Even if political violence worked, it would still be wrong. The efficacy of violence is not the issue. You don’t need to construct some kind of utilitarian rationale for why you think murder is wrong.
11.09.2025 01:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Explainer on the UK Gender Case
What was and wasn't decided and what (if anything) might it mean for NZ?
A short and balanced explainer on what the UK decided and while it's neither earth-shattering nor insignificant and what impact (if any) it might have on the question here. Link in replies. thebluereview.substack.com/p/explainer-...
17.04.2025 05:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Seymour versus Jackson
Just who would emerge as the master debater?
An actual, structured, Lincoln-Douglas style debate between Seymour and Jackson would be awesome. Especially if the format kept them at arm's length and the moderator was just a neutral referee. But it will never happen.
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29.11.2024 06:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Apology accepted.
26.11.2024 04:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Legal versus historical fictions
One proposed adjustment to make the Treaty Principles Bill a bit more honest
The treaty principles bill is worse than the treaty principles deletion bill. Why? Because it has the whiff of a Soviet-like attempt to codify revisionist history into law. If we’re going to create legal fictions, we should be transparent about it. thebluereview.substack.com/p/legal-vers...
25.11.2024 23:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crime in Antarctica is very rare, but not unheard of. At Russia’s Vostok Station, a heated argument in 1959 over a chess game led one scientist to attack another with an ice axe. This incident reportedly resulted in a ban on chess at Russian Antarctic stations.
21.11.2024 08:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
(For example, McMurdo Station (run by the U.S.) uses New Zealand Standard Time because flights to Antarctica depart from New Zealand).
20.11.2024 19:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Antarctica has no official time zones. Since the continent sits at the South Pole, where all lines of longitude converge every time zone applies. In practice, research stations follow the time zones of their home countries or the supply routes they depend on.
20.11.2024 19:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Antarctica operates under a unique legal regime where scientists and visitors follow the laws of their home country or the country that organised their expedition. This means that theoretically, if someone commits a crime in Antarctica, they are prosecuted according to the laws of their own country.
20.11.2024 00:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Zealand was one of the original signatories of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959! The treaty established Antarctica as a peaceful, scientific preserve, banning military activity on the continent.
14.11.2024 18:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
New Zealand exercises its authority over the Ross Dependency through the Antarctic (Environmental Protection) Act 1994 and the Antarctica Act 1960.
24.03.2024 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Claimed by New Zealand, the Ross Dependency is administered by the New Zealand Antarctic Division within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The basis of New Zealand’s claim was the transfer by the UK of its territorial rights in 1923.
23.03.2024 06:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Despite the significant overlap and extension of New Zealand laws to Antarctica, particularly the Ross Dependency, it is crucial to understand that these laws form a separate body of law.
29.10.2023 22:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The laws of the Ross Dependency are essentially NZ laws applicable to the conditions of the Dependency. This is one distinct category of our law extended to Antarctica. Another is that for criminal law purposes, acts or omissions occurring in the Ross Dependency are deemed to have happened in NZ
29.10.2023 22:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
With that treaty, New Zealand law extended directly to activities in the Ross Dependency and the activities of New Zealanders in Antarctica. Subsequently (and gradually) the term "New Zealand" in legislation expanded to include the Ross Dependency.
29.10.2023 22:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Ross Dependency, an area of Antarctica, is under New Zealand's jurisdiction according to an Imperial Order in Council from 1923. Nevertheless, the laws of New Zealand and of the Ross Dependency were distinct for many years. This changed with the Antarctic Treaty in 1959.
29.10.2023 22:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
DIRA ensures that farmers can enter and exit supply arrangements with Fonterra without penalty. Fonterra requires farmers to hold shares proportional to their milk supply. Non-farmers can invest in Fonterra through the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund.
25.10.2023 20:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In 2001, many small co-operative companies conglomerated into a national co-operative, Fonterra, now accounting for around 7% of the GDP and 96% of the NZ raw milk market. The Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 (DIRA) was enacted alongside to regulate Fonterra's activities.
25.10.2023 20:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NBDTs are regulated by the Reserve Bank under the Non-Bank Deposit Takers Act 2013. This Act requires that every NBDT be licensed and comply with certain prudential rules.
25.10.2023 03:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 In 2008, NZ decided to establish an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) as its primary domestic mechanism for climate change mitigation, leading to a major expansion of the CCRA. The ETS creates surrender obligations for emitters and incentives for emissions reduction.
25.10.2023 01:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📊 The CCRA also established an "Inventory Agency" which estimates NZ's annual human-induced emissions and prepares reports in line with international obligations. This is a key part of tracking and managing our environmental impact! #ClimateChange
25.10.2023 01:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
