Environment Southland who recently voted against declaring a ‘climate emergency’. The only other council to do so in New Zealand so far is Thames-Coromandel.
[…] It’s a relief to see some common sense after so many councils have jumped on the climate emergency bandwagon. The trend doesn’t seem likely to let up soon, so expect your council to vote on a declaration soon (if it hasn’t already).
Taxpayer’s Union
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.
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The insiders win, the outsiders lose, and socialists stay in power whether the people want them to or not.
The locking down of Gosport to protect illegal migrants shows beyond doubt that Britain is a two-tier state, says Paul Birch, where locals must produce ID while illegal migrants are escorted away in luxury coaches.
