Mike Smith Files High Court Challenge Against Minister’s Move To Block Climate Tort Litigation
Mike Smith has filed High Court proceedings challenging Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith’s announcement that he will introduce legislation to amend…

Mike Smith has filed High Court proceedings challenging Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith’s announcement that he will introduce legislation to amend…

El Niño could peak over New Zealand just as this Government guts the environment ministry and protects the polluters fuelling the crisis.

Private emails, hidden lobbying and big polluters trying to dodge Smith v Fonterra. This is what corporate influence looks like.

Marama Davidson, Mike Smith, John Tamihere, Matthew Hooton and Matthew Tukaki walk into The Bradbury Group. New Zealand politics may not survive the hour.

They call it parliamentary sovereignty. Martyn calls it what it looks like: retrospective law to shield big polluters from a citizen using the courts.

The Bradbury Group turns one because the old show was punished for saying the quiet parts out loud: Israel, think tanks, media power and big polluter influence.

Officials said do not intervene. Big Polluters wanted protection from Mike Smith’s court case. The Government went ahead and gave them exactly what they wanted.

The rich will raise walls and buy more air conditioning. Everyone else gets heat, hunger, displacement and a political system protecting the polluters.

Private companies sought protection from climate lawsuits. The public found out through court action, not the Prime Minister’s Office. Labour says Luxon now owes New Zealand an explanation.

Fonterra and Z Energy wanted protection from climate lawsuits. Luxon’s Government moved to give it to them. Now the Greens want an inquiry into who knew what.