Daily review 12/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 12th, 2024 - 89 comments

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National only wants to help tenants *

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Date published: 10:22 am, April 12th, 2024 - 48 comments

* get evicted more easily.

Open mike 12/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 12th, 2024 - 25 comments

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Daily review 11/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 11th, 2024 - 62 comments

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Open mike 11/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 11th, 2024 - 123 comments

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Daily review 10/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 10th, 2024 - 8 comments

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A sustainable environment should be a human right

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Date published: 9:18 am, April 10th, 2024 - 47 comments

James Shaw’s attempt to create a right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is expected to be voted down soon by Parliament. But the New Zealand Supreme Court as well as the European Court of Human Rights have shown a willingness to recognise a right to a sustainable environment that some politicians refuse to.

Open mike 10/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 10th, 2024 - 166 comments

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Daily review 09/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 9th, 2024 - 20 comments

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Open mike 09/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 9th, 2024 - 140 comments

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Daily review 08/04/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 8th, 2024 - 3 comments

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What if climate collapse comes much sooner than we expected?

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Date published: 6:07 am, April 8th, 2024 - 91 comments

“It is simply mind-boggling,” said Prof Michael Meredith, science leader at the British Antarctic Survey. “In sub-zero temperatures such a massive leap is tolerable but if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.”

Open mike 08/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 8th, 2024 - 57 comments

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Back on Track?

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Date published: 11:05 am, April 7th, 2024 - 71 comments

National campaigned on the promise of getting the country back on track. How is it going?

Open mike 07/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 7th, 2024 - 41 comments

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Israel’s latest atrocities

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Date published: 10:15 am, April 6th, 2024 - 60 comments

In the past week it has been disclosed that Israel’s Artificial Intelligence driven security system was responsible for the killing of seven international aid workers. And there are reports that Israel directed a missile attack on the Iraqi embassy in Syria.

Open mike 06/04/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, April 6th, 2024 - 20 comments

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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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