Andrew

Len Cook going HAAAAAARD OUT in the comments, I love that guy to bits

Select Committee Reports

NZ Parliament select committee report on banning under-16s from social media, and possibly also a ban on VPNs.

Would end online pseudonyms and harm democracy.

selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/e05a9618...

#privacy #democracy

Select Committee Reports

You can read the select committee report here:

selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/e05a9618...

Well of course they were going to go after VPNs too: the whole point is to end your privacy online, not to take action that would actually protect people and democracy.

"National deputy leader and Finance Minister Nicola Willis managed to convey the gravity of the situation in her general debate speech in Parliament yesterday. While she can see New Zealand’s economic recovery disappearing before her eyes, a recovery disrupted by the unilateral actions of a superpower over which she has no control might be the excuse she needs later in the year as the election approaches."

NZ Herald's Audrey Young says it out loud: the government will be using the Iran war as an excuse this election for why the economy hasn't done as well as they promised.

Just remember that when you see journalists and broadcasters spouting the same message (hell, Audrey will prob do it herself).

Desperately needed. Not a complete fix, but highlighting a major problem.

The company doing the drilling/geotechnical exploration for NZTA are Webster Drilling. They probably hired the helicopter, if it's not one of their own.

www.websterdrilling.com

boy that's a war crime

Bridgerton spinoff for the working classes.

NZTA chartered helicopter after dropping off equipment for geotechnical exploration for the Petone-Grenada expressway.

Lots of money being spent for a road that has no funding.

The BBC saying it doesn't care about protecting the sources of its journalists.

Police get ten extremist tip-offs a week, most white supremacy-related New Zealand Police director of national security spoke exclusively to 1News following the sentencing of a radicalised Hawke's Bay man this week.

A full half of extremist tip offs police in NZ deal with relate to white supremacy. Pākehā - check on your brothers
www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/19/p...

On the one hand, accurate (although should have listened those warning about online misogyny years ago).

On the other hand, it's in the spy agencies' interests to stoke the fire for a law banning under-16s from social media & VPNs, since this will stop the use of pseudonyms & make tracking easier

NZ spy chiefs warn of extremism risk as teenage boys dominate investigations Our national security agencies are worried about New Zealand’s young men.

In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Gavin Newsom likens Israel to ‘an apartheid state’ and decries war on Iran California governor, promoting his memoir in LA, was asked if US should rethink military partnership with Israel

Gavin Newsom likens Israel to ‘an apartheid state’
When even a 'moderate' like Newsom is calling it apartheid the tectonic plates are not moving they've moved
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Senate Republicans just voted to block our War Powers Resolution & allow Trump's regime-change war of choice in Iran. Once again, they're contracting out their constitutional duties to Donald Trump, despite the will of their constituents.

Shameful.

www.axios.com/2026/03/04/i...

maritime-executive.com/article/indi...

Energy Analysis Environment Technology Australia’s data centre lobby stumbles in its dance to avoid real regulation Google’s new data centre is entirely self-sufficient when it comes to power. Sounds like a good thing, right? Think again. Ketan Joshi Ketan Joshi Mar 4, 2026 7 min read

Hey!!! Got a new piece up at @crikey.com.au for you, about how Australia's data centre lobby is trying the subtle dance of avoiding regulation by suggesting weak voluntary actions

But something new has thrown them off balance.........

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/04/a...

ngers corporate emissions data

Emissions from Australia's biggest data centre operator are *definitely* growing. Airtrunk is the worst but everyone's on the way up. This isn't projections and possibilities, anymore.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/04/a...

New media release published on Scoop Parliament: Scrapping Census Risks Undercounting Māori And Weakening Representation - Ferris

The reason so many were pushed/forced back into in-office work was to maintain commercial property rental viability

The reason so many small shopfront businesses are closing is due to commercial property rental prices

Another outdated system bleeding the economy to death

The #FOI Amendment Bill is officially dead.

This is a victory for civil society, which has worked collectively to ensure this Bill – which would have harmed our democracy – did not become law.

Long live transparency! #auspol

Amazing public service. The journalist has an MSc in International Human Rights Law from Oxford. It shows.

Got a very quick question I hope someone can answer for me.
Do all prisons in Aotearoa New Zealand have physical access to the New Zealand Law Reports?
If not physical, electronic?
Thank you

The proteome (>7,000 circulating proteins) in people with ME/CFS exhibits immune system, vascular and metabolic dysregulation compared with controls
(and likely homologous in #LongCovid)
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests Analysis shows average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific

New sea level rise study reveals ocean levels are higher than previously believed and following a relative sea level rise of 1 metre, (increasingly likely this century) more coastal areas and millions more people than previously believed will be affected:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Again, not ‘a cycling incident’ or ‘a cycling crash’.

A person driving a car crashed their car into him and killed him.

Stop minimising the responsibility of car drivers.

Charting New Zealand's five energy futures Newsroom breaks down a major new report into New Zealand's five energy futures, from AI revolution to solar explosion.

I spent two days delving through Transpower data to understand what the grid owner and electricity system operator thinks our energy future might look like.

Here's what I found:
newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/c...

Minister says TVNZ board chair raised crime story with him Questioning over interactions with the broadcaster stems from a 1News story aired on the broadcaster's 6pm bulletin last Thursday.

'Goldsmith said he had separately contacted TVNZ journalists directly to raise concerns about the original story, which he described as something he did regularly when unhappy with coverage.

"We certainly do remonstrate and argue with journalists over stories, and we do that on a regular basis".'

Exercising your human and democratic rights to seek information from government agencies should not have a damaging effect on your ability to gain employment, but this is the state of employment practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.