1. Who are you and what do you want?

I’m Tane Wood­ley, Green party can­did­ate for Ohariu. I want a pint of chocol­ate port­er. Also, a fairer soci­ety, a clean­er envir­on­ment and a smarter eco­nomy.

  1. What makes you dif­fer­ent?

I’m a human, that makes me dif­fer­ent to every­one. I am a sol­dier in the Greens, so I am fairly rare; green on the inside and green on the out­side.

  1. What do you love or hate most about Wel­ling­ton

I love Wel­ling­ton on a good day, it really is as good as advert­ised, pos­sibly bet­ter. I hate the spring winds that kill my plum blos­soms and tomato plants.

  1. What are you going to do about rent­al prop­er­ties and the state they’re in? “ – Amy, Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral (via @Political_Cuts)

Gain votes to get Green MPs to help change the gov­ern­ment and imple­ment our WOF policy for rent­als, more home insu­la­tion and great­er secur­ity of ten­ancy for ten­ants.

  1. “If you could re-ima­gine the eco­nomy what would it look like?” – Emma, Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral (via @Political_Cuts)

More research and devel­op­ment, more man­u­fac­tur­ing to add value to products, clean­er envir­on­ment to make “100% Pure” a real thing and mar­ket­ing advant­age, redu­cing emis­sions and rising wages.

  1. “How would you improve work­ers’ rights in the elect­or­ate and ensure that young people enter into secure, long-term con­tracts?” – Brit­tany, Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral (via @Political_Cuts)

Gain votes to get Green MPs to help change the gov­ern­ment and imple­ment our policies to ditch the 90 day fire-at-will, raise min­im­um wage, intro­duce com­puls­ory redund­ancy pay­ments and more.

  1. “What are you going to do to make NZ more egal­it­ari­an?” – Mike, Ron­go­tai (via @Political_Cuts)

We have a wealth gap after 30 years of neo­lib­er­al­ism. More tax­a­tion on the wealthy leaves them still wealthy, but gives every­one else more oppor­tun­ity to par­ti­cip­ate mean­ing­fully in soci­ety.

  1. “What are the key things you will do to make things bet­ter for vul­ner­able chil­dren?” – Alis­on, Ron­go­tai (via @Political_Cuts)

Gain votes to get.… ser­i­ously, I’m not being flip­pant, but we have a lot of good, sol­id policies that will help vul­ner­able chil­dren. Win­ning votes will make this hap­pen.

  1. How do you plan to keep premi­er artists and busi­nesses from flee­ing the Cap­it­al? – ‏@OrchestraWLG

Green invest­ment in research and devel­op­ment, in ICT and in renew­able energy will help busi­nesses to devel­op new products and ser­vices to sell, also to retain staff and grow.

10. What do you wish your 17 year old self knew about fem­in­ism? @zenpeacekeeper

That fem­in­ism is a more real and val­id thing than I gave it cred­it for. That ‘equal pay for women’ was a good start, but it was only a start.

11. “What would you do to fur­ther improve the electoral/Parliamentary sys­tem in NZ, and to encour­age par­ti­cip­a­tion? – Sam, Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral (via @Political_Cuts)

I would imple­ment single-trans­fer­able vot­ing for elect­or­ate votes, so we have real con­tests for elect­or­ates. To encour­age par­ti­cip­a­tion, I’d increase resources for the Elect­or­al Com­mis­sion to bet­ter edu­cate and mar­ket.

12. Will you sup­port a full enquiry into #Dir­ty­Po­lit­ics? Will they prac­tice clean polit­ics for  them­selves and their parties? – Bevan­M­c­Cabe

Not an inquiry, but a Roy­al Com­mis­sion is needed, to fully invest­ig­ate and to ensure the gov­ern­ment of the day does­n’t inter­fere.  Will I sup­port this?  Hell yeah!

13. What’s your per­son­al his­tory of liv­ing in Wel­ling­ton?

Grew up in the Hutt, bloody won­der­ful place. Left for the Army at 18, pos­ted to Trentham from 1996–8, then lived in Miramar and John­son­ville since 2003.

14. What policy of your party do you think will have the most impact on Wel­ling­ton?

Our cli­mate change policy, and sub­sequent emis­sion reduc­tion. Because worsen­ing weath­er and sea level rise will dev­ast­ate Wel­ling­ton. Emis­sion reduc­tions in NZ, com­bined with inter­na­tion­al efforts, will greatly bene­fit Wel­ling­ton.

15. Do you genu­inely believe you have a chance at win­ning the seat you’re con­test­ing, or is this more of a party cam­paign?

Most def­in­itely a party cam­paign.  As an MMP party, the Greens focus on the party vote, and the elect­or­ate vote is not some­thing we chase. So please, party vote Green…