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Climate: where we are heading
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, June 28th, 2023 - 35 comments
The United Nations University has released a sixteen minute film featuring world leading climate scientist and carbon budget specialist Professor Kevin Anderson talking about the utter catastrophe we are heading for if we don’t take radical action on climate now.
Don’t Stop
Written By: - Date published: 6:16 am, June 21st, 2023 - 20 comments
“Meanwhile, oil companies are enjoying record profits”
Greenpeace: Climate activist Rosemary Penwarden found guilty but remains undeterred
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, June 15th, 2023 - 17 comments
“We applaud Rosemary for standing up against big oil and gas.”
You can never have too many Teslas
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, June 14th, 2023 - 96 comments
Over recent periods National has run a very tightly focused campaign against state support for Tesla owners. But news that Christopher Luxon actively sought a Government supplied Tesla when he already owns one suggests that he thinks that the rules should be different for him.
How not to win votes and influence people
Written By: - Date published: 8:45 am, June 13th, 2023 - 172 comments
Christopher Luxon has gone onto the charm offensive by describing New Zealand as a negative, wet, whiny, inward looking country that has lost the plot.
Luxon, the idiot for whom ignorance is bliss
Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, June 12th, 2023 - 29 comments
Last night I watched Christopher Luxon in a interview with Jack Tame on Q&A from youtube. My takeaway from it was that I don’t want this fool anywhere near actual policy. He exhibited a blissful ignorance about downstream effects of genetic engineering, climate change, and productivity in our economy. Even where I agreed with him like on GE – I didn’t want this idiot implementing policy on it.
National picks a fight over GE
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, June 11th, 2023 - 19 comments
National continues to appease Federated Farmers and has just announced a policy of easing up of restrictions and safeguards on Genetic Engineering.
The Case for Restoring Regional Rail
Written By: - Date published: 1:49 am, June 6th, 2023 - 53 comments
How does regional rail fit into the biggest story on the planet?
Stop Defending Regional Rail
Written By: - Date published: 12:44 pm, June 5th, 2023 - 51 comments
Regional rail is a perpetual makework gig servicing the wrong economy and just needs to stop.
The real coalition of chaos
Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, May 23rd, 2023 - 22 comments
National has hatched on its attack line which we will hear about a lot over the next few months. But it may have a problem. Because the phrase “coalition of chaos” clearly applies to its leadership team.
Government announces project that will significantly reduce coal consumption
Written By: - Date published: 8:47 am, May 22nd, 2023 - 102 comments
The Government has done a deal with the owners of New Zealand Steel that will see the company replace its coal fired furnace with a renewable energy supplied electric arc furnace and will significantly reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Our heat battery in the oceans
Written By: - Date published: 10:04 am, May 19th, 2023 - 28 comments
Almost all of the extra heat that humans have captured by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere over the last few centuries has wound up warming the deep oceans. We’re now starting to feel the effects of that excess heat.
What Do The Maori Party Want Anyway?
Written By: - Date published: 8:05 am, May 12th, 2023 - 174 comments
Since they’re touted as 2023’s electoral ‘Kingmakers’, it’s time to understand what the Maori Party really want.
Fuel efficient cars and National’s tacky little culture war
Written By: - Date published: 8:40 am, May 3rd, 2023 - 36 comments
Recent days have provided a further example of why Aotearoa’s response to climate change has been compromised by politics.
Debate of the Day: should farms be regulated to centre climate action and nature?
Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, April 24th, 2023 - 44 comments
In election year, National’s farming regulations bonfire flies in the face of climate action and ecological restoration.
Extinction Rebellion: The Big One
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, April 17th, 2023 - 6 comments
XR are back. New strategy, same smart and bold action.
Go well Jacinda
Written By: - Date published: 12:06 pm, April 5th, 2023 - 91 comments
Today is Jacinda’s official last day on the job as a member of Parliament.
RMA reform will not solve the climate crisis
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, April 4th, 2023 - 25 comments
National has proposed RMA reform as the basis for accelerating the roll out of renewable energy generation. It appears that it has never met a problem for which the solution is either a tax cut or RMA reform.
Climate change – the final final warning
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, March 22nd, 2023 - 78 comments
The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change has synthesised reports on the climate crisis from hundreds of scientists over the past eight years and has boiled it down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.
The great policy bonfire
Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, March 14th, 2023 - 45 comments
Chris Hipkins continues with his shock and awe campaign and has torched a number of policies that National and Act were using to foment unrest.
The government needs to understand that climate mitigation and adaptation are twins
Written By: - Date published: 10:01 am, March 8th, 2023 - 39 comments
James Shaw and Greenpeace on why mitigation and adaptation need to be paired.
