Gil Greening

A doozy, uncovered by victim-survivor advocates Backbone Collective. Officials said if the courts found out people were at risk of family violence, the system would have to do something about it - a massive change. So they decided it was best to sweep victim-survivors, incl children, under the rug.

‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success 36 Months accused ban critics of being paid off by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up sponsorship deals, eyeing global expansion and coming up with its own AI tool to sell.

Great reporting on the shysters behind the Social Media Ban by @cameronwilson.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...

Like, look at this headline next to a picture of Peggy Burrows, a principal called out by the DPM last week. If you read the article, she hasn't done anything that's mentioned in the headline. Is thus a hit piece or what? #nzpol

Russell Brown: Musk’s Grokipedia is a billionaire’s swipe at Wikipedia’s collaborative success My Wikipedia entry began as a joke, but it’s Grokipedia that’s laughable.

New column: I was not born in Timaru, even though it used to say so on Wikipedia. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Schools rapped for spending on gym memberships, yoga classes and overseas travel The principal of a Christchurch school is defending an $18,500 trip to Queenstown for its senior leadership team, one of scores questioned by the Office of the Auditor-General for their spending.

Principals spending their wellbeing allowance shouldn't be news. This is a further attack on schools. Suss that Peggy Burrows specifically named. What are MPs spending? #nzpol

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Days After COP30, Brazil Weakened Amazon Safeguards - Inside Climate News Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between environmental protection and economic growth.

“It’s happening in Brazil that mirrors what you’re seeing around the world. Fights over democracy, human rights & institutional power, a global pattern of industrial/political blocs pushing deregulation and weakening institutions designed to protect ecosystems.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0912202...

Reminds me of when local wifi login required you to enter your DOB. Which is why I have many different DOBs in various corners of the internet...

Legislative override (potentially retrospective) in 3 … 2 … 1 …

BONKERS!

The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.

Let that sink in.

#NZPOL

The disinformation wars are here How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.

"Across the world, newsrooms and NGOs are being shuttered or even raided by authorities, all in the name of a crusade to protect free speech. And it’s just getting started."
www.theverge.com/features/839...

Akaroa King Salmon products recalled over listeria risk The recalled salmon products were sold in Christchurch and Dunedin.

Meanwhile.

"Akaroa King Salmon products recalled over listeria risk"

One day, when people are living once again in leaky homes, or dying of botulism, someone might just link “red tape” to keeping people alive & not broke #nzpol

Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners.

The Atlas Network has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right.

Its objective is to protect the privileges of capital owners.
#nzpol

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse

Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You could wear a mask...

Agree 💯......

Cartoon showing mRNA research on one side. An mrfk Junior research on the other one shows a scientist looking through a microscope. The other shows a blender with a dead rat and garbage all around it

Yup. By @adamdthompson.bsky.social

The Clay of Life🏺

📣 As part of the #WithoutDiversityThereIsNoFuture campaign for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the #IBE_Barcelona presents a clay jug that symbolizes diversity, inclusion, and evolution.🧵

👉https://shorturl.at/O0bUJ

Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.

Really wonderful news for a change:

Hipkins keeps saying "If you want National out, vote Labour". But what difference would it make if he's keeping most of the destructive legislation from the last three years in place anyway.

We need to do more than stop the rot. We also need to fix it. #nzpol

A CFO in renewables told me the same thing last week. developing nations are rushing to renewables because of the freedom it offers from geopolitical claptrappery. Sustainability is important but secondary motive.

An economist from Ghana told me that a bonus reason for promoting wind and solar power is that it’s much harder to use for corruption and repressive geopolitics.

Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?

Ombud strikes another blow in unlawful welfare cancellation saga DEWR, Services Australia, and individual providers all get a kick in Iain Anderson's second report on the Targeted Compliance Framework.

Another booting for DEWR and Services Australia.

#ausnews #auspol

April 21, 1978  - solar power is unfeasible (cartoon) - All Our Yesterdays Forty seven years ago, on this day, April 21st, 1978, a cartoon with a long afterlife appeared., See Snopes. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 335ppm. As of 2025 it is 427ppm, but ch...

May amuse/ be of interest

allouryesterdays.info/2025/04/20/a...

‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success 36 Months accused ban critics of being paid off by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up sponsorship deals, eyeing global expansion and coming up with its own AI tool to sell.

Cracking yarn alert. 🚨

The real origin of the teen social media ban: radio comedians and ad execs coming up with it in a single conversation.

An idea fuelled, not by experts, but kitkat and Hyundai — taken up by government wholesale.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...

Hello fellow patriots

Did you know that at 3.30pm today the govt is introducing an “undisclosed bill” which, as the title suggests, means no one knows what it is.

The opposition needs to prepare for a bill that they haven’t been told about…can someone tell me how that is democratic?

Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements.

Numerous sources tell The Saturday Paper that ministerial offices advised them to use encrypted messaging service Signal so they couldn’t be captured by departmental record-keeping systems.
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Ravenous big tech is here to feast on our resources — and its lobbying playbook is only just getting started

In its hurry to build new data centres as quickly as possible, the ravenous big tech industry is resorting to the fossil fuel industry's climate obstruction tactics, @ketanjoshi.co writes.

RMA shake-up: Māori input ‘minimal’ under new planning rules NZ’s RMA replacement centers property rights and faster development. Māori role is mostly consultative, with weak Treaty clauses and higher consent thresholds, raising settlement uncertainty.

NZ’s RMA replacement centers property rights and faster development. Māori role is mostly consultative, with weak Treaty clauses and higher consent thresholds, raising settlement uncertainty.

'Open-air asbestos waste dump exposed after bushfire at Tasmanian iron ore plant'

Reason #83967 why we do NOT want Federal EPBC powers devolved to states and territories