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Greenpeace Welcomes Action On Dairy Emissions In Greens’ Alternative Emissions Reduction Plan
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 6:19 pm | Greenpeace
"At a time when the Luxon-led government is caving to polluting industry lobbyists and undermining climate action across all fronts, it is refreshing to see an alternative pathway," says Greenpeace spokesperson Amanda Larsson. More >>
'Forged In Fire': Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick On The Greens' Challenging Year
Saturday, 7 December 2024, 7:19 pm | RNZ
One MP was arrested, another passed away, and a third was diagnosed with cancer - but through it all, "we've really stuck by our values", co-leader says. More >>
'Unacceptable': Children's Minister Not Told About Second Boot Camp Youth Absconder
Saturday, 7 December 2024, 7:11 pm | RNZ
Two teenagers on the run from the coalition's boot camp programme is not a reason to end it, the Children's Minister says. More >>
Cuts To Humanities And Social Sciences Research Will Impact Māori Most
Friday, 6 December 2024, 5:39 pm | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga
Humanities and social sciences are foundational to advancing and nurturing the next generation of Māori scholars. Without this funding avenue, the future for them looks pretty grim. More >>
New Police Commissioner Richard Chambers tight-lipped on frontline risk of firearms reform
Friday, 6 December 2024, 3:19 pm | RNZ
Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has stopped short of giving MPs his opinion on how the coalition's gun law changes could impact officer safety. More >>
Te Arawhiti give update on potential Ngāpuhi treaty settlement
Friday, 6 December 2024, 3:15 pm | RNZ
Despite a government preference for "larger groupings" of hāpu to get a mandate, the Office for Māori Crown Relations would not be forcing anyone to the negotiation table, its regional director says. More >>
Climate Commission Methane Advice A Chance To Pull Climate Emergency Brake: Greenpeace
Friday, 6 December 2024, 2:20 pm | Greenpeace
The intensive dairy industry, led by Fonterra, is NZ’s worst climate polluter, belching out vast amounts of superheating methane gas, Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn says. More >>
Special Honours List 6 December 2024 (Bravery Awards)
Friday, 6 December 2024, 6:43 am | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
The King has been pleased to approve the New Zealand Bravery Awards. The Governor-General, under authority delegated by The King, has been pleased to approve the New Zealand Bravery Awards. More >>
Commission Delivers First Review Of The 2050 Target And Advice On The Fourth Emissions Budget
Friday, 6 December 2024, 6:33 am | Climate Change Commission
These reports are our final advice on the fourth emissions budget (for 2036–2040), and the first five-yearly review of the 2050 emissions target. The target review advice also includes a one-off review of whether international shipping and aviation ... More >>
Interim Financial Statements Of The Government Of New Zealand For The Four Months Ended 31 October 2024
Friday, 6 December 2024, 6:30 am | The Treasury
The October results are reported against forecasts based on the Budget Economic and Fiscal Update 2024 (BEFU 2024), published on 30 May 2024, and the results for the same period for the previous year. More >>
'No Apology' From Ayesha Verrall After Clash With Health Commissioner Lester Levy
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 9:01 pm | RNZ
The Labour MP accused Lester Levy of "cooking the books" during a Select Committee. More >>
Marsden Fund Changes Will Undermine Prosperity And Social Cohesion
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 3:22 pm | NZCTU
“Humanities and social science research, which has been defunded by the Government, provides fundamental insights into how our society and culture works and how we can overcome the key challenges we face, from climate change to housing to inequality,” ... More >>
National Government Continues To Punish People For Being Poor
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 12:00 pm | Auckland Action Against Poverty
This National government continues to gaslight those experiencing poverty and they're so clearly out of touch with what's happening on the frontline, it's disappointing, embarrassing and to be frank quite reckless. More >>
Defence Force To Stop 'Raft' Of Things Due To Financial Crunch
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 8:35 pm | RNZ
"There's a lot of things we can't afford to to do at the moment." the Chief of Defence told MPs. More >>
Health Commissioner To Seek Apology After 'Cooking The Books' Accusation
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 8:23 pm | RNZ
Lester Levy will seek an apology from former Health Minister Ayesha Verrall after she suggested at Parliament that he had "reputation for cooking the books". More >>
How Does Te Tiriti o Waitangi Compare To Treaties In Other Colonial Countries?
