John Rofe This week we had the astonishing spectacle of the Speaker, Trevor Mallard, finally coming clean about how much the mistaken use of the term “rape” has cost the NZ taxpayer, after a week or so of prevarication. He is now being taken apart by a cowardly pack of
The High Court has ruled in favour of Hauraki Coromandel Climate Action Inc (HCCA) which sought a judicial review of the decision of the Thames-Coromandel District Council (TCDC) to refuse to sign the Local Government Leaders Climate Declaration. The Court has ruled that TCDC’s decision was unlawful and has
Dear Editor Climate changes because nothing is permanent. Child-like minds prefer things not to change but children grow up. Or many do. Many adults live with childish outlooks. They are lazy and prefer simple solutions to problems that even children can understand are complex. An example of a simple solution
Global Warming & the Climate Emergency What a week that was! No sooner had Jacinda Ardern bamboozled her Labour Party, the Greens and the Maori Party to vote for a motion claiming a “climate emergency”, than a panel of distinguished international scientists calling themselves The Argonauts published a report showing
It seems Simon Wilson has paid another visit to the pixies at the bottom of the garden to get some corroborating evidence on solving climate issues. This was a good move by Simon as, while they are notorious pranksters, pixies are not malevolent and are known to help out a
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Prelude: Wikipedia tells us: “It is verified that Goebbels did put forth a theory which has come to be more commonly associated with the expression “big lie”. Goebbels wrote the following paragraph in an article dated 12 January 1941, 16 years after Hitler’s first use of the phrase. The
ACT Party “Today’s climate emergency was a triumph for post-rational politics with feelings rather than facts driving the Government’s response to climate change,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the Government has a sound climate change policy, it doesn’t need to declare an emergency. If it has
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has declared a climate emergency and mandated that government departments buy only EVs for their fleet: The Government will require all its agencies and ministries to exclusively buy electric vehicles and will mandate all public sector buildings to be up to a “green standard”. This is
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Back when I still punching the clock every day, I was a member of my relevant union. Not because of ideology, but from simple, practical consideration. Union membership brought a raft of benefits, from discount movie tickets to free legal representation. These were the basic worker benefits that unions were
