Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says the current heatwave that burnt Australia and is currently suffocating New Zealand is a grim view of our climate change future.
…if a region who will be hit hardest by climate change denies that climate change, they should be left to drown. This is darwinism and evolution now, something the West Coast Regional Council probably doesn’t believe in.
The one reason why this new political vehicle is being sounded out is because powerful lobbyists behind National are desperate to establish one drawing on anti-1080 fanatics and commercial fishing interests. There was a recent ‘lunch’ with a high ranking National MP and a large corporate fishing identity that pledged $1million towards this project.
One lesson to be learned from this incident…
On 17th October 2018 former National MP Jami-Lee Ross emerged from the Victoria Street police station in Wellington after filing a complaint on leader Simon Bridges.
We cannot allow the US empire to create another graveyard of popular hopes for freedom and independence in Venezuela today.
If I’m in Auckland, I will have the chance to vote for him.
The first panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like was on the Big Picture, with an overview on foreign policy, labour and women’s perspectives. This is the exchange on foreign policy issues.
Documents I’ve obtained under the Official Information Act, although heavily redacted, show our government really has no idea of the implications.
I really haven’t given a thought to what persons of the political right think of Jacinda Ardern. A story I heard, from my granddaughter of all people, gave me pause.
“[Unnamed relative of Palmerston North] says that Jacinda Ardern only got pregnant to make sure she became Prime Minister”, she said.