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 8:18 pm | RNZ
Aotearoa is unique among settler colonial states in having one treaty with the indigenous people, but how does that compare with treaties made with other first nations in Canada, the US and Australia? More >>
An Investigation In The Carbon Emissions Of Members Of Parliament (MPs) In NZ
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 7:42 pm | Pure SEO
This study was sparked by an interest in examining New Zealand’s carbon emissions, focusing on specific corporations and groups within the country. It reflects a global trend of heightened environmental awareness as individuals and organisations increasingly ... More >>
Govt’s Personal Grievance Changes Will Empower Bad Employers
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 6:23 pm | NZCTU
“The Prime Minister and his cabinet continue to demonstrate that they are governing only for employers and couldn’t care less about the people who get up every day and go to work to keep this country running,” said NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi Acting ... More >>
Govt’s Methane Review Designed To Disguise Ideology As Fact - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 5:55 pm | Greenpeace
The methane review is designed to disguise political ideology as scientific fact. It was set up to bypass the independent scientific advice of the Climate Change Commission because that advice didn’t say what the Government - & the livestock industry lobbyists ... More >>
Tax Changes For Charities To Be Announced In Next Budget
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 7:48 pm | RNZ
The Finance Minister says it wouldn't be right to rule out new tax revenue streams. More >>
Santas Descend On Parliament With Dunedin Hospital Wish List
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 7:20 pm | RNZ
Christmas has arrived early at Parliament, with a posse of 20 santas bringing their own southern wish list to the capital. More >>
Beyond 'Depopulation': The Brutal Truth Of New Zealand's Bird Flu Outbreak
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 4:27 pm | Animal Justice Party
Bird Flu Bombshell: 80,000+ Chickens Set to Die – When Will We Wake Up? More >>
Norway Stops Seabed Mining, Putting More Pressure On NZ To Follow
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 4:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace spokesperson Juan Parada says, "This move by Norway to stop the seabed mining in its tracks is a historic win for ocean protection and for the growing movement opposed to the damaging new extractive industry, and puts the spotlight firmly on ... More >>
Christchurch Airport Firefighters To Strike Over Poor Pay Offer
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 3:42 pm | PSA
The firefighters will refuse to carry out a range of duties over a 21-day period, beginning 8am Wednesday 18 December 2024 and ending 6pm Wednesday 8 January 2025. More >>
Supreme Court Decision Shows Need For Government To Stop Interfering In The Judicial Process
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 8:52 am | Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu
The Court noted, crucially, that the rights of customary marine title holders and all New Zealanders can co-exist. This whole political debacle, dominated by extreme voices, has obscured the reality that the customary interests of iwi and hapū and ... More >>
Honeymoon Over For National, Poll Suggests
Monday, 2 December 2024, 8:38 pm | Stuff
Assuming all seats are held, and using the Electoral Commission’s seat calculator, these results would deliver an overhang in Parliament with both Te Pāti Māori and National winning more electorate seats than their party vote entitlement. More >>
Labour Lays Groundwork For Election-Year Capital Gains Tax
Monday, 2 December 2024, 8:15 pm | RNZ
Analysis - Labour's all but confirmed it'll campaign on a capital gains tax next election and could announce the details as early as mid-next year. More >>
AJP Demands Stronger Laws To Protect Animals Like Rocky
Monday, 2 December 2024, 2:27 pm | Animal Justice Party
“This failure highlights the urgent need for stronger laws and enforcement,” said Danette Wereta, AJP spokesperson. “Dogs like Rocky deserve better. Life-chaining and neglect are preventable - weak laws let this cruelty continue.” More >>
CRL: Greater Transparency Needed For Our Largest Infrastructure Project
Monday, 2 December 2024, 11:54 am | Auckland Ratepayers Alliance
“Human error has given us a glimpse into how dire the situation really is” said Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance Spokesman, Sam Warren. More >>
“Same Old Labour” Clearly Not Ready To Return To Treasury Benches
Monday, 2 December 2024, 11:00 am | Taxpayers' Union
“Labour has never met a tax it didn’t like” said Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman, Sam Warren. More >>
Labour’s Commitment On Tax Welcomed - With Caveat
Monday, 2 December 2024, 10:31 am | Tax Justice Aotearoa
“Labour’s commitment to tax reform appears to be strong this time around and that is certainly good news,” says Glenn Barclay, chair of Tax Justice Aotearoa. More >>
