Media & Opinion - Page 6
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Deep-sea drilling goes to court
Greenpeace is seeking a judicial review of Anadarko's offshore drilling consent: Greenpeace today filed papers at the High Court of New Zealand in Wellington asking for a Judicial Review of the decision to allow Anadarko to carry out... More about Deep-sea drilling goes to court
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Against subsidising developers
The New Zealand Initiative - formerly known as the Business Round Table - has a brilliant new plan to solve the housing crisis: subsidise developer's profits: Think tank the NZ Initiative is proposing the taxpayer - rather than developers and... More about Against subsidising developers
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The Tongariro report
The Waitangi Tribunal has issued its report into the National Park District, finding that the crown committed serious Treaty breaches in the establishment and management of Tongariro National Park and in the Tongariro hydro power scheme. They... More about The Tongariro report
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Book Review: Is it really too much to ask?
Jeremy Clarkson has presented a rather random series of thoughts in his new book. Are they his own? Who knows. Were they always so bippity boppity? I certainly hope not. Depending on what kind of person picks up this book, it is very easy to get... More about Book Review: Is it really too much to ask?
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Parliamentary sovereignty trumps contracts
Skycity's New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill was reported back [PDF] from select committee today. But while the National majority on the committee recommended that it be passed with only minor amendments, Labour and the Greens... More about Parliamentary sovereignty trumps contracts
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Time to end the LGOIMA veto
Something that came to my attention while reading the Ombudsman's Annual Report [PDF]: last year, Judith Collins made a routine request for information to the Independent Maori Statutory Board (the unelected body which advises the Auckland... More about Time to end the LGOIMA veto
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Customs, digital searches, and the police
Last month, in response to an admission by the US government that it uses border searches of laptops to harass and monitor its domestic political opponents, I speculated on whether the New Zealand government was doing this too. Thanks to Thomas... More about Customs, digital searches, and the police
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Its not right
By now you've probably already seen this: a campaign to get the New Zealand government to release the text of of the Trans-Pacific partnership Agreement so that we can see what they're signing up for in our name - and what they're... More about Its not right
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What a coincidence!
Last month, internet entrepreneur Seeby Woodhouse spoke out against the government's Spy Bill. And suddenly, this happens: One of the most amazing revelations that came out of last nights TICS Bill public meeting in Wellington was Seeby... More about What a coincidence!
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More censorship at DoC
The Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme is a plan by the Hawke's Bay Regional Council to build a dam to provide greater irrigation for dairy farmers. The plan would ruin the Tukituki River, filling it with cowshit and toxic algae, so in... More about More censorship at DoC
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