No Right Turn

Back in October 2022, Restore Passenger Rail hung banners across roads in Wellington to protest against the then-Labour government's wea...

Like everyone else (everyone who wasn't there, anyway), I've spent the morning watching the hikoi march on Parliament. The pictures ...

The National Party has been promising Dunedin - and the lower South Island - a new hospital since 2008. Despite those promises, the Key gove...

I've been watching the reports of the Māori-led protests all around the country this morning, seeing huge crowds not just in Auckland an...

School kids around the country are going on strike today to demand climate action (and the vote!) So naturally, Judith Collins has taken th...

Back in September, the Wellington City Council effectively killed the School Strike for Climate march by demanding they pay an unaffordable ...

In the face of a rising tide of climate protest, governments are cracking down. In the UK, the only-partly-elected government has effectivle...

Farmers are protesting today, invading cities with tractors and utes in protest against water and climate change policy. The core message of...

School Strike 4 Climate has announced another climate strike for April 9th, and invited everyone to join them in standing up against climat...

School Strike 4 Climate is holding a "100 Days 4 Action" rally outside Parliament on the 26th : The Youth of NZ will be standing ...

Students will be striking for the climate again on Friday, September 4 : Students in Wellington are gearing up to strike from school this S...

Like everyone else, I've spent too much of the weekend watching the protests in America, and the increasingly brutal response to them. T...

Yesterday I went down to Wellington to participate in the Extinction Rebellion protest. Its part of the latest global wave of XR actions, w...

In the wake of last Friday's climate strike, Peter McKenzie had an article in The Spinoff about protest strategies. The school strike m...

On Friday, I joined 170,000 other New Zealanders and struck for the climate. Palmerston North's protest was an uplifting experience, w...

Tomorrow is the NZ leg of the global climate strike . Thousands of school students will be walking out of school to demand government action...

[With apologies to Murray Ball . Again] This Friday, thousands of school students all over New Zealand will be striking for government ac...

Today is the first day of the global climate strike . Led by schoolkids, people all around the world are going to protest to demand action o...

Last night the police dramatically incresed their numbers at Ihumātao , shoving over protestors and threatening them with arrest. Despite po...

Two weeks ago, protestors from Extinction Rebellion seized four sites in London, causing major traffic disruption. They held those sites for...