Daily review 05/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 5th, 2024 - 148 comments

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Why the Climate Strike matters (in case we are still thinking the crisis isn’t urgent)

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Date published: 9:54 am, April 5th, 2024 - 7 comments

All those climate scientists talking about temperature recently? This is what it means for us, right here, right now, and for the rest of our lives

Strike!

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Date published: 9:12 am, April 5th, 2024 - 30 comments

Please choose life today and support the strike in any way you can: attend in person, share information on social media, talk to people you know today about why it matters.

The Government thinks that Local Government should determine what works best for them*

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Date published: 9:07 am, April 5th, 2024 - 22 comments

* unless they want to set up Maori wards.

Open mike 05/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 5th, 2024 - 54 comments

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Daily review 04/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 4th, 2024 - 40 comments

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Forest and Bird: on the Fast Track Approvals Bill and how to make a submission

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Date published: 12:00 pm, April 4th, 2024 - 2 comments

“this is going to take all of us using our voice for nature, in all the places we are, to make it clear that we’re not against regulation, we actually quite like it, but we want regulation that is isn’t unbridled and puts power in the hands of Ministers in a way that New Zealand has never seen before.” – Nicola Toki CE of Forest and Bird

Open mike 04/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 4th, 2024 - 18 comments

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Daily review 03/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 3rd, 2024 - 16 comments

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Open mike 03/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 3rd, 2024 - 39 comments

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Daily review 02/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 2nd, 2024 - 32 comments

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Greenpeace: Luxon bulldozes on in war on nature with 90-day ‘hit list’

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Date published: 3:17 pm, April 2nd, 2024 - 5 comments

Greenpeace is calling the Government’s new policy priority list “the next onslaught in the war on nature” following Christopher Luxon’s announcement this morning.

The future of UK Labour and what it means for Aotearoa

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Date published: 10:09 am, April 2nd, 2024 - 55 comments

It appears almost inevitable that Keir Starmer will be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. But his taking the party to the right and an active drive to rid the party of left wingers raises the spectre that his Goverment would be a pale immitation of its predecessors.

Open mike 02/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 2nd, 2024 - 30 comments

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Guest Post – I was wrong about rainbows

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Date published: 11:41 am, April 1st, 2024 - 13 comments

Brian Tamaki, recent victim of self/God?-inflicted burns. Don't be like Brian.

Guest post by Brian Tamaki where he shares his change of thinking about rainbows.

A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?

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Date published: 10:13 am, April 1st, 2024 - 26 comments

Veteran climate activist Cindy Baxter writes about the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on her home town and the challenges of resiliency planning going forward.

Open mike 01/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 1st, 2024 - 186 comments

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Open mike 31/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 31st, 2024 - 10 comments

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Open mike 30/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 30th, 2024 - 32 comments

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The Culture War Coalition

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Date published: 10:57 am, March 29th, 2024 - 53 comments

We have just had yet another week of the Government manufacturing culture wars and picking fights while ignoring the big issues. Like dealing with climate change, child poverty and homelessness.

Open mike 29/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 29th, 2024 - 48 comments

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Daily review 28/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 28th, 2024 - 16 comments

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Open mike 28/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 28th, 2024 - 95 comments

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Daily review 27/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 27th, 2024 - 3 comments

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NZ Initiative – tax cuts are silly at present. I have to agree.

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Date published: 11:49 am, March 27th, 2024 - 41 comments

I don’t agree with people from New Zealand Initiative often. Mostly I just growl. But Oliver Hartwich who is the Initiative’s Executive Director wrote a article in The Australian “Christopher Luxon’s challenge for NZ economy: fiscal discipline or tax cuts”. Hard to find anyone aware of the current recession who could disagree outside of a small political minority in the National caucus.

CANA: Shane Jones, Chris Bishop, and Simeon Brown want the power to authorise mines and motorways on behalf of their mates with the click of a pen. Here’s how to fight back.

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Date published: 6:05 am, March 27th, 2024 - 29 comments

In reality, the Government knows that New Zealanders will be even more outraged if they see the list of environment- and climate-wrecking projects that these Ministers and their donor & industry mates have cooked up.

Open mike 27/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 27th, 2024 - 44 comments

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Daily review 26/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 26th, 2024 - 5 comments

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Open mike 26/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 26th, 2024 - 69 comments

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Daily review 25/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 25th, 2024 - 58 comments

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Open mike 25/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 25th, 2024 - 15 comments

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