Written By: - Date published: 11:59 am, November 8th, 2025 - 12 comments
If you thought that your contempt for the current administration had peaked let me disappoint you. This week they have taken steps to undermine the Climate Change Commission and the ability of the public to influence future emission reduction plans.
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, October 31st, 2025 - 49 comments
The vast majority of Fonterra shareholders have agreed to sell all its consumer brands to Lactalis, and it’s an economic crime against New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 6:06 am, October 27th, 2025 - 17 comments
On this Labour Day, a massive shout out to all the workers in Southland, Otago and other areas affected by the storms last week. Paid and volunteer, obvious and those in the background doing support for the frontline workers.
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, October 25th, 2025 - 23 comments
National has announced it will be spending nearly three times as much on Roads of National Significance as it campaigned on and has justified dubious investment decisions by changing how benefits are calculated.
Written By: - Date published: 12:14 pm, October 13th, 2025 - 13 comments
In a move that further undermines the country’s response to the climate crisis the Government has halved the methane reduction goal and determined that farms will not pay a price for greenhouse gas emissions.
Written By: - Date published: 8:56 am, October 1st, 2025 - 29 comments
Christopher Luxon recently wrote to Chris Hipkins seeking a bipartisan approach to gas drilling but then immediately turned this into a farce by leaking the letter to the Herald.
Written By: - Date published: 10:53 am, September 26th, 2025 - 12 comments
Winston Peters has blamed the two most populous countries in the world for contributing to climate change, a problem that many in his party thinks does not exist.
Written By: - Date published: 5:11 pm, September 13th, 2025 - 23 comments
The greatest threat Russia poses to Europe is not that it marches west but that it turns its back and builds a brighter future to the east. We may be witnessing the emergence of a Eurasian World Order.
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, August 18th, 2025 - 23 comments
The Government is trying to spin that cancellation of the ferry contract will cost the country $144 million when the actual figure is at least $671 million.
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, August 11th, 2025 - 16 comments
How to make fundamental changes to the country’s energy systems to ensure that future supply is sustainable and democratically controlled/
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, August 6th, 2025 - 20 comments
The country’s four main power companies have signed an agreement to stockpile coal and to extend the life of the coal-fired Huntly power station.
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, August 2nd, 2025 - 49 comments
What are Labour’s intentions towards protecting communities and the environment?
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, July 22nd, 2025 - 9 comments
The Commerce Commission has dismissed Federated Farmers’ claim that banks offering lower interest rates to clients who meet greenhouse gas emission targets are engaging in cartel type behavior.
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 21st, 2025 - 43 comments
Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.
Written By: - Date published: 7:47 pm, July 20th, 2025 - 25 comments
Tasman, Top of the South Island patiently waits after National raided $6 billion infrastructure fund
Written By: - Date published: 1:23 pm, July 19th, 2025 - 11 comments
we don’t have to, but we probably should.
Written By: - Date published: 7:18 am, July 18th, 2025 - 12 comments
Again, we were woken up by a bunch of hoodrats drifting on the intersection by our house. Great clouds of smoke and lots of noise. As you do at three o clock in the morning, my brain started tying this together with recent articles about private helicopters in urban areas, and other forms of antisocial “Fuck You’s” to the rest of us.
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 am, July 15th, 2025 - 16 comments
Christopher Luxon has engaged in a classic example of bumper sticker politics by blaming Labour for excessive power prices, not the structure of the power sector. And he has completely ignored the imperitave action that climate change demands the country takes.
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, July 14th, 2025 - 57 comments
Nelson Tasman region is still in a civil emergency and our climate denying Prime Minister is signalling an end to future flood bail outs.
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, July 6th, 2025 - 41 comments
Immediately after blowing up the Rainbow Warrior the French agents went on a ski holiday in the South Island to celebrate. Such was the contempt they had for Kiwis and our police. How wrong they were.
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, July 1st, 2025 - 25 comments
National is rolling out comprehensive water corporatisation, across New Zealand. For those who don’t live in Auckland, Wellington, or other centres with commercialised water services already, this is coming to you fast. “Water Done Well” is the policy of this government to require all communities to decide on forming commercial water delivery entities, to run […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:31 am, June 30th, 2025 - 26 comments
What if we broke New Zealand’s grocery misery with our own grocery store?
Written By: - Date published: 11:17 am, June 27th, 2025 - Comments Off on Oceania: Journey to the Center and other Auckland events
A few things I will be heading to over the coming 5 days in Auckland. A documentary on climate change on pacific islands. Phil Goff on foreign affairs. And the Inaugural Keith Locke Memorial Debate. Moot is “China is a threat to regional peace”. I kind of got caught up in each of these for one reason or another…
Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, June 2nd, 2025 - 29 comments
I want to share a writer’s journey – of living and writing through the Genocide. Because my country provides support to Israel and the US, I feel compelled to support Palestine by doing the one thing I know best: writing.
Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, June 2nd, 2025 - 26 comments
As the world re-entangles and pushes our interdependence to the foreground, we need a new thesis on freedom.
Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, May 24th, 2025 - 11 comments
Nicola Willis’ Budget is bad for growth and a Big throwback unfit for NZ.
Written By: - Date published: 8:07 am, May 20th, 2025 - 48 comments
In a climate crisis world we should be treating farming as a national strategic asset.How would a wealth transfer tax affect that?
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 6 comments
Another science fund bites the dust in New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, May 12th, 2025 - 45 comments
New Zealand was once in a sustained Australasian partnership. Now, with New Zealand tracking further and further into policy extremes, Australia – and our children – are leaving New Zealand behind.
Written By: - Date published: 2:08 pm, May 8th, 2025 - 20 comments
David Parker’s Deputy Leader ‘s speech in 2014 at the Wellington Labour Party Conference was the best I ever heard from a Labour Leader. Vision matched values in intensity and scope. Parliament now loses one of its very best.
Written By: - Date published: 12:58 pm, April 27th, 2025 - 4 comments
It is time to reflect on what happened with the Atlas Network and the Treaty Principles Bill.
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