Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org The West Coast After a Department of Conservation appeal to the Environment Court in 2012, the West Coast Regional Council was ordered to add a further 215 schedule 2 wetlands to its Soil and Water Plan. It is estimated about 5000ha of wetlands on private land
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org NZ has a tradition of encouraging home ownership, seen as a buffer against poverty and providing security and a high quality of life for families. ‘’When you dispossess people of their land, regardless of the colour of their skin, it drops those people into poverty’ West
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Thank you to all of those who have used our email tool to tell Winston Peters and his colleagues to scrap the second round of firearms law changes, including the dangerous/insecure proposed firearms register. In politics, the squeaky wheel gets the oil,
George The relentless promotion of PM Jacinda Ardern as some kind of paragon of virtue has become a deceptive and delusional farce and has now reached stomach-churning proportions. Just how much longer can this misrepresentation continue? If ever a person has used a tragic event to manipulate their own
William Holy-Hasted Impakter.com Jamie Crummie is the co-founder of TooGoodToGo, a startup tackling food waste around the world. The app allows users to buy left-over food from restaurants at a discounted price at the end of the day. Founded in 2016, the start-up began as
Christian Jarrett is a senior editor at Aeon, working on the forthcoming Psyche website that will take a multidisciplinary approach to the age-old question of how to live. A cognitive neuroscientist by training, his writing has appeared in BBC Future, WIRED and New York Magazine, among others. His books
Robert Hassan University of Melbourne A survey this year revealed that Australians, on average, spend 10.2 hours a day with interactive digital technologies. And this figure goes up every year. This is time we don’t get back. And our analogue lives, which include everything not digital, shrink in
Fighting Temeraire * Title A Game of Birds and Wolves The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War * Author Simon Parkin * Published 2019 * Pages 320 This is the story of WATU, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit. Led by a Captain RN who had been invalided out of the Navy with tuberculosis, and
Editor’s Note: For those of us of a certain age, the name “Holden” unleashes waves of sentiment. But growing up with an icon, even loving what it meant, isn’t the same as loving it today. It’s possible to kill a brand, even a beloved one. This morning
This is part one of a series of articles that exposes the ideology behind the New Zealand Mates & Dates programme. Our Guest writer reveals what they don’t want New Zealand parents or the general public to know. *First published February 2019 Mates & Dates Part one: Biology doesn’
Michael Reddell croakingcassandra.com It was remarkable to pick up the Herald yesterday and find their coverage of the SFO prosecutions over the donations to the National Party given over to some “gotcha” attacks on Jami-Lee Ross. The huge headline is “Own Goal” and the next level down is
Dear Director, I draw your attention to an extensive article in the “Chronicle” for 17/2/20 by a member of your staff, one Awhina Twomey, which contains several perversions of the truth about New Zealand’s history and in particular the Treaty of Waitangi. Thus she ignores the fact
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied geology, physics, chemistry, maths, meteorology, cycles, industry economics and commodity markets. Two green-dream fantasies are heading for a massive and costly collision. Firstly they dream of generating all grid power from wind/solar propped up by battery storage (such as lots of giant
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Last night Parliament debated the second reading of the Arms Legislation Bill. New Zealand First, Labour, and Greens all supported the Bill. But last night’s debate showed that the Government doesn’t have it all stitched up. This isn’t a done
George Well, the banning of overseas investors buying property in New Zealand has worked a treat. Another figment of this helpless COL’s imagination. Considering only 3% of property sales were to overseas investors it was obvious from the start it was a never a contributing factor towards the lack
Bilbo Baggins Film freelancers could be facing a quadruple whammy of hits in the nearish future: * Global recession if Chinese manufacturing stalls * NZSPG incentives for production investment in NZ going away * Coronavirus on international travel And this… […] “The Screen Industry Workers Bill will restore collective bargaining rights for screen industry
