Gil Greening
@gilgreen.bsky.social
retired scientist, kiwi in Oz - Ngunnawal Country, avatar from Iceland, aurora australis from sister in Dunedin.
Mostly just a lazy reposter.
Mostly just a lazy reposter.
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A doozy, uncovered by victim-survivor advocates Backbone Collective. Officials said if the courts found out people were at risk of family violence, the system would have to do something about it - a massive change. So they decided it was best to sweep victim-survivors, incl children, under the rug.
Officials shelved work to see how families in custody battles could be screened for domestic violence!!!
Officials shelved judge's trans-Tasman family violence probe
A top judge commissioned work to see how families in custody battles could be screened for domestic violence, but officials shelved it.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A doozy, uncovered by victim-survivor advocates Backbone Collective. Officials said if the courts found out people were at risk of family violence, the system would have to do something about it - a massive change. So they decided it was best to sweep victim-survivors, incl children, under the rug.
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Great reporting on the shysters behind the Social Media Ban by @cameronwilson.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success
36 Months accused ban critics of being paid off by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up sponsorship deals, eyeing global expansion and coming up with its own AI tool to sell.
www.crikey.com.au
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Great reporting on the shysters behind the Social Media Ban by @cameronwilson.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
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Like, look at this headline next to a picture of Peggy Burrows, a principal called out by the DPM last week. If you read the article, she hasn't done anything that's mentioned in the headline. Is thus a hit piece or what? #nzpol
December 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Like, look at this headline next to a picture of Peggy Burrows, a principal called out by the DPM last week. If you read the article, she hasn't done anything that's mentioned in the headline. Is thus a hit piece or what? #nzpol
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New column: I was not born in Timaru, even though it used to say so on Wikipedia. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
Russell Brown: Musk’s Grokipedia is a billionaire’s swipe at Wikipedia’s collaborative success
My Wikipedia entry began as a joke, but it’s Grokipedia that’s laughable.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New column: I was not born in Timaru, even though it used to say so on Wikipedia. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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Principals spending their wellbeing allowance shouldn't be news. This is a further attack on schools. Suss that Peggy Burrows specifically named. What are MPs spending? #nzpol
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Schools rapped for spending on gym memberships, yoga classes and overseas travel
The principal of a Christchurch school is defending an $18,500 trip to Queenstown for its senior leadership team, one of scores questioned by the Office of the Auditor-General for their spending.
www.thepress.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Principals spending their wellbeing allowance shouldn't be news. This is a further attack on schools. Suss that Peggy Burrows specifically named. What are MPs spending? #nzpol
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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“It’s happening in Brazil that mirrors what you’re seeing around the world. Fights over democracy, human rights & institutional power, a global pattern of industrial/political blocs pushing deregulation and weakening institutions designed to protect ecosystems.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0912202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0912202...
Days After COP30, Brazil Weakened Amazon Safeguards - Inside Climate News
Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between environmental protection and economic growth.
insideclimatenews.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“It’s happening in Brazil that mirrors what you’re seeing around the world. Fights over democracy, human rights & institutional power, a global pattern of industrial/political blocs pushing deregulation and weakening institutions designed to protect ecosystems.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0912202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0912202...
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Legislative override (potentially retrospective) in 3 … 2 … 1 …
Minister seeking advice after Supreme Court decision rules full-time carers are employees of the government
Minister seeking advice after Supreme Court decision rules full-time carers are employees of the government
Louise Upston has asked Disability Support Services to consider the Supreme Court ruling "carefully".
www.rnz.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Legislative override (potentially retrospective) in 3 … 2 … 1 …
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BONKERS!
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
BONKERS!
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
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"Across the world, newsrooms and NGOs are being shuttered or even raided by authorities, all in the name of a crusade to protect free speech. And it’s just getting started."
www.theverge.com/features/839...
www.theverge.com/features/839...
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
www.theverge.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Across the world, newsrooms and NGOs are being shuttered or even raided by authorities, all in the name of a crusade to protect free speech. And it’s just getting started."
www.theverge.com/features/839...
www.theverge.com/features/839...
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Meanwhile.
"Akaroa King Salmon products recalled over listeria risk"
"Akaroa King Salmon products recalled over listeria risk"
Akaroa King Salmon products recalled over listeria risk
The recalled salmon products were sold in Christchurch and Dunedin.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Meanwhile.
"Akaroa King Salmon products recalled over listeria risk"
"Akaroa King Salmon products recalled over listeria risk"
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One day, when people are living once again in leaky homes, or dying of botulism, someone might just link “red tape” to keeping people alive & not broke #nzpol
New government rules coming for micro-abattoirs; homekill for sale in pipeline
New government rules coming for micro-abattoirs; homekill for sale in pipeline
The government is looking to cut red tape for small meat processors and is also exploring how homekill meat could be made suitable for sale.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
One day, when people are living once again in leaky homes, or dying of botulism, someone might just link “red tape” to keeping people alive & not broke #nzpol
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The Atlas Network has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right.
