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Comment: What worries me the most with Bishop's RMA reform is the loss of significant features of the environment being sacrificed on the altar of development, writes Geoffrey Palmer.
Geoffrey Palmer: The vaulting ambition of Chris Bishop
newsroom.co.nz
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Comment: What worries me the most with Bishop's RMA reform is the loss of significant features of the environment being sacrificed on the altar of development, writes Geoffrey Palmer.
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this sweet man walks around with a cart and tools, planting flowers and trees and shrubs, wishing everyone "happy halloween" year-round - and then the city removes them. i find this joyful and sad and all sorts of things
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
this sweet man walks around with a cart and tools, planting flowers and trees and shrubs, wishing everyone "happy halloween" year-round - and then the city removes them. i find this joyful and sad and all sorts of things
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I feel like there should be a personal version of the national emergency phone klaxon to remind me to put the bins out tomorrow night. If that recycling bin doesn't get emptied, I'm screwed.
December 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I feel like there should be a personal version of the national emergency phone klaxon to remind me to put the bins out tomorrow night. If that recycling bin doesn't get emptied, I'm screwed.
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For anyone in Aotearoa looking for a worthwhile cause to make a Christmas donation to, please consider the Aunties Christmas appeal. Any contribution is gratefully received. #kikorangi #nzpol givealittle.co.nz/cause/the-au...
The Aunties Christmas Appeal
Your donation to the Aunties this Christmas 2026 will help us to provide Christmas to over 113 children/grandchildren of Aunties Whānau.
givealittle.co.nz
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
For anyone in Aotearoa looking for a worthwhile cause to make a Christmas donation to, please consider the Aunties Christmas appeal. Any contribution is gratefully received. #kikorangi #nzpol givealittle.co.nz/cause/the-au...
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Merry Christmas!
From Contact, Genesis, Mercury, Meridian Energy ...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
From Contact, Genesis, Mercury, Meridian Energy ...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
1000 customers each weekday have power disconnected
More than 10,000 households a month have their power disconnected, new data shows.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Merry Christmas!
From Contact, Genesis, Mercury, Meridian Energy ...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
From Contact, Genesis, Mercury, Meridian Energy ...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Freepost it back to them!
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Freepost it back to them!
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🍃🌹🌿 Brilliant! I hope they revoke #FastTrack, #RSB & #MinistryofRegulation too.
#NZGreens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#NZGreens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects
"We will revoke them, even if consents are issued," said the Greens' resources spokesperson Steve Abel.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
🍃🌹🌿 Brilliant! I hope they revoke #FastTrack, #RSB & #MinistryofRegulation too.
#NZGreens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#NZGreens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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🍃🌹🌿 #NZGreens' major focus is #economic issues, not identity politics
The public perception reflects the media's obsession with identity, not the #Greens' -RYAN WARD
open.substack.com/pub/weareund...
The public perception reflects the media's obsession with identity, not the #Greens' -RYAN WARD
open.substack.com/pub/weareund...
Greens' major focus is economic issues, not identity politics
The public perception reflects the media's obsession with identity, not the Greens'
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
🍃🌹🌿 #NZGreens' major focus is #economic issues, not identity politics
The public perception reflects the media's obsession with identity, not the #Greens' -RYAN WARD
open.substack.com/pub/weareund...
The public perception reflects the media's obsession with identity, not the #Greens' -RYAN WARD
open.substack.com/pub/weareund...
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🍃🌹🌿 #NZGreens have demonstrated they are the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ political party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/weareund...?
Stop calling the Greens radical
As opposed to the flatly ideological Coalition partners, they have demonstrated themselves as the most evidence-based and pragmatic party
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
🍃🌹🌿 #NZGreens have demonstrated they are the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ political party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/weareund...?
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🍃🌹🌿 I’m with the #NZGreens - let’s #repeal this #mining madness
& start making decisions that are good for all #NZers & our environment!
Love your #GreenBudget too!
You’ve got my vote! 💚 #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
& start making decisions that are good for all #NZers & our environment!
Love your #GreenBudget too!
You’ve got my vote! 💚 #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🍃🌹🌿 I’m with the #NZGreens - let’s #repeal this #mining madness
& start making decisions that are good for all #NZers & our environment!
Love your #GreenBudget too!
You’ve got my vote! 💚 #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
& start making decisions that are good for all #NZers & our environment!
Love your #GreenBudget too!
You’ve got my vote! 💚 #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
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Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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People love the idea of importing overseas wild flower meadows into New Zealand (for the bees) but what they really want is a manicured flower garden. Most people see photos like this and tell us we need to mow it.
