How NZ Councils Are Wasting Millions on Climate Change
I recently made a formal submission to the Kāpiti Coast District Council on their Draft Emissions Reduction Plan 2026–30. You are welcome to copy it and question your council.
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For the past three years, the coalition has acted as a political dam. Pray that it doesn’t break.
His Silence Is Becoming Deafening
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This episode sums up everything wrong with National right now. Arrogant, directionless and happy to bite the hands that help them.
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The Ministry of Health has provided a detailed list of ministers and officials who it says attended a key Vaccine Ministers meeting. But it also says the meeting was not minuted and no notes exist. Another agency denies that the meeting even happened.
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“If you think about the people who’ve become very wealthy in New Zealand, they’ve all started from nothing.”
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… slight (adjective, verb, noun) - adjective 1a: having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body b: lacking in strength or substance : flimsy, frail c: deficient in weight, solidity, or importance : trivial 2: small of its kind or in amount verb 1: to