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Parliament will be meeting tomorrow, despite level 4, after efforts to have a virtual sitting were thwarted by the National Party . The Māor...

Over the weekend, police threatened a man with arrest under Covid-19 lockdown powers for filming them making an arrest while on their govern...

Last month, the Labour government outraged Aotearoa by granting two new fossil fuel exploration permits in Taranaki . In a context where the...

For the past few months, I've been screaming about the government's ETS price settings: basicly, they set the price cap at which the...

Samoa's Supreme Court determined the last election petition today, resulting in HRPP MP Loau Keneti Sio retaining his seat . Four other ...

The Spinoff this morning has a piece by an anonymous public servant on the Official Information Act . It makes the valuable point that publ...

Biofuels are likely to be a key means of reducing our transport emissions in the short-to-medium term, allowing immediate reductions by subs...

In July, the US officially ended the occupation of Afghanistan, slinking away in the middle of the night and not even telling their Afghan ...

This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the first part of its Sixth Assessment Report , ringing the warning bell ev...

The Justice Committee has called for submissions on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill . Submissions can be made via the...

Troy Bowker is a racist. And as Newsroom shows this morning, he's been funding one of our most conservative and foot-dragging cabinet m...

What's the real cost of the Huntly power station? 4 million tons of carbon dioxide a year : Genesis Energy emitted more carbon dioxide ...

Aotearoa needs to rapidly decarbonise its electricity infrastructure and replace old fossil fuel generation with renewables. Aotearoa also n...

Last night there were blackouts across the country on the coldest night of the year , and there's a risk of more tonight. The immediate ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Sixth Assessment Report last night. And it says pretty much what you'd expec...

Farmers are New Zealand's biggest source of emissions, producing just under 40 million tons a year, mostly in the form of methane from l...

NZ Refining's shareholders are voting today on the future of the Marsden Point oil refinery, and whether to shut it down and shift thei...

Parliament debated the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill this afternoon, and voted to send it to select committee by a marg...

We've just had record floods on the West Coast, and freak wind events in Auckland. Greece and Turkey are on fire. And in what seems like...

A ballot for three member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: New Zealand Public Health and Disability (Restr...