Our bright future with coal. Simeon Brown, Shane Jones, and Chris Bishop want to fast-track mines and motorways.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #FossilFuels #ClimateEmergency

It certainly isn't putting NZ First to offer up our precious conservation land and seabed to Aussie miners who will repatriate the spoils and leave us with the ruins of nature. #stopFastrackDestruction #nzpol

UK parliament has just banned live animal exports and Australia committed to ending live sheep exports this week as the retrograde Christopher Luxon government plans to reinstate the cruel trade #nzpol barrons.com/news/uk-law-to…

In acknowledgement of the 142 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel here is a strong article from Jonathan Cook: jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-the-medi…. The absence of any single mainstream journalist was notable at the World Press Day Palestine rally in Auckland yesterday. #nzpol

Luxon's so-called 'gold standard' live animal exports is gilded cruelty. NZ farmers are calling it out too - see the SPCA media release here...
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Robyn has always been a proud defender of people and planet...

It blows my mind that RNZ and other NZ media still report the genocide as if it was a war. It is not a war. It NEVER was. It is and always has been a bald-faced highly intentional strategy to utterly demolish Gaza and harm, injure and kill as many Palestinians as possible.

Sheesh, don’t let Shane Jones see the frog like creature at the end…

Winter grazing is cruel and polluting. Lifting restrictions is another example of Luxon’s regressive anti-environment ethos.

Lest we forgot, the reason for remembering the senseless horror of war, is to stop it happening again. Ceasefire now. In Palestine. Everywhere. #ANZAC #ceasefire

'What we've been talking about mostly is the job losses, but there's equivalent operating budget loss, & that just means DOC won't have capacity to deliver on species conservation programmes,'

'So we will likely lose species out of this.' Jo Monks
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What else can we feel but revulsion at the evil of the US who meekly say mass Palestinian graves are “troubling” in the Israeli genocide they actively support. #nzpol #FreePalesine #Genocide

Minister 'gaslighting' in response to Fast Track questions rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/…

Even fewer safeguards that Muldoon's 1979 Development Act! Cripes! Pretty scathing submission from the NZ PCE on #Fastrack #nzpol

There's no version of mining wetlands for coal that is a pathway to viable life on earth. This Christopher Luxon Government is showing itself more and more each day to be climate-denying radically anti-environmental extractors and destroyers. #nzpol

AUKUS…?!

This government is REALLY picking a fight, right?

I’m not sure they quite comprehend how much of a fight back they are in for.

Seabed mining, damming rivers, mining conservation land, poisoned drinking water, undermining Te Tiriti and democracy itself. The list goes on.
#nzpol

Once you replace evidence based decision-making with political decision-making on individual projects it is only a matter of time before a developer pays a politician to get a project approved under the #WarOnNature fast-track political consenting process.

Forest and Bird concerned over Govt Fast Track bill

'The chief executive of Forest & Bird, Nicola Toki, says three Government ministers will be given unbridled power to approve any development they want, no matter how damaging to the environment.'
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