Metiria Turei

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• Electoral (Administration) Amendment Bill submissions

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 616
  You can make a submission until 10 December on the Electoral (Administration) Amendment Bill. The bill is generally excellent – it merges the Electoral Commission and the Chief Electoral Office, and allows the Commission to give advice on the legality of propose ads etc. The one change I would like is to the ...
  1 week ago

• Mokihinui – Brownlee’s burp

  
  frogblog — Authority: 576
  So this week our Minister of Mining and Damming (aka Energy and Resources) let slip that the Mokihinui hydro-dam “would not go ahead”. Does he know something or was it just his ‘opinion’? Whatever the brain-burp was, he was ill-advised to say it when he has no direct decision-making power. However, it’d be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Smart hook – smart economics

  
  frogblog — Authority: 576
  Continuing the marine theme for today, I was pleased to see an article in a recent edition of Seafood NZ magazine about a clever invention to prevent seabirds like albatross getting hooked on tuna long-lines. It’s called a Smart Hook. Birds (and turtles) see a baited hook being launched off the back of a boat as an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Invalid Hysteria

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 502
  Paula Bennett has turned her attention to invalid beneficiaries . In a carefully worded statement, she says: “This Government will support those that cannot work. “I just want to be clear that this is not a blanket 85,000 people having to walk through the doors of Work and Income in the first month or ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vote for a sustainable ocean: buy the best fish

  
  frogblog — Authority: 576
  Forest and Bird has issued its update of the popular, and very useful, Best Fish Guide . The guide takes into account the state of fish stocks, the amount of seabird, marine mammal and non-target fish bycatch, the damage done to marine habitats and other ecological effects caused by the fishing to decide on its ...
  3 weeks ago

• Think our native forests were safe? Think again.

  
  frogblog — Authority: 576
  Agricultural intensification over the past 10 years has led to the highest rate of native vegetation loss since European colonisation. Lake Taupo farm and forest So says the 2009 annual report of Landcare Research, a Crown Research Institute, in an article about ‘Post-capitalism conservation’ . Landcare ...
  4 weeks ago

• Unequal Data

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 502
  I see that question time was filled with references to the UNDP Human Development Report on Human Mobility and Development and a book called The Spirit Level . No Right Turn and FrogBlog are also terribly excited about the report, as if inequality is the only thing that matters. They probably get this idea from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Love Wild Rivers? Give them your support

  
  frogblog — Authority: 576
  Cool. Today a new campaign has been launched for one of New Zealand’s most iconic features – our Wild Rivers. It’s great to see diverse groups – tree-huggers, deer-stalkers, bird-watchers, knobbly-kneed trampers, sharp-edged climbers, risky rafters, kool-kat kayakers, and angelic anglers – representing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Chalking Nick in Nelson

  
  frogblog — Authority: 576
  Chalking the opinion of many on the streets of Nelson this morning… A National Government created Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act in 1997 to protect National Parks from mining. The Government wants to mine in Kahurangi National Park, a Park created by National while Nick Smith was Conservation ...
  4 weeks ago

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