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Showing posts with label Mike Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Smith. Show all posts
Friday, July 17, 2026

Mike's Minute: The beat-up of the week

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The beltway beat-up of the week goes to the seemingly ongoing fascination over the missing paperwork and the Prime Minister's office whe...
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Saturday, July 4, 2026

Mike's Minute: Where are the rules protecting us from legal menaces?

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  I've got a couple of questions around Mike Smith.  Mike is back in the news because of his court case against big polluters. His case ...
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Thursday, May 28, 2026

David Harvey: The Courts and Climate Change

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The Smith v Fonterra case was brought by climate change spokesperson for the Iwi Chairs Forum Michael Smith (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) against ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Mike's Minute: Not everything is a conspiracy

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Some are working pretty hard currently to buy into the Mike Smith storyline that the big end of town has the Government's ear over clima...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

John McLean: Parliament Passing Legislation Is.....Undemocratic!?

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Whacky reactions to proposed legislation extinguishing crazy climate Court cases On Tuesday 12 May, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith announce...
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Monday, May 18, 2026

Roger Partridge: An affront to democracy?

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Mike Smith, the climate activist suing six of New Zealand’s largest companies over greenhouse gas emissions, is unhappy. On Tuesday, the Gov...
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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Dr Oliver Hartwich: Absurd - NZ courts can now decide on climate change

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The World Justice Project ranks New Zealand 7th out of 142 countries on its ‘Rule of Law Index’, narrowly ahead of Australia’s 13th place. H...
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Friday, February 9, 2024

Peter Williams: Supreme Court decision astounding

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Can seven New Zealand corporates really influence global climate? Three years ago a friend of mine whose a District Court Judge asked me if ...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Chris Trotter: Nobody To Shoot.

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There's a scene in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” where an embattled dust-bowl sharecropper struggles to defend his land. He thr...
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