Here's @jacktame grilling Chris Bishop over the new fast-track process that will allow the government to override court decisions that have blocked large-scale projects for environmental reasons:
Excellent news: the fantastic Policy tool for comparing parties' ideas and plans is back for 2023. Am told it reached a startling 500,000 voters last time round. Better-informed voters = better democracy. https://t.co/rD3UPISqgJ
In voting down @EugenieSage's bill to prohibit mining on conservation land and new coal mines last night, @nzlabour is determined to establish themselves as a Party that will not prioritise the environment or climate over the status quo profits of extractive industries. #nzpol
@bernardchickey The experience of listening to submissions on the FNDC LTP where the Far North mayor at the time, Wayne Brown, was swearing (using the f-bomb) at the submitters will stay with me longer than his current tenure.
@waitarere_green Wow. So one-dimensional. Missing nurture, nature, soil protection, climate, future generations ++. Who's coming up with this blandness?
@banfield_jane I think, if it is a genuine acknowledgment of a wrong, it is better that not acknowledging it. That creates a platform for dialog and strategies for avoiding repeats which then starts repairing a relationship. But I will mull over my conditioned thoughts on your question...
@JessicaJHammond @kirsty_johnston Our banking system also, where business finance is so expensive, but "sure as houses" housing finance is so cheap. I want to see a change were banks can only consider income from housing on an investment property and not personal income.