No Right Turn

Newsroom has a story today about National's (fortunately failed) effort to disestablish the newly-created Inspector-General of Defence....

The unpopular coalition government is currently rushing to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act . The clause is Oranga Tamariki...

The New York Times reports that the International Criminal Court is about to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials, including Prime M...

In 1974, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in United States v. Nixon , finding that the President was not a King, but was subject to ...

What is it with the mining industry? Its not enough for them to pillage the earth - they apparently can't even be bothered getting resou...

Today, former Port of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson went on trial on health and safety charges for the death of one of his workers . The Herald ...

Submissions on National's corrupt Muldoonist fast-track law are due today ( have you submitted? ), and just hours before they close, Inf...

The annual inventory report of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions has been released, showing that gross emissions have dropped for ...

Today in our National-led authoritarian nightmare: Shane Jones thinks Ministers should be above the law : New Zealand First MP Shane Jones ...

We are in the middle of a climate crisis. Last year was (again) the hottest year on record . NOAA has just announced another global coral bl...

NewsHub had an article yesterday about progress on Aotearoa's largest solar farm , at "The Point" in the Mackenzie Country. 4...

When the National government came into office, it complained of a "war on landlords". It's response? Start a war on renters in...

A ballot for two Member's Bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Repeal of Good Friday and Easter Sunday as Restri...

That's the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights today: Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the ...

Today is a Member's day. First up is James Shaw's New Zealand Bill of Rights (Right to Sustainable Environment) Amendment Bill , whi...

Yesterday He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission released two key pieces of advice, on the 2036-40 emissions budget and the 2050 target. B...

One of the weird features of the Zero Carbon Act was its split-gas targets, which separated methane, produced overwhelmingly by farmers, fro...

The clean car discount was a real policy success in pushing electrification of transport. It worked so well that EV adoption was running fiv...

One of the fundamentals of the New Zealand government system is consultation. On a broad scale, policy proposals generally need to go throug...

Today is school strike 4 climate day. There will be protests around the country in support of climate action and a lower voting age, which ...