Mike Smith Climate Case Exposes Big Polluter Farce
They call it parliamentary sovereignty. Martyn calls it what it looks like: retrospective law to shield big polluters from a citizen using the courts.

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

Family carers won a path to employment rights in the Supreme Court. Now the Government has introduced a Bill to shut that path down.

Disabled communities say they were shut out again as the Government rushed through sweeping disability support law changes.

After disability carers won in the Supreme Court, the Government’s response is to rewrite the law and strip protections away again.

Greenpeace says Luxon’s Government is rewriting climate law to protect corporate polluters like Fonterra from facing accountability in court while New Zealanders carry the cost of climate chaos.

If justice depends on what you can afford, it isn’t justice. And New Zealand is getting dangerously close to that line.

When a court says evidence was “concocted to secure convictions,” it’s not just a case falling apart — it’s the system being forced to look at itself.