29 November, 2012

List of New Zealand Political parties whose websites have no Science, Research, or Technology policy


  • NZ First
  • ACT
  • Mana
  • Maori Party
They're the smaller parties, but even Peter Dunne has a policy for United Future. I'll be looking at the quality of said policy at some point, but at least it's there to measure.

And to be fair to NZ First, they do have a page with "coming soon" on it, and a spokesperson on it.

26 November, 2012

New Zealand Science Debate

I've been meaning to write up a list of questions to email to the New Zealand political parties. Here's a list I've adapted from the US Science Debate website. I would like some feedback on the choice of questions before I send it out.

So far the topics I'm planning to ask about are:


  1. Innovation and the Economy
  2. Climate Change
  3. GE
  4. Water
  5. Research
  6. Biosecurity
  7. Education
  8. Role of the CRIs, MBIE, and Callaghan Innovation in Science
  9. Energy
  10. Internet
  11. Ocean Health
  12. Science and Public Policy
  13. Scientific Integrity
  14. Environmental Impacts
  15. Public Health

If anyone has any suggestions about how to phrase some questions around these topics, if I should add some more in or take some out, or pretty much anything leave a comment below.