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  • New Government crashes environment

    National, which has traditionally taken a responsible blue-green approach to environmental management, has traded away many of those principles in favour of a radical anti-environment policy programme. The politics of the campaign period are morphing into revenge politics of a Government wanting to undo anything that has happened during the past six years, irrespective of…

  • ‘An embarrassment’: NZ picks up ‘award’ for offshore oil ‘U-turn’

    New Zealand has picked up the less-than-coveted “fossil of the day” title at this year’s COP28 climate summit. The “award” is given each day at the conference to a country deemed to be “doing the most to achieve the least” or “doing their best to be the worst” in terms of the progress in the climate negotiations…

  • Gordon Campbell on the government’s smokefree laws debacle

    The most charitable explanation for National’s behaviour over the smokefree legislation is that they have dutifully fulfilled the wishes of the Big Tobacco lobby and then cast around – incompetently, as it turns out – for excuses that might sell this health policy U-turn to the public. The less charitable view is that the government…

  • Christopher Luxon tells team to fact-check claims after tobacco outlet mistake

    “Our team meant to say one outlet… in a town across Northland but we got it wrong. What I’ve said is look, we got that wrong. We’ve spoken to our team about making sure that we are fact-checking all of our information before we go off with statements and actually are they… supported.” https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/503865/christopher-luxon-tells-team-to-fact-check-claims-after-tobacco-outlet-mistake Dear…

  • A culture war? Te ao Māori is ready

    If the new government and its supporters think winning an election is enough, they haven’t watched politics for the last few decades. Winning an election is the price one pays to play. Maintaining the electorate’s trust, confidence, and support is entirely different and discomforting. Complexity and inexplicability increase, and intractability and paradox play into every…