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Farmers are outraged over approval being granted to Dryland Carbon - a dedicated New Zealand offsetting firm - to buy 1065 hectares of farml...

Last night the government introduced its latest proposals for the Emissions Trading Scheme . While the Zero Carbon Act has established a pro...

Back in May, jailed Catalan politician Oriol Junqueras ran in the European parliamentary elections as head of the Ahora Repúblicas . AR won...

The US House of representatives has just voted to impeach Donald Trump , making him only the third US president to earn that dubiou distinct...

The government released its Fourth Biennial Report under the UNFCCC today, setting out our emissions reduction targets, policies, and emi...

The Climate Change Commission is going to be a key body in determining future climate change policy. Under the Zero Carbon Act, it will effe...

Last year the government gave us the biggest ever increase in the minimum wage , from $15.50 to $17.70 an hour. This year, they're doing...

What is Archives New Zealand scared of? We're not allowed to know. All government agencies should be maintaining risk registers of thr...

Today the Environmental Protection Authority granted consent to Austrian oil-giant OMV to drill for oil and gas in the Great South Basin . I...

Another day, another secrecy clause from this secretive government. This time its in the seemingly boring looking Financial Market Infrastru...

The Human Rights Commission has published a paper today on Kōrero Whakamauāhara: Hate Speech - An overview of the current legal framework . ...

The government gun buyback ends this week. One problem with the buyback is that, thanks to our previously lax gun laws, the police have no i...

There is another election the world should be paying attention to this week – in Algeria Sabra and Chatila taught me all massacres become ...

For the past two weeks delegates were meeting at the UN climate change talks in Madrid. The meeting finally ended , having achieved... nothi...

UKanians went to the polls yesterday in early elections aimed at resolving the Brexit impasse. And they certainly have, delivering a huge m...

Introducing legislation which shits on the public's right to know seems to have become a daily occurrence for this government. Today...

The University of Waikato and New Zealand Law Foundation have released a report today on the law around encryption in New Zealand . There...

A ballot for two Member's Bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Insurance (Prompt Settlement of Claims for Uninha...

Earlier in the month, Bougainvilleans went to the polls in a landmark referendum to decide on whether they would remain part of Papua New G...

Back in 2015, then Ombudsman Beverley Wakem conducted a review of the OIA, Not a game of hide and seek . The "review" was a whitew...