycling bin as junk mail, but one I’m considering – a letter from James Dann, the local Labour candidate,…
uckily, the rain stopped during the night, and it turned into a lovely day today. Which I was very glad to see, because I had a lot of walking to do today, seeing as I’d promised to deliver those flyers for the Greens, and today was my last chance to do so (the election is…
ou know how I keep saying I’m not going to volunteer for anything else, and that I’ve got way too much going on in my life already and can’t add anything more? Yeah, I totally fail at that. I can’t help it – people ask me to help out with things and I say yes…
olitics has invaded the CEISMIC office – we have a candidate in our midst. Well, sort of. Our team member Lucy-Jane flats with Ben Uffindell, the creator of The Civilian, a satirical website along the lines of The Onion. He recently announced he was running for parliament, founding The Civilian Party, a joke party (though…
ne of my colleagues is part of Generation Zero, an organisation that’s putting the lie to the idea that young people aren’t interested in politics any more. With the elections coming up she’s been getting involved in a lot of the local campaigning, and she mentioned the other day that the Greens were looking for…
ig excitement at work today was a visit from the Mayor. She’d been invited by one of our directors to learn more about the archive and what we’re doing, especially as we’ve been working with the City Council on a few projects. Of course, as soon as senior management heard she was going to be…