As a former press photographer I always used to dread Friday the 13 th .  Not because I’m superstitious but because the editor always expected an outstanding Black Friday photo for the front page. My colleagues and I would be sent out...

Who likes being lied to by people paid by the oil industry who pose as “experts” on climate change? Did you know it’s been going on for 25 years? In a couple of weeks, the UN’s official advisors on climate change science, the...

Earlier this week I wrote about the start of New Zealand’s first-ever Shark Awareness Week . I should have also mentioned that it’s Conservation Week. Not that you’d know that when it comes to looking after life in our oceans. Last...

Sharks are in for an image makeover during New Zealand’s first-ever Shark Awareness Week which starts today! Sharks often make the headlines for the wrong reasons so this week a series of events around NZ will focus on the vital role...

This is the second blog in what is now an occasional series, that we’ve decided to call ‘Steven Joyce doesn’t understand…’. After writing Wednesday’s blog called ‘ Steven Joyce doesn’t understand economics ’ it swiftly became...

It’s been a year since Greenpeace in Australia took action against the Margiris super trawler and to mark the anniversary – admittedly coincidentally – Greenpeace activists in Chile protested against the presence of the monster boat...

It is time to get reinspired as a nation. To feel proud again of those things that have made our country the coolest little country on earth. And to remember how it was that we got our country that way. It wasn’t by sitting on...

Right now the New Zealand Government is putting the final touches to its plans for a public consultation about sharks. Unfortunately, what we’re hearing from officials gives little room for optimism that they’ll do the right thing and...

Yesterday economic development minster Steven Joyce showed that he doesn’t understand economics . Which must make his job a little difficult. Well, either he doesn’t understand economics, or he’s rather ham-fistedly trying to...