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Mixed reactions to Auckland light rail announcement Mixed reactions to Auckland light rail announcement Friday, April 2, 2021 RNZ The government's latest plan to get Auckland's light rail project back on track has received mixed reviews from some of those who will be affected by it. Transport Minister Michael Wood announced on Wednesday plans to establish a new working group to come up with a business case for the project. It will have six months to provide the government with information on a preferred route, as well as costings and funding options for the rapid transit sys...

Wood admitted the Ministry of Transport’s doomed twin track process, which involved competing bids from the NZTA and the NZ Super Fund-led NZ Infra proposal, was flawed. “It shut Aucklanders out of the process,” Wood said. “But today I’m drawing a line under it and including Auckland from the get go.” STUFF Transport Minister Michael Wood admits Aucklanders were left out of previous consultations over light rail through the city, and announced new engagement processes. Karen Wilson is the chairperson of the Te Ākitai Waiohua Iwi Authority. As mana whenua the iwi has long stand...

Blood On Our Hands: Local climate activists taking on big corporations It’s easy to think that the future is already fucked. Activists of New Zealand past have lived and died fighting for nuclear disarmament, environmental protections, and the return of stolen land to tangata whenua, fed up by the unjust world they saw around them. But we still face apocalyptic scenes of an uncertain future today. Young activists today are just as fed up but are keen to make a real difference.  Local groups including Extinction Rebellion, Environmental Justice Ōtepoti, Students for Environmental Action, G...

Illustration by Andrew Zbihlyj In February’s Senate trial to impeach and convict Donald Trump for the crime of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the modern GOP had one last shot at rescuing its long-battered image as a responsible governing party. It might have reclaimed something of its former standing as an honest broker in the American two-party system, committed (among other things) to the peaceful transition of power, the conduct of free and fair elections, and each federal lawmaker’s oath to uphold the Constitution. Instead, it chose, yet again, the path of ...

A Māori and Pasifika youth environmental organisation is one of the first recipients of a Jeanette Fitzsimons Climate Action Grant, announced to mark...