Mostly exotic species but high plant diversity and supports domestic honeybees.
Mostly exotic species but high plant diversity and supports domestic honeybees.
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
People love the idea of importing overseas wild flower meadows into New Zealand (for the bees) but what they really want is a manicured flower garden. Most people see photos like this and tell us we need to mow it.
Mostly exotic species but high plant diversity and supports domestic honeybees.
Mostly exotic species but high plant diversity and supports domestic honeybees.
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Great to see this progress. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
West Coast council winning battle - but not war - against pesky weed
The before and after shots tell the story: regional council staff have had some wins in the ongoing war on the pestilential water weed, parrots feather.
www.thepress.co.nz
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Great to see this progress. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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I'm not sure what species of digger bee as they were moving too fast to get a good look. One of these ones. www.fortheloveofbees.co.nz/ngaro-huruhuru
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I'm not sure what species of digger bee as they were moving too fast to get a good look. One of these ones. www.fortheloveofbees.co.nz/ngaro-huruhuru
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Native bee burrows in hard clay.
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Native bee burrows in hard clay.
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This is what native bee habitat looks like in Aotearoa New Zealand. Not an introduced wildflower in sight.
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
This is what native bee habitat looks like in Aotearoa New Zealand. Not an introduced wildflower in sight.
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I actually think it's a big deal the Brazilian president, one of the most popular leaders in South America, of a country with substantial oil interests, is championing a roadmap away from fossil fuels. That probably wouldn't have emerged without #COP30
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I actually think it's a big deal the Brazilian president, one of the most popular leaders in South America, of a country with substantial oil interests, is championing a roadmap away from fossil fuels. That probably wouldn't have emerged without #COP30
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In plain terms, the United States aligned itself with Russia against Ukraine and NATO. By transmitting Moscow’s surrender terms unedited and pressuring Kyiv to accept them, the Trump Regime effectively sided with Russia in the war and attempted to force Ukraine’s capitulation. It is betrayal.
Russia drafted a 28 point surrender plan, handed it to the Trump team, and the regime delivered it to Kyiv unedited, demanding Zelensky sign it by Thanksgiving or lose all US support. Trump and Vance then promoted the plan exactly as Russia wrote it, verbatim, on TV, online, and in person.
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
In plain terms, the United States aligned itself with Russia against Ukraine and NATO. By transmitting Moscow’s surrender terms unedited and pressuring Kyiv to accept them, the Trump Regime effectively sided with Russia in the war and attempted to force Ukraine’s capitulation. It is betrayal.
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Geoffrey Palmer: The McSkimming scandal shows we need a whole new Policing Act - https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-11-2025/geoffrey-palmer-the-mcskimming-scandal-shows-we-need-a-whole-new-policing-act - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news
Geoffrey Palmer: The McSkimming scandal shows we need a whole new Policing Act
Democracy requires a trusted system to uphold the rule of law. In this instance, the rule of law has been polluted at its source.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Geoffrey Palmer: The McSkimming scandal shows we need a whole new Policing Act - https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-11-2025/geoffrey-palmer-the-mcskimming-scandal-shows-we-need-a-whole-new-policing-act - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news
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How far has police culture come since the Louise Nicholas case and the Bazley report?
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 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How far has police culture come since the Louise Nicholas case and the Bazley report?
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Only 1/2hr after sunset, while taking a timelapse, this was happening in front of my camera (timelapse processing later).
This was about 1/4 of the #Aurora happening off the South Otago coast.
#Nikon #NZ #AuroraAustralis
Nikon Z7ii 20mmS ISO f/1.8 1.3 seconds
This was about 1/4 of the #Aurora happening off the South Otago coast.
#Nikon #NZ #AuroraAustralis
Nikon Z7ii 20mmS ISO f/1.8 1.3 seconds
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Only 1/2hr after sunset, while taking a timelapse, this was happening in front of my camera (timelapse processing later).
This was about 1/4 of the #Aurora happening off the South Otago coast.
#Nikon #NZ #AuroraAustralis
Nikon Z7ii 20mmS ISO f/1.8 1.3 seconds
This was about 1/4 of the #Aurora happening off the South Otago coast.
#Nikon #NZ #AuroraAustralis
Nikon Z7ii 20mmS ISO f/1.8 1.3 seconds
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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 2:02 AM
Further fallout in wake of damning IPCA McSkimming report
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ACT sinking to TPM levels in the latest Curia poll at www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT
They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance
#nzpol
Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT
They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance
#nzpol
October 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
ACT sinking to TPM levels in the latest Curia poll at www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT
They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance
#nzpol
Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT
They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance
#nzpol