Victor Billot

Southern Hemisphere

Tag: Politics

Left of liberal

Must be that time of the year again. Speaking at Drinking Liberally Dunedin this Thursday 1 July.

Beyond the sea: New Zealand’s ports at risk?

The following article on New Zealand ports and maritime issues was originally published in Foreign Control Watchdog issue 123 (May 2010), the magazine of CAFCA, and is available online at their site. I thought I’d add it here as well.

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Broke, Anxious or Seriously flush

The following article appeared in the Otago Daily Times, on Wednesday 3 February 2010, in response to an article by Dr Mathew Zacharias entitled Patients’ rights trampled in drive for equality and ongoing talk about user pays models at the Dunedin Public Hospital.

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Drinking liberally

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An appearance this Tuesday 23 April 7pm at Velvet Underground, Dunedin for the Drinking Liberally series.

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That’s very generous of you . . . sir

A small mention here at Tumeke for my comments today about our Prime Minister who craves to see the warm and friendly hand of charity extended to the dispossessed.

John Key is a confused man. He wants a British “honours” system, an American “generosity” system and presumably a Burmese employment system to pay for it all.

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Paths are made by walking

The view advanced by Chris Trotter that there is no alternative for socialists in New Zealand but to support the Labour Party is both mistaken and destructive. It will cramp political debate, encourage the right wing, and lead to a further decay of progressive political aspirations. In an MMP environment, and at a time when global capitalism has been shaken to its core, the left should be advancing, not retreating.

Dunedin Election Blog 2008

My new election blog for 2008 is online. I’ll be posting on this for the duration of the campaign – see you there.

Stop the Stadium March, Dunedin



Campaign trail "08"

I have been selected to stand for the Alliance Party in the 2008 general election for the Dunedin North electorate.

More information as it comes to hand.  I haven’t decided yet to blog on my campaign on my old election blog or just keep it all here.

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A couple of observations on the state of the world

On the theme of things “eco”, George Monbiot sums up recent thoughts rather nicely here.

He also manages to pin down the blindingly obvious with this post on Unions and the Labour Party in the UK. Some parallels to be drawn with our free trade pushin’  Government?

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