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Offshore gas exploration permit 38602 , held by Todd Energy, was due to expire today, and I was looking forward to announcing its demise. Fi...

Temperature records are being broken everywhere , Europe is on fire , the Gulf Stream is about to collapse , so of course National reannounc...

Ghana has abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes : Ghana has become the 29th country in Africa to abolish the death penalty in a m...

Last month the Greens released their tax policy, pushing for a wealth tax to end poverty . Today, Te Pāti Māori followed suit, releasing an ...

A ballot for three Member's Bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (Provision of Breast ...

Today is a Member's Day, and after a long period of later stages, we should finally be seeing some first readings. First up is the secon...

Earlier in the month Lawyers for Climate Action won a historic victory, overturning labour's 2022 ETS settings decision , which had cras...

Newsroom reports on StatsNZ's latest estimate of greenhouse gas emissions , and the news is hopeful: gross emissions have dropped, and ...

"Justice Minister resigns after being charged over drunken car crash" was not what I expected when I heard the news this morning....

Spanish voters went to the polls yesterday in national elections. And it looks like everybody lost, with neither bloc winning a majority . ...

Writing in The Post , David Cormack contrasts the trivial nature of much recent political "journalism" with the substantive issues...

We've all seen the cartoon above, about the endless cycle of New Zealand climate change policy. But the Zero Carbon Act was supposed t...

Back in May, the government signed a $140 million deal with NZ Steel to halve its emissions by 2030 . Now, they've followed it up with a...

Last month, the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee reported back on the Inspector-General of Defence Bill making numerous changes...

This afternoon Parliament will debate the report of the (powerful) Privileges Committee on Education Minister Jan Tinetti's misleading t...

Last week, Labour chickenshitted out on a wealth tax , with Prime Minister (for now) Chris Hipkins ruling it out as long as he holds office ...

An old-style post-title for an old-style post! Che Tibby returns to blogging with The Apocrypha of Noah - which so far, seems to be looking...

Last December, Labour made the first in a series of terrible climate decisions, over-ruling Climate Change Minister James Shaw and the Clima...

Buried under yesterday's chickenshit announcement by Chris Hipkins that Labour won't support a wealth tax so long as he is leader is...

Last month, the Greens kicked off their election campaign, proposing a wealth tax on the ultra-rich . Its a good, sensible policy: the New Z...