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14 Q&As for 2014: Labour Leadership Virtual Hustings Meeting
14 Questions for 2014 : Labour Leadership Online Public Meeting
Scoop is delighted to have been asked to coordinate the official "Virtual Hustings Meeting" for the 2013, inaugural, Labour Leadership election.
Starting Tuesday this week we have posted 14 questions with candidate's answers on both Scoop.co.nz and the Labour Party Caucus Blog "Red Alert". The questions were chosen from nearly 200 questions submitted by eligible voters in the race.
By following the links below the general voting public are encouraged to engage directly with the leadership hopefuls in an online discussion at Red Alert. More>>
- Alastair Thompson, Scoop Editor
ALSO:
• Environment : What are your views on a clean
green NZ?
• Poverty : How would you ensure no one needs
to live in poverty?
• TPPA : Will you make the TPPA process
transparent?
• Equal pay : What would you do about gender
pay discrimination?
• Peoples : How would bring Maori & Pakeha
into a multi-ethnic future?
• Justice : What is your view of the New
Zealand justice system?
• Disability Issues : Would you create a
Ministry for Disability?
• Voter turnout : How do we motivate more
people to vote?
• Economy : How can we convince voters
Labour’s economic policy will work?
• Older New Zealanders : How would you
advocate for older New Zealanders?
• Party Leadership : What Labour values drive
your work for New Zealand?
• Party Unity : How would you unite the party
as a whole?
• Experience : What have you learned from
failure & how would you apply it?
• Winning : Why are you the one to take on and
beat John
Key?
ENDS
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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