Its objective is to protect the privileges of capital owners.
#nzpol
Its objective is to protect the privileges of capital owners.
#nzpol
Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism
The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners.
progressive.international
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Atlas Network has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right.
Its objective is to protect the privileges of capital owners.
#nzpol
Its objective is to protect the privileges of capital owners.
#nzpol
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Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Clay of Life🏺
📣 As part of the #WithoutDiversityThereIsNoFuture campaign for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the #IBE_Barcelona presents a clay jug that symbolizes diversity, inclusion, and evolution.🧵
👉https://shorturl.at/O0bUJ
📣 As part of the #WithoutDiversityThereIsNoFuture campaign for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the #IBE_Barcelona presents a clay jug that symbolizes diversity, inclusion, and evolution.🧵
👉https://shorturl.at/O0bUJ
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The Clay of Life🏺
📣 As part of the #WithoutDiversityThereIsNoFuture campaign for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the #IBE_Barcelona presents a clay jug that symbolizes diversity, inclusion, and evolution.🧵
👉https://shorturl.at/O0bUJ
📣 As part of the #WithoutDiversityThereIsNoFuture campaign for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the #IBE_Barcelona presents a clay jug that symbolizes diversity, inclusion, and evolution.🧵
👉https://shorturl.at/O0bUJ
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Really wonderful news for a change:
Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Really wonderful news for a change:
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Hipkins keeps saying "If you want National out, vote Labour". But what difference would it make if he's keeping most of the destructive legislation from the last three years in place anyway.
We need to do more than stop the rot. We also need to fix it. #nzpol
We need to do more than stop the rot. We also need to fix it. #nzpol
If Hipkins is not going to repeal all the shit legislation the CoC is ramming through, what is the point of him??? #NZPol
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Hipkins keeps saying "If you want National out, vote Labour". But what difference would it make if he's keeping most of the destructive legislation from the last three years in place anyway.
We need to do more than stop the rot. We also need to fix it. #nzpol
We need to do more than stop the rot. We also need to fix it. #nzpol
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A CFO in renewables told me the same thing last week. developing nations are rushing to renewables because of the freedom it offers from geopolitical claptrappery. Sustainability is important but secondary motive.
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A CFO in renewables told me the same thing last week. developing nations are rushing to renewables because of the freedom it offers from geopolitical claptrappery. Sustainability is important but secondary motive.
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An economist from Ghana told me that a bonus reason for promoting wind and solar power is that it’s much harder to use for corruption and repressive geopolitics.
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
An economist from Ghana told me that a bonus reason for promoting wind and solar power is that it’s much harder to use for corruption and repressive geopolitics.
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
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Cracking yarn alert. 🚨
The real origin of the teen social media ban: radio comedians and ad execs coming up with it in a single conversation.
An idea fuelled, not by experts, but kitkat and Hyundai — taken up by government wholesale.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
The real origin of the teen social media ban: radio comedians and ad execs coming up with it in a single conversation.
An idea fuelled, not by experts, but kitkat and Hyundai — taken up by government wholesale.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success
36 Months accused ban critics of being paid off by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up sponsorship deals, eyeing global expansion and coming up with its own AI tool to sell.
www.crikey.com.au
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Cracking yarn alert. 🚨
The real origin of the teen social media ban: radio comedians and ad execs coming up with it in a single conversation.
An idea fuelled, not by experts, but kitkat and Hyundai — taken up by government wholesale.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
The real origin of the teen social media ban: radio comedians and ad execs coming up with it in a single conversation.
An idea fuelled, not by experts, but kitkat and Hyundai — taken up by government wholesale.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/3...
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Hello fellow patriots
Did you know that at 3.30pm today the govt is introducing an “undisclosed bill” which, as the title suggests, means no one knows what it is.
The opposition needs to prepare for a bill that they haven’t been told about…can someone tell me how that is democratic?
Did you know that at 3.30pm today the govt is introducing an “undisclosed bill” which, as the title suggests, means no one knows what it is.
The opposition needs to prepare for a bill that they haven’t been told about…can someone tell me how that is democratic?
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hello fellow patriots
Did you know that at 3.30pm today the govt is introducing an “undisclosed bill” which, as the title suggests, means no one knows what it is.
The opposition needs to prepare for a bill that they haven’t been told about…can someone tell me how that is democratic?
Did you know that at 3.30pm today the govt is introducing an “undisclosed bill” which, as the title suggests, means no one knows what it is.
The opposition needs to prepare for a bill that they haven’t been told about…can someone tell me how that is democratic?
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Numerous sources tell The Saturday Paper that ministerial offices advised them to use encrypted messaging service Signal so they couldn’t be captured by departmental record-keeping systems.
satpa.pe/TJ9TbXc
satpa.pe/TJ9TbXc
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements.
satpa.pe
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Numerous sources tell The Saturday Paper that ministerial offices advised them to use encrypted messaging service Signal so they couldn’t be captured by departmental record-keeping systems.
