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The Regulatory Standards Bill is Seymour’s next power grab
The Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) isn’t just another law - it’s a plan to hand more power to corporations, erase Te Tiriti o Waitangi from lawmaking, and make it harder for any future government to protect people or nature.
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Luxon Government passes kiwi killing bill under urgency
The amendment to the Wildlife Act, New Zealand’s foundational wildlife protection law, was passed under urgency today and allows the Director-General of Conservation to grant companies permission to kill kiwi…
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Luxon Government to pass law tonight that legalises killing Kiwi
The Luxon Government has just introduced a bill into the House that would make it legal to kill protected wildlife. Greenpeace understands the Bill is being rushed through all stages…
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Australian election a warning shot for Luxon’s Trump-style agenda
The Australian election result has sent a clear message across the Tasman: voters will not tolerate Trump-style politics that fuel environmental destruction and ignore the climate crisis.
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The populists’ war on ‘Woke’ is also a war on nature
New Zealanders recently gave the Luxon-led coalition government a record low rating of 4.2 out of 10 in the latest Ipsos Issues Monitor survey. Even falling concern about price inflation…
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New Zealand’s environment report card is alarming
The Government’s three-yearly environment report card, Our Environment 2025, documents a rapid and alarming decline of nature in Aotearoa.
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A hostile takeover of nature by a former tobacco lobbyist: What you need to know about the Government’s RMA reforms
The National-led Government has announced plans to rewrite the laws that protect our environment – putting private property rights ahead of the health of nature and our communities.
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Government’s RMA overhaul a hostile takeover of nature
Greenpeace is hitting out at the Government’s plan to scrap and rewrite the Resource Management Act (RMA), calling it a hostile takeover of nature.
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Bottom trawling and why it’s bad for the ocean
Bottom trawling is an incredibly destructive method of fishing that involves dragging weighted nets across the seafloor. It causes wide scale damage to our oceans, but New Zealand fishing companies still use it both locally and internationally.
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Gene Technology Bill Submission
In the early 2000s, the GE Free NZ movement successfully fended off the release of Genetically Engineered organisms into our food and the environment. We insisted on a precautionary approach…
