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As fossil fuel backed Atlas Network's motto goes, never waste a good crisis, whether real or perceived. And it is in this vein that NZ's Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced today that one of her government's top choices is to relax the rules around fuel…
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It's hard to be misunderstood, and perhaps there are no greater politicians that were unfairly maligned and attacked than Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern. Today I learned that during Covid, economic forecasts at the time predicted bond markets could dry up, business fail en masse…
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Resilience is the new buzzword in the cold face of a pending fuel crisis that threatens to derail the economy and life as we know it. Like well-trained neoliberal ideologues, the coalition Government wasn’t planning for an unmitigated disaster, like they had and still no…
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In absence of a concrete leadership plan from this government to address the impending oil supply crisis, this post is for us to simply note down what actions we are taking ourselves. When we act we decrease our anxiety. Japan has asked the Australian government…
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By Gordon Campbell, cross-posted from his Werewolf The Chinese Embassy is right. The recent joint statement by Australia and New Zealand condemning China’s actions in the South China Sea reads like a relic from a bygone colonial era. A weirdly misplaced concern, too. At a…
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Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon did a press conference this afternoon on the deepening oil crisis, RNZ replay below. The quote in the post title is Willis' first words.My initial impressions: The government has shifted position and is now directly talking about the need to…
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be fired over the imperilment of the New Zealand economy by his government’s laissez-faire response to the coming energy shock. The failure is compounded by a willingness to stand by Washington which will only help turn this into a long…
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National must be, or should be, ruing the day it decided to dismantle some of Labour's climate change policies. Not only is it a bad idea to sabotague attempts for Aotearoa to do our bit to address our emissions. I quite like living in a…
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Greenpeace's submission on the government's draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan. Gen Toop 26 August 2025Introduction Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on the Draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan. Overall, Greenpeace submits that the draft plan will not achieve energy resilience or reduce New…
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PSA press release via Scoop, Monday, 16 March 2026, 3:40 pm The PSA is urging Finance Minister Nicola Willis to walk the talk and deliver support for a key group of hard working New Zealanders struggling with rising fuel costs from the Iran war -…
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