No Right Turn

After yesterday's news that Stuart Nash deliberately and knowingly breached the OIA to cover up his corrupt disclosure of Cabinet infor...

The United Nations has asked the International Court of Justice for a ruling on climate change obligations : The UN General Assembly has ad...

Air pollution kills, and dirty diesel vehicles are a major source of it. Cleaning them up has enormous social benefits in avoided deaths and...

On Tuesday night, former Forestry Minister Stuart Nash was sacked for corruption , after the Prime Minister discovered he had disclosed conf...

The science of climate change is clear: we need to stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible, and we cannot burn even a fraction of t...

Three weeks ago, Australia's Freedom of Information Commissioner - their equivalent of the Ombudsman - suddenly resigned, on the basis t...

Yesterday the government introduced the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill to the House. The bill is a response to Cyclone ...

So, after interfering with the police, and then interfering with immigration decisions, Stuart Nash has finally been sacked : Stuart Nash h...

In July 2022, the then-Minister for Public Services, Chris Hipkins, promised that he would reduce the number of secrecy clauses in new legis...

After almost two decades of racism, Australia is finally getting off its "stop the boats" bullshit. But don't worry, racists -...

Last year, the Education and Workforce Committee recommended that the government legislate for pay transparency to prevent employers from s...

In 1972, British soldiers tortured a false confession out of Liam Holden , resulting in him being given Britain's last death sentence. W...

On 19 November 2010 an explosion at the Pike River Mine killed 29 people. The explosion was caused by unsafe work practices; however the Nat...

Not that long ago, things were looking pretty good for climate change policy in Aotearoa. We finally had an ETS, and while it was full of po...

Yesterday the IPCC released the final part of its Sixth Assessment Report, warning us that we have very little time left in which to act to ...

RNZ has continued its look at the role of lobbyists by taking a closer look at the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Andrew Kirton . He u...

James Shaw gave the Green party's annual "state of the planet" address over the weekend, in which he expressed frustration wi...

RNZ this morning has the first story another investigative series by Guyon Espiner, this time into political lobbying. The first story focu...

Primary, secondary and kindergarten teachers are all on strike today , demanding higher pay and an end to systematic understaffing. While th...

The quarterly ETS auction was held today. In the past, these have seen collusion by big players to game the price and force a dump of extra ...