If we are going to spend substantial sums of public money and permanently alter the way people live, work, shop, visit one another and move around their city, we should have the evidence to demonstrate that the promised benefits are actually being delivered.
If the fires from musical birthday cards are bad, wait till the EVs get in on the act.
Different rules for Māori only exacerbate frustrations and add further potential for conflict. There is a lesson here with wider implications that too many seem determined to ignore.
A taxi driver’s strange tale and what farming in East Africa is really like.
Councillors chose to hold the plant at arm’s length. They then behaved as though that put the politics of it out of their reach too, which was never true.
The powers that be are just sweeping these issues under the rug and whistling past the landfill graveyards.
Generative AI threatens to upend citizen science records, as images of fake species slowly start to proliferate.
Water is a universal necessity and it is not a commodity to be divided along ethnic lines. To yield control of New Zealand’s most vital public asset to tribal interests is to trigger a dangerous constitutional crisis.
The MDBP was always a political solution to a political problem, but its consequences are not minor. We are long overdue for a dose of non-political reality.
Clare Swinney highlighted the scale of coordination already underway across government and councils, modelled on Covid-era response frameworks.
Together, these three bills create a layered, compounding risk for the organic sector and for all non-GE farmers, producers and consumers. Public submissions close for two of the bills tonight.
In a volcanic, earthquake prone country, you never know when you might need cover, Kiwis need a natural hazard insurance system that works.
Poor tribespeople are too busy trying to survive or massacre their neighbours.
