No Right Turn

One of the core ideas underlying the Zero Carbon Act is the idea of policy durability: that in order to be effective, climate change policy...

I've spent the afternoon crafting a brief submission to Parliament on the International Treaty Examination of The War Crimes Amendments ...

New Zealand is currently in the process of enacting legislation to set us on a pathway to carbon neutrality (except for cows) by 2050. Meanw...

The final punishment of Julian Assange reminds journalists their job is to uncover what the state keeps hidden We fought for liberty, freed...

How bad is the threat of climate change? Existential risk to civilisation bad : A new climate report co-authored by a former fossil fuel ex...

Yesterday the Australian government raided a journalist for revealing its plans to spy on Australian citizens . Today, they're raiding t...

How are people reducing their ecological impact to deal with climate change? In Sweden, they're giving up flying : The number of Swedes...

Last month, when the government released its Zero Carbon Bill , I highlighted how it contained an odious expansion of secrecy which throw a...

Last year, Australian journalist Annika Smethurst broke the news that the government was plotting to allow the Australian Signals Directorat...

In 2017, journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey released the documentary No Stone Unturned . The documentary investigated the 1994 Lo...

NeoLiberal austerity is a cruel policy which robs the state of its ability to help people. In the UK, it is also mass-murder : More than 13...

The government's Zero Carbon Bill , which would establish a framework to drive New Zealand towards net-zero emissions of everything but ...

Aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions. But as Stuff points out, jet fuel is exempt from taxes : [A]lt...

Something nasty was hidden in the details of yesterday's budget: the government will spend millions on stopping non-existent refugee boa...

New Hampshire has abolished the death penalty : New Hampshire, which hasn’t executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death ro...

The government has formally released its budget today, highlighted as being all about wellbeing. There's some valuable initiatives in th...

Twelve Catalan politicians are currently on trial in Madrid on charges of "sedition" and "rebellion" over Catalonia...

When the US invades and destroys a country, they call it "bringing freedom". So its probably natural that they'd start referri...

So, it turns out that the Budget "hack" was performed using that nefarious, illegal hacking technique called "using the searc...

Writing in The Spinoff , Danyl Mclauchlan argues that Treasury should tell us what actually happened . He's right. Budget data is suppos...