Perhaps the Wellington-centred media, who have been promulgating the idea that New Zealand is stuck in a slough of despond, need to get out more. The world’s always going to look miserable from a dyspeptic capital that is itself mired in the doldrums.
In 2023 we found out the paper straws have more ‘forever chemicals’ than plastic straws. While plastic straws have the teflon style (PFAS) ‘forever chemicals’ – the paper straws had even more of them.
From beaches to old-growth forests, wind farms are destroying the environment in the name of saving it, says Sandra Bourke. Greens are turning their backs as reckless renewables industrialise the natural world.
“Greater Wellington” sues Wellington City Council and Tiaki Wai over Moa Point sewage disaster.
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.
