Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
At Red Alert, there is a blog post saying: Wilkinson wasn’t in the House today so Finlayson answered. I don’t know what the Chief Justice saw in him. He is [deleted after careful consideration - Clare] Now when will Labour learn about Google and the Internet. I would have through the Mussolini debacle was lesson enough, but [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Crown prosecutors will be the next target of a Government crackdown on how the justice system is run.A spokesman for Justice Minister Simon Power revealed last night that he and Attorney-General Chris Finlayson were writing the...
Not PC (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... exciting revelations about Simon Bridges liking Hot Milk ; that Craig Foss plays dress up ; that Chris Finlayson like Art ; and that Todd McLay looks like Boris Johnson . All this hat tip Whale Oil , since he’s the only one in the country likely to ever read the bloody thing, or want to. Oh, if you do visit even for a moment you can’t help but notice that little parliamentary...
Riddimjamaica (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... to write to the Big Day Out's organisers, along with Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Chris Finlayson, the first openly gay National Party MP. Peter Tetchell, a campaigner for OutRage!, was one of the two people who had written to Mr Finlayson today, and said he hoped the Big Day Out would cancel Beenie Man's performance. RNA
No Right Turn (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
What's Trevor Mallard's latest taunt across the House to National's Chris Finlayson? "Tinkerbell". As The Hand Mirror points out, this sort of homophobia and misogyny isn't cool. And it is appalling to see a senior member of a supposedly "progressive" party engaging in it. Particularly when as a teacher he should know the social cost of this sort of public homophobia....
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
(chris finlayson..and tony ryall..have not spent one cent of travel-trough-money.. whereas:..maurice williamson..?..and judith collins..? “..As of last night, two National ministers - Maurice Williamson and Judith Collins - were still refusing to respond to Herald queries about their travel bills over winter. Mr Williamson, Minister of Building and Construction, spent $13,414 on...
frogblog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
After yesterday’s woeful performance by Attorney-General Chris Finlayson on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Green MPs thought they would ask the Government more about New Zealand’s poor inequality ranking in the UNDP’s Human Development Report 2009. This time Metiria asked Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennet what her response to the...
TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
A chilly front of intrusive and unnecessary police-inspired laws are being run through parliament with the complicity of the big parties. They are statutes hostile to a free society, based on the presumption of guilt, and contrary to our own Bill of Rights... ...and yet the sheep just keep grazing, right next to the abattoir, oblivious... DNA swabs : At that time, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Never mind Peter Jackson's remake of The Dam Busters .The New Zealand director's report with Australian academic David Court on the New Zealand Film Commission is expected to deliver bombshells.Arts Minister Chris Finlayson...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... promise and the bill was given its first reading in February.At that time, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson issued a report saying the bill appeared to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act's provisions against unreasonable search and seizure.During the third reading debate Labour MPs said they were worried about the extent of the powers that were being given to the police and...
frogblog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... the question to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, but it was actually answered by Attorney General Chris Finlayson on behalf of the perpetually-absent Minister. The ‘Minister’ claimed he had not seen the report, and continued to give that answer to subsequent questions (you can read a transcript of the questions in frog’s earlier post ). However this doesn’t wash, since he and his...
frogblog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... his Government doing to improve New Zealand’s inequality ranking from that reported by the UNDP. Chris Finlayson’s answer on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs? No-one in the Government has read the report yet, despite the fact that it was published three weeks ago. Given it is the first UNDP report to bear Helen Clark’s signature as UNDP administrator, you might have thought...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
... 9.5/10 – Simon Power 9.0/10 – Steven Joyce 8.5/10 – Tony Ryall 8.0/10 – Judith Collins 7.5/10 – Chris Finlayson 7.0/10 – Bill English and Paula Bennett 6.5/10 – Nick Smith 6.0/10 – Gerry Brownlee, Murray McCully and Tim Groser 5.0/10 – Phil Heatley, Anne Tolley, Wayne Mapp, Nathan Guy 4.0/10 – Jonathan Coleman, Maurice Williamson and Georgina te Heuheu 3.0/10 – Kate Wilkinson, David...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The Press reports: The decision was surprising given that Attorney-General Chris Finlayson and Police Minister Judith Collins had signed a 2003 petition calling for a commission of inquiry, he said. As did many professors of law. Rich said the decision was “sadly predictable”. “It’s interesting we’re spending millions on a Supreme Court building but still...
g.blog (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
... frogblog and The Standard suggest there is a problem there), then I would hope Attorney-General Chris Finlayson will report, as is statutory duty, that it is in breach of the Bill of Rights Act. But, given that he is a senior National Party Minister, who knows whether he will follow the path of integrity, or Nick Smith’s path of lies, obfuscation, and duplicity. A challenge for Chris...