New Zealand Nurses To Hold Nationwide Strike
Saturday, 30 November 2024, 6:20 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The fight for free and universal health care must be linked with the political struggle for the socialist reorganisation of society. Workers cannot limit their demands to what the parliamentary parties and union bureaucrats claim is “realistic” or ... More >>
Luxon Surrenders Worker Protections To ACT Party
Friday, 29 November 2024, 9:01 pm | NZCTU
The proposed policy excludes senior executives and specialists from unjustified dismissal protections, unless they negotiate these terms individually—an unrealistic option when employers hold the upper hand in employment agreement negotiations. More >>
Port Industry Welcomes Approved Code Of Practice For Loading And Unloading Cargo At Ports And On Ships
Friday, 29 November 2024, 11:13 am | Maritime New Zealand
For the first time, all commercial ports in New Zealand now have a code of practice approved by the Minister to follow. The ACOP replaces all other existing industry codes of practice related to stevedoring. More >>
Decision To Bar Candace Owens From Entry Into New Zealand Arguably Unlawful: Action Pending
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 9:19 pm | Free Speech Union
A sophisticated country is able to deal with opinions that some find controversial, distasteful, or even dangerous. The most mature way to deal with these views is to challenge and rebut them, not to exclude them from the conversation. More >>
ASB Risks Losing Thousands Of Customers Over Illegal Israeli Settlement Investments
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 6:05 pm | Justice for Palestine
Despite weeks of public pressure and ASB's claim to be "reviewing their investments," the bank continues to invest KiwiSaver funds in Motorola Solutions Inc - a company identified by the United Nations for its role in maintaining and enabling illegal ... More >>
New Zealand Young Labour Welcomes The Decision To Deny Candace Owens Entry To New Zealand
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 3:04 pm | Young Labour
"Aotearoa is a nation built on manaakitanga, kindness, and acceptance,” said Young Labour President Ethan Reille. “I want to acknowledge how big this moment will be for our queer, rainbow and takatāpui communities. More >>
Seabed Mining AGM Disrupted By Representatives Of Ngāti Ruanui And Greenpeace
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 1:37 pm | Greenpeace
Rukutai Watene of Ngāti Ruanui, along with Peeti Wharehoka-Watene and six Greenpeace activists, interrupted the meeting in Sydney, Australia by taking the floor to outline the reasons that he and his hapū oppose seabed mining in their rohe. More >>
Reverberations Of Erebus Disaster Still Felt 45 Years Later
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 10:26 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
On 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand sightseeing flight TE901 crashed into the slopes of Mt Erebus, Antarctica. Everyone onboard lost their lives. More >>
Govt Ignores Health Crisis, Plans To Axe 1500 Public Health Roles
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 12:09 pm | PSA
Cuts hit campaigns to keep Kiwi healthy and data support for health care More >>
Peters Right To Call For More Foreign Investment
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 11:07 am | Taxpayers' Union
Cut anti-competitive red tape, lift the ban on foreign companies owning the plots of land their businesses are based on, and drop one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. That’s how you attract investment, Taxpayers’ Union Policy ... More >>
Greenpeace Gives Christopher Luxon An F On Its First Year In Govt Waging A War On Nature
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 8:29 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has kept track of this in an article published on the organisation’s website, where the coalition government’s so-called War on Nature is documented in detail. More >>
3000 Join Māori Electoral Roll After Treaty Principles Bill Hīkoi
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 8:48 pm | RNZ
New Electoral Commission data shows 2262 people changed from the general roll to the Māori roll, and there were 862 new enrolments. More >>
Samoan Citizenship Bill Passes Into Law
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 5:41 pm | Department Of Internal Affairs
The eligibility criteria for those where the right to citizenship has been restored was decided by Members of New Zealand Parliament. The law does not extend citizenship to the descendants of those affected by the 1982 Act, except those descendants born ... More >>
Government Lacks Vision For Health Sector: NZNO
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 3:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
More specialist and regional nurses are good news for patient and whānau safety and wellbeing, but $10 million represents a 0.2% increase in investment on nurses - which is even less once allied health professionals are hired out of the same fund. More >>