Triangulating climate change
Written By: - Date published: 8:12 am, March 7th, 2023 - 78 comments
Yesterday morning there were suggestions that the Government would properly address climate change by placing greater emphasis on public transport and walking and cycling. But by the afternoon the proposition had been watered down.
But How Do You Pay For It?
Written By: - Date published: 8:39 am, March 5th, 2023 - 27 comments
To pay for recent flood damage Grant Robertson has to decide on what proportion of this will be paid by new debt, what proportion by reallocation of expenditure, and what proportion by special tax levies. Is an Australian style levy under consideration?
How Activism Dies
Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, March 4th, 2023 - 40 comments
If anything progressive is to come out of this current government other than disaster recovery, really focused protest must prevail. It isn’t.
School Strike 4 Climate nationwide this Friday
Written By: - Date published: 12:42 pm, March 1st, 2023 - 32 comments
This climate crisis is a structural issue…. What it requires is a mass movement of citizens protesting for policy change and a dramatic redesign of our economy.
– Climate striker Aurora Garner-Randolph
The New Climate Denial: adaptation over mitigation
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, February 28th, 2023 - 45 comments
What if unmitigated climate change is more than we can adapt to?
What To Do About Climate Change
Written By: - Date published: 2:33 pm, February 25th, 2023 - Comments Off on What To Do About Climate Change
West Auckland’s activism, through such examples as the Arc in the Park sanctuary to the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area through to the protection of the environment provided by the South Titirangi Neighbourhood Network, provides examples of the sort of activism that may be needed if Aotearoa New Zealand is to deal properly with climate change mitigation.
Climate change – do we mitigate or do we adapt?
Written By: - Date published: 1:32 pm, February 25th, 2023 - 21 comments
The political debate about climate change is coming to an end as the North Island is battered by the third huge climate change induced storm in a month. The focus will not be on what to do? Do we still mitigate the effects by reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Or do we dig in and adapt?
This is really awkward
Written By: - Date published: 3:13 pm, February 21st, 2023 - 63 comments
National MP Maureen Pugh has questioned the existence of human induced climate change.
Windfall tax on bank super-profits needed to help fund repair
Written By: - Date published: 3:57 pm, February 20th, 2023 - 69 comments
The repair bill for the recent cyclones will be similar to the direct cost to government of the Canterbury earthquakes, in the $13 billion region. Banks are currently making obscene profits. The time is right to impose a one-off banking windfall tax. If a conservative Margaret Thatcher can do it, it is pretty hard to argue why a Labour government can’t.
Why right wing media is bad for democracy and the planet
Written By: - Date published: 12:21 pm, February 19th, 2023 - 37 comments
Newstalk ZB hosts have rightfully been criticised for minimising the danger posed by Cyclone Gabrielle. Which funnily is that they have been doing about climate change for the past few decades.
- Tuesday 11 March
The CTU is calling for an apology from Nicola Willis after her office made a false characterisation of CTU statements, which ultimately saw him blocked from future Treasury briefings. New data shows that Māori make up 83% of those charged under new gang laws. Financial incentives are being offered to ...3 weeks ago - Protected: Fight Back Together May Day 2025 Resources
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- When a 1-in-100 year flood washed through the Coorong, it made the vital microbiome of this lagoon h...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Keneally, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Microbiology, University of Adelaide Darcy Whittaker, CC BY You might know South Australia’s iconic Coorong from the famous Australian children’s book, Storm Boy, set around this coastal lagoon. This internationally important wetland is ...4 days ago - The Bureaucracy Is Still Bloated — This Ain’t No Fiscal Diet
“The Government needs to go full cold turkey and ditch the extra public servants. Trimming a little off the top won’t cut it. Nicola must show she’s serious in Budget 2025 and bring staffing at least back to 2017 levels." ...4 days ago - Defence spending: our research shows how Australia can stop buying weapons for the wars of the past
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University Department of Defence Australia’s defence spending is on the rise. The future defence budget has already been increased to 2.4% of GDP. There is pressure from the new Trump administration in ...4 days ago
- Do any non-drug treatments help back pain? Here’s what the evidence says
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rodrigo Rossi Nogueira Rizzo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia Monika Wisniewska/Shutterstock Jason, a 42-year-old father of two, has been battling back pain for weeks. Scrolling through his phone, he sees ad after ad promising relief: chiropractic alignments, acupuncture, back braces, ...4 days ago
- Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra de...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Martin-Hughes, Senior Research Fellow, Burnet Institute CI Photos/Shutterstock In January, the Trump administration ordered a broad pause on all US funding for foreign aid. Among other issues, this has significant effects on US funding for HIV. The United States has ...4 days ago
