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Our charitable status legal marathon
This week the final leg of our charitable status legal marathon will be in the Supreme Court in Wellington. The outcome in the Supreme Court will not decide whether we get charitable status. It will simply clarify further the definition of what a charity can be. Then, based on that, we can decide to re-apply…
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This really is the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Really.
The other day we stumbled across a youtube video by the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, starring Prime Minister John Key.
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Response to Minister of Energy and Resources July 2013
Energy minster Simon Bridges has refused to confirm or deny the existence of official government documents linked to accusations that he misled Parliament.
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Transforming Tuna Fisheries in Pacific Island Countries
Greenpeace’s vision for a transformed tuna fishery in Pacific Island countries includes the following key aspects. Methods of fishing used would be pole and line, troll, handline, free-school purse seine and best-practice longline. Tuna species would be harvested at sustainable levels, with minimal bycatch.
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It’s Simple, Simon
Minister of Energy Simon Bridges was just the other day branded the “Justin Bieber of the cabinet”. One can only guess that’s either because of his crooning at the Parliamentary…
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Deep Seabed Mining
The deep sea is a place of myth and mystery, filled with weird and wonderful life forms, and vital to the survival of our planet. But now, this mostly unknown…
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New Zealand sits idly by as the Maui’s dolphin slips towards extinction
The back-and-forth on Maui’s dolphins between Government departments, released under the Official Information Act and reported by the Dominion Post over the weekend, is gravely concerning for two reasons. Firstly,…
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Oil slick politics
Last week, documents released to the Labour Party revealed that Government Ministers Steven Joyce and Simon Bridges had met with oil giant Shell to thrash out a back-room deal to criminalise protesting at sea.
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An eyewitness account of the Gulf of Mexico deep sea oil disaster
John Wathen is an award winning photojournalist who recently toured Aotearoa recounting his experience both on the ground and in the air documenting the catastrophic 2011 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Sealord’s change of tuna
Finally, some long-awaited news: New Zealand’s biggest tuna brand, Sealord, has acknowledged that destructive fish aggregating devices are OUT and more sustainable fishing methods are IN. The company announced yesterday afternoon that it will be phasing out the use of FAD-caught tuna by early 2014!
