This week, Ruwan, David and Beth discuss the government’s ban on plastic bags. What will the unintended consequences be? What is ACT’s alternative? And Amazon, run by the richest man in the world, is set to film the Lord of the Rings TV show in New Zealand. But taxpayers may need to fork out $375 million for Jeff Bezos’ company to make it happen. Is it worth it? Or should that money be put to better uses?
As election year is upon us, we must all demand real reform of both the RMA and Local Government.
Like the rest of south-east Australia, Tasmania is a landscape shaped by humans for millennia.
Over the next tens of thousands of years, it’s reasonable to assume that humanity will have pioneered numerous ways to geoengineer the planet’s climate on rapid timescales, so another ice age could very well be preventable.
It makes one wonder why on earth the National Party don’t have enough sense to replace their liability of a leader, who is already costing them votes.
“Sally Jade Jones”, “Caoimhin B Morcant” and “Charles Gray” are fake Facebook accounts being used by a far-left activist to acquire data on thousands of political opponents.
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Some men have learned. They have done the work of unlearning the old rules: man up, harden up, don’t be soft. But some men are still learning. Not because they don’t feel deeply, but because they were taught to lock it down, praised for being tough and rewarded for being silent.
