No Right Turn

Earlier in the week, The Guardian reported that England's monarch had been secretly having laws amended to carve out exemptions for her...

The government has introduced a bill to outlaw homophobic conversion "therapy" : Practices intended to change or suppress someone...

Newsroom has a good piece this morning about the government's consultation on industrial free allocations, revealing that Fletcher Buil...

A little over a year ago, Rio Tinto was pleading povery, claiming its Tiwai Point aluminium smelter was unprofitable, and threatening to clo...

Another day, another story arguing that climate change is Just Too Hard for farmers, and that they should be given more time to wait for a m...

The Independent Police Conduct authority has found another case where police used excessive force in making an arrest : A police officer br...

Why aren't politicians interested in actually solving the housing crisis? Because virtually the entire political class is making massive...

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

RNZ this morning has a piece asking Can NZ really meet its methane emissions targets? . Posing it as a question like this frames it as diff...

Siberia is burning. China is flooding. Westport flooded last weekend. And against this backdrop of climate breakdown, the Southland District...

Back in May, Amnesty International exposed New Zealand's repuslive system of refugee detention , and the ongoing human rights abuses it ...

New Zealand wants to move to more renewable electricity. But there's a barrier: the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. It sucks up 13% of ou...

(Narrator voice: Yes, yes I did. See correction at the bottom) Another election petition was finalised in Samoa today, seeing the first fi...

The "rebate" half of the government's feebate scheme to lower transport emissions came into force three weeks ago. And it look...

Over the weekend Westport was hit by devastating floods. Half the town had to be evacuated, 89 homes (so far) are uninhabitable , and anothe...

When New Zealand was trying to implement carbon pricing back in the early 2000s, polluters whined about "leakage", either threaten...

One of the slogans of Friday's ugly farmer protests was "no farms, no food". But the truth is that most of what farmers grow i...

Over the weekend devastating floods hit the South Island . Half the population of Westport were forced from their homes, and it looks like h...

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

Last month, Newsroom reported on the government's slow progress on reviewing its proactive release policy . The story quoted Public Ser...