- Chief Ombudsman Releases Final Report
‘The Way I See It, Report by the Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier, December 2015 - March 2025, on leaving Office’ contains his personal thoughts on the jurisdiction and constitutional position of the Ombudsman in New Zealand. ...4 days ago
- ‘You can’t sign an mp3’: The music legends still topping the charts with CD sales
Alex Casey meets a curious outlier from last year’s local music charts. At the end of last year, Aotearoa’s 2024 listening habits were revealed and some clear trends were observed: the proliferation of country music, the domination of the “pop girlies”, and the unwavering popularity of L.A.B. But there were ...4 days ago - Ernie Abbott Memorial Lecture To Examine The History And Prospects Of Fair Pay Agreements
The annual Memorial Lecture is dedicated to the memory of Ernie and all those who have given their lives in service of working people and is focused on labour, trade union, and socialist history in Aotearoa. ...4 days ago
- New sentencing laws will drive NZ’s already high imprisonment rates – and budgets – even highe...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda Mussell, Senior Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury Paremoremo Maximum Security Prison near Auckland. Getty Images With the government’s Sentencing (Reform) Amendment Bill about to become law within days, New Zealand’s already high incarceration rate will almost certainly ...4 days ago
- Cuts Will Ramp Up Pressure On Corrections Staff
Corrections’ latest change proposal would result in a net reduction of 49 roles in its already stretched People and Capability, said Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons. ...4 days ago
- Australia may no longer be a ‘deputy sheriff’, but its reliance on the US has only grown deeper ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Andrews, Senior Manager, Policy & Engagement, Australian National University The year 2000 marked an inflection point for many Western countries, including Australia, in their outlook towards the world. The focus began to shift away from the peacekeeping interventions that had ...4 days ago
- Latest Privacy Breach At Health NZ Should Be A Wake-up Call To Reverse IT Cuts
Health NZ today confirmed an IT security incident in October 2024 that resulted in unauthorised access to some staff information from 2020 to 2024 at Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa districts. ...4 days ago
- Happy dogs make happy humans, and 9 other reasons science says dogs need to chew
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul McGreevy, Professor, School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney Chernika 888/Shutterstock In the wild, dogs spend a lot of their time chewing on bones, carcasses, sticks and kernels. For example, Australian dingoes can feed for up to 108 minutes in ...4 days ago
- Watching Adolescence made me glad I don’t have kids
It’s a response that has nothing to do with children and everything to do with adults. On Sunday, my family had a picnic. We went to Grey Lynn Park, lazed around in the autumn sun, and appreciated the corny, wholesome vibe of being together. My siblings and I are ...4 days ago
- Not everyone’s interactions with police the same – Green MP Tamatha Paul
Police patrols are a polarising issue, Tamatha Paul says, and how you feel about them depends on who you are and your previous interactions. ...4 days ago - Am I allowed to be scared of the police? An argument with myself
Green MP Tamatha Paul was widely criticised for suggesting not everyone wants to see more police on the beat. Is that really such a crazy idea? Lyric Waiwiri-Smith argues with Lyric Waiwiri-Smith. Comments made by Wellington Central MP Tamatha Paul that she had heard from “a lot” of her constituents ...4 days ago
- Echo Chamber: ‘Completely hopeless and utterly stupid’
Parliament is preoccupied with pointless points of order, and speaker Gerry Brownlee is absolutely done with it. Here’s what happened in question time yesterday: Chris Hipkins asked Chris Luxon a bunch of questions about something bad his government had done. Luxon got flustered because he struggles to give an answer ...4 days ago
- Community organisations get easier access to mental health support funding
The government is lowering the threshold for NGOs to access a share of the $10 million in its Mental Health Innovation Fund over two years. ...4 days ago
- Tiny robot tools powered by magnets could one day do brain surgery without cutting open the skull
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Changyan He, Lecturer, School of Engineering, University of Newcastle Photo supplied. Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumours. It’s invasive, risky, and it takes a long time for the patient to ...4 days ago
- Early exposure to air pollution could affect brain development and mental health later in life: new ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Hobbs, Associate Professor and Transforming Lives Fellow in Spatial Data Science and Planetary Health, Sheffield Hallam University Getty Images Exposure to air pollution in early life could have lasting effects on child development and mental health in adolescence, according to ...4 days ago
- 60-day scripts were supposed to save time and money. So why are we still waiting for cheaper medicin...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute adriaticfoto/Shutterstock Labor has committed A$690 million over four years to cut the maximum cost of medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to $25. The Coalition has matched the promise, which ...4 days ago
