The Walking Blind
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We need to create a united culture of protest and activism. It is not enough to protest for a single cause when all that is vital to human and environmental health is being ripped apart by bad governments.
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An audit of OceanaGold's Macraes mine by Otago Regional Council, completed in October, found "continued or repeated non-compliances" with several resource consent environmental monitoring conditions between 2019 and 2024. #NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Fast-tracked gold mine has shaky compliance history, audit reveals
Otago Regional Council found OceanaGold's Macraes mine did not always comply with monitoring conditions, but has stopped short of taking enforcement action.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 13, 2024 at 6:54 PM
An audit of OceanaGold's Macraes mine by Otago Regional Council, completed in October, found "continued or repeated non-compliances" with several resource consent environmental monitoring conditions between 2019 and 2024. #NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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"We know that to prevent extinctions and achieve net zero emissions, we need to keep the old high-carbon-stock forests standing up...No other rich country in the world destroys forests like Australia does.” 🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’
Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent to losses in species-heavy forests
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"We know that to prevent extinctions and achieve net zero emissions, we need to keep the old high-carbon-stock forests standing up...No other rich country in the world destroys forests like Australia does.” 🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It also doesn't save any "red tape". It just creates an additional barrier to understanding whats in your food and means the seller can scrape your data.
Its a sh*tty solution to a non-problem that places the consumer increasingly at risk.
#nzpol
Its a sh*tty solution to a non-problem that places the consumer increasingly at risk.
#nzpol
These guys are dangerous idiots. It's tiresome enough already having to read, and re-check, the labels on everything that I eat, and now they want to have me scan a QR code to get to that information.
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It also doesn't save any "red tape". It just creates an additional barrier to understanding whats in your food and means the seller can scrape your data.
Its a sh*tty solution to a non-problem that places the consumer increasingly at risk.
#nzpol
Its a sh*tty solution to a non-problem that places the consumer increasingly at risk.
#nzpol
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Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
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Here’s a Saturday long read for you 🌸
‘Chillingly familiar’: Why the McSkimming report hit hard for sex workers and a waitress
The scathing IPCA report on police handling of complaints about Jevon McSkimming has resurfaced concerns in two high profile cases
www.stuff.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Here’s a Saturday long read for you 🌸
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November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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jfc
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
jfc
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And still, far too many folk surveyed don't seem to understand that crime is the result of doing all the other things badly, thus National aren't better at maintaining law and order but they are better at creating the circumstances for increased desperation, exploitation, and crime.
November 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
And still, far too many folk surveyed don't seem to understand that crime is the result of doing all the other things badly, thus National aren't better at maintaining law and order but they are better at creating the circumstances for increased desperation, exploitation, and crime.
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“How much has police culture changed in the intervening decades? A close reading of the IPCA report, alongside the Bazley report from 2007, would suggest the answer is “too little”.” #nzpol #RapeCulture
How far has police culture come since the Louise Nicholas case and the Bazley report?
In 2007, an independent inquiry uncovered a ‘male-oriented’ police culture ‘sceptical of sexual assault victims’. What's changed?
thespinoff.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“How much has police culture changed in the intervening decades? A close reading of the IPCA report, alongside the Bazley report from 2007, would suggest the answer is “too little”.” #nzpol #RapeCulture
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
The week that a police scandal rocked Aotearoa New Zealand. At the highest level of law enforcement.
#McSkimming #NzPol #NZPolice #Police #Cartoon #Caricature
The week that a police scandal rocked Aotearoa New Zealand. At the highest level of law enforcement.
#McSkimming #NzPol #NZPolice #Police #Cartoon #Caricature
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
The week that a police scandal rocked Aotearoa New Zealand. At the highest level of law enforcement.
#McSkimming #NzPol #NZPolice #Police #Cartoon #Caricature
The week that a police scandal rocked Aotearoa New Zealand. At the highest level of law enforcement.
#McSkimming #NzPol #NZPolice #Police #Cartoon #Caricature
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"Questions to the IPCA at the time noted that it was understood the officer had been stood down pending an investigation into his alleged inappropriate behaviour with female officers."
NOTE: female officerS, plural
Yet the investigation has gone nowhere after THREE YEARS!!!
NOTE: female officerS, plural
Yet the investigation has gone nowhere after THREE YEARS!!!
Police are refusing to say why an investigation into a high ranking Southland officer has taken nearly three years and is still not concluded.
Prolonged silence: Police investigation into high-ranking officer still unresolved
Police are refusing to say why an investigation into a high ranking Southland officer has taken nearly three years and is still not concluded.
dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"Questions to the IPCA at the time noted that it was understood the officer had been stood down pending an investigation into his alleged inappropriate behaviour with female officers."
NOTE: female officerS, plural
Yet the investigation has gone nowhere after THREE YEARS!!!
NOTE: female officerS, plural
Yet the investigation has gone nowhere after THREE YEARS!!!
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this should immediately have a commentator REMOVED from their roles, instead it’s a strong signal of just how decrepit and servile to power nz media is
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
this should immediately have a commentator REMOVED from their roles, instead it’s a strong signal of just how decrepit and servile to power nz media is
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So the issue by which I am most exercised now isn't McSkimming, but everyone else. One appointment can fall through the cracks. But all of these statutory appointments overseen by the Public Service Commission, first as Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, but then appointments at Social Investment
Further fallout in wake of damning IPCA McSkimming report
McSkimming scandal fallout: Aviation boss ‘on leave’ following bombshell report
Former Police Deputy Commissioner Chris de Wattignar was criticised for his handling of concerns about his colleague. Now he’s on leave from another government agency.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So the issue by which I am most exercised now isn't McSkimming, but everyone else. One appointment can fall through the cracks. But all of these statutory appointments overseen by the Public Service Commission, first as Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, but then appointments at Social Investment
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In today’s NZ Herald
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In today’s NZ Herald
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In today’s NZ Herald
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In today’s NZ Herald
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IPCA report says the PM and Police Minister were in receipt of the McSkimming emails
Would be nice to get some answers about who kew what & when about all of that
Would be nice to get some answers about who kew what & when about all of that
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
IPCA report says the PM and Police Minister were in receipt of the McSkimming emails
Would be nice to get some answers about who kew what & when about all of that
Would be nice to get some answers about who kew what & when about all of that
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bACk oN tRacK
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
bACk oN tRacK
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“The lawyer for a woman who accused former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming of sexual offending says police failed his client by dismissing her complaints & ultimately prosecuting her for speaking out”.
Who decided to charge her? Who?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Who decided to charge her? Who?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Police 'failed' woman who accused Jevon McSkimming of sexual offending, her lawyer says
The allegations arose from an affair between McSkimming and the woman who at the time was a junior non-sworn police employee.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
“The lawyer for a woman who accused former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming of sexual offending says police failed his client by dismissing her complaints & ultimately prosecuting her for speaking out”.
Who decided to charge her? Who?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Who decided to charge her? Who?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Disappointed to hear the new Police Commissioner say on RNZ this morning that it was a failure of leadership and not systematic. Those 'leaders' were created by the system. Women needed to hear recognition that it could be systematic and a determination to investigate and deal with that.
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Disappointed to hear the new Police Commissioner say on RNZ this morning that it was a failure of leadership and not systematic. Those 'leaders' were created by the system. Women needed to hear recognition that it could be systematic and a determination to investigate and deal with that.