NZDF Urged To End Strike With Fair Offer For Civilian Workers As Mediation Begins
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 2:57 pm | PSA
The PSA urges NZDF to revisit its refusal to budge before it inflicts lasting damage on the civilian workforce and the capability of our military. More >>
Princess Cruises Confronted For A Third Time In Three Days
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 1:38 pm | Climate Action Aotearoa
Protesters hung a banner from a building opposite, reading “You Cruise, We lose.” This banner has been seen draped around several Dunedin locations in order to draw attention to the harm of cruising. More >>
Science Minister "Asleep At The Wheel" Says Science Community, As Science Reforms Continually Delayed
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 11:51 am | Save Science
"We are concerned that the problems identified with the science system, are only being exacerbated by the ongoing cuts we are seeing in the sector while the Minister continually deprioritises, delays, defers, and ignores," says Stewart. More >>
The Government Turns One: PM Christopher Luxon Talks Coalition Dynamics, Differences And Deals
Monday, 25 November 2024, 8:34 pm | RNZ
Analysis - Luxon is loath to spend too much time looking back at his first year, and invited to share any lessons he's learnt, he draws something of a blank. More >>
Climate Finance Commitments Triple At Close Of COP29 – Expert Reaction
Monday, 25 November 2024, 5:34 pm | Science Media Centre
The so-called “finance COP” in Baku, Azerbaijan has just concluded with agreement on the Baku Finance Goal. This aims to replace developed countries’ previous commitment to provide NZ$171 billion annually by 2020. More >>
Govt Needs To Put Taxpayers First After $500 Billion COP Deal
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:52 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Communications Officer Alex Emes called the deal “a move towards global socialism” due to the agreed upon large transfer of wealth from countries like New Zealand to the third world. More >>
New Zealand Ports Urged To End Live Animal Exports As Maritime Union Takes Stand
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:45 am | Animal Justice Party
AJP Welcomes Maritime Union's Historic Stand Against Live Exports. More >>
Oxfam Says COP29 Deal Is A "Global Ponzi Scheme"
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:44 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
Oxfam Aotearoa’s Climate Justice Lead Nick Henry said: "The failure to meet the global need for climate finance is a failure of empathy from the leaders of rich countries." More >>
COP29 ‘Bandaid Over A Bullet Wound’, Polluters Should Expect Resistance - Greenpeace
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:40 am | Greenpeace
We know how to cut emissions - we have all the technology and tools to do so. What’s needed is political will to put these tools into action. More >>
Helen Clark Foundation Calls For Political Action To Reduce The Prevalence Of Junk Food And Improve Health Outcomes
Monday, 25 November 2024, 8:23 am | Helen Clark Foundation
The report argues the long-standing government approach that relies on people taking sole responsibility for their health and the choices they make, will continue to fail unless the obesity conversation shifts from the individual to the wider food ... More >>
Behind the Banner: Inside the hīkoi mō te Tiriti
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 10:26 pm | RNZ
Over nine days, rangatahi and veterans of past hīkoi walked shoulder-to-shoulder to take their message to Parliament. Ella Stewart and Cole Eastham-Farrelly were there. More >>
Concern Regarding Inconsistent Designation Of Terrorist Organizations
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 10:09 pm | Islamic Council of NZ
While it is important to maintain strong alliances, it is equally crucial to uphold our Kiwi values of fairness and justice. New Zealand has always prided itself on its commitment to equality and human rights. More >>
New Zealand Government’s Racially Divisive Treaty Principles Bill Passes First Reading
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 8:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By voting for the bill and allowing it to proceed to the select committee, the coalition parties are enabling ACT—an extremely unpopular party that received just 8.6 percent in the 2023 election—to dominate political discourse, posturing as the party of ... More >>
Former Political Figure Who Abused Teens Loses Name Suppression
Friday, 22 November 2024, 9:34 pm | RNZ
However, his name remains under wraps as he has already indicated he will appeal. More >>
New Zealand Government Urged To Back ICC Arrest Warrants For Israeli Leaders Without Equivocation
Friday, 22 November 2024, 11:15 am | Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
“We are waiting for our government to announce it will arrest Netanyahu and Gallant immediately if they set foot in Aotearoa New Zealand” says PSNA National Chair John Minto. More >>