- Help Me Hera: My friend keeps putting me down ‘as a joke’
I’ve worked hard to cut negative self-talk out of my life. How do I stop my friend from picking up the slack? Want Hera’s help? Email your problem to helpme@thespinoff.co.nz Dear Hera, I’ve recently been getting annoyed with my friend because she will include me in her negative self-talk and ...4 days ago
- Every 3 years, we play the election date waiting game. Are fixed terms the solution?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jill Sheppard, Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University With another election campaign unofficially underway, voters may feel it hasn’t been long since they were last at the voting booth. Australia’s Constitution dictates: every House of ...4 days ago
- Another law and order pledge ticked off
Sentencing reform legislation has passed its final reading, writes Alice Neville in today’s extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Sentencing reform legislation passed its final reading The government’s sentencing reform legislation passed its final reading in parliament yesterday, marking “a significant milestone in this ...4 days ago
- Beneficiaries on money cards may not be able to pay rent
New 'money management' cards can't be used to cover accomodation, raising concerns about rising homelessness. ...4 days ago
- Government’s primary healthcare spend hasn’t increased in real terms since 2009
New figures show the primary healthcare portion of the total health budget hasn't increased since 2009. ...4 days ago
- Wastewater bird-strike risk unacceptable, Queenstown mayor told
Concerns about an increased likelihood of bird-strike at Queenstown Airport were raised directly with the district’s mayor and chief executive last week.At a media briefing yesterday, Queenstown’s council confirmed it was considering using emergency powers to discharge “highly treated wastewater” into the Shotover River, after the failure of its land ...4 days ago - Opposition cries foul over tougher sentencing laws
Coalition parties campaigned on a law and order crackdown and have now passed legislation they say will make the public feel safer. ...4 days ago
- Foreign Minister stays tight-lipped over high-level Washington DC meetings for now
The Foreign Minister is having one-on-one ministerial meetings ahead of making any public comment. ...4 days ago
- US security blunder prompts questions for NZ on intel sharing and Five Eyes
Analysis - Can New Zealand and other Five Eyes members trust the US any longer, after top Trump officials accidentally shared military plans on a messaging app that included a journalist? ...4 days ago
- Why a proposal to change the laws governing protest should worry us all
The IPCA’s call for new legislation to govern how police handle protest could have an unwelcome and serious impact on a fundamental right, argues Trevor Richards, an early leader of the anti-apartheid movement in Aotearoa. Come with me on a journey back to my childhood. The decade of the 1960s ...4 days ago
- Note to ministers: cutting services doesn’t make need go away
From emergency housing to employment dispute resolution, the government’s cutbacks are a misguided attempt to shrink our sense of what constitutes the public good – and it’s not an issue that solely affects the poor and the weak. When even employers are complaining about public service cuts in the National ...4 days ago
- A sad goodbye to a seat that changed governments
Comment: Ōhāriu’s long-serving former MP says new bigger electorates will make it more difficult for local members to advocate for their communities The post A sad goodbye to a seat that changed governments appeared first on Newsroom. ...4 days ago
- Voter enrolment powers stymied by postal requirements
Mail mandate a ‘sizeable cost pressure’ on the Electoral Commission’s work The post Voter enrolment powers stymied by postal requirements appeared first on Newsroom. ...4 days ago
- Daily crossword, Friday 28 March
The post Daily crossword, Friday 28 March appeared first on Newsroom. ...4 days ago
- Daily crossword, Thursday 27 March
The post Daily crossword, Thursday 27 March appeared first on Newsroom. ...4 days ago
- Book of the Week: Treaty, over simplified
The mass production of pamphlets espousing religious and political doctrines have always proselytised the ‘truth’ about whatever subject or mission their authors espouse. Roimata Smail’s booklet Understanding Tiriti lies squarely in this grand tradition with its sub-title, A handbook of basic facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. No need to ...4 days ago
- The grocery chain that’s won the country’s worst business brickbat
The Commerce Commission notes that complaints or ‘enquiries’ data on its own doesn’t paint a complete picture of compliance with the law The post The grocery chain that’s won the country’s worst business brickbat appeared first on Newsroom. ...4 days ago
- Likely loss of Ōhāriu electorate may have much wider effect
Comment: Larger electorates could make it more difficult for local MPs to advocate for the concerns of their communities The post Likely loss of Ōhāriu electorate may have much wider effect appeared first on Newsroom. ...4 days ago
- Why our pandemic readiness is a mixed bag
Softer vaccine mandates, no harsh lockdowns – but our borders would be closed sooner.That’s one scenario for the next big pandemic if the Government goes ahead with recommendations from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid 19 Lessons Learned.“We would only use those mandatory measures if we really needed to ...4 days ago
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