No Right Turn

On Monday, Samoa's Supreme Court attempted to end the country's ongoing constitutional crisis, ordering parliament to sit within sev...

Today is a Member's Day, though it looks to be a boring one again. First up is the third reading of Anahila Kanongata’a-Suisuiki's D...

Two months ago the International Energy Agency sent a clear message: if we want to have even a 50% chance of avoiding dangerous levels of cl...

RNZ reports on some casual police brutality : A police officer used excessive force when he put an intoxicated woman in a headlock and pul...

Three months ago Samoa had an election , in which the people voted out the incumbent Human Rights Protection Party and voted in the oppositi...

Nitrous Oxide is a potent greenhouse gas, 265 times worse per ton than carbon dioxide. Its also long-lived, with a half-life of 121 years in...

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) has released a report today on the SIS's use of closed circuit television . Th...

A couple of weeks ago I did a post on the economics of killing Huntly , essentially about how the government's internal carbon price of ...

Today the government released its proposals to criminalise hate speech . There's a full discussion document here , but the key change is...

On Tuesday, RNZ published a major story about the police killing of Shargin Stephens , which suggested that the police had engaged in a sus...

If we are to avoid dangerous levels of climate change and making huge chunks of the Earth uninhabitable , we need to end fossil fuel use as ...

The Emissions Trading Scheme is one of the government's key tools for driving reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. By putting a price ...

The Herald last night revealed that a National MP appears to be a thief : A National Party MP faced allegations of inappropriate spending ...

Four years ago, the Spanish government jailed nine Catalan leaders for the "crime" of advocating peacefully for independence. Now...

We live in a time of historic ecological crisis, with the Earth on the verge of dangerous levels of anthropogenic climate change, threatenin...

The government has introduced a new Crown Minerals (Decommissioning and Other Matters) Amendment Bill . The bill is one of the products of t...

Today the Speaker referred the High Court judgement in Staples v Freeman to the Privileges Committee. Its not surprising. The court in its ...

RNZ has a major story this morning about the police killing of Shargin Stephens in Rotorua in 2016. The "Independent" Police Cond...

RocketLab is a cool company. Its right there in the title: "rocket". As someone who loves space exploration and the knowledge it b...

The Official Information Act is our core transparency legislation. But its only covers central government. Local authorities are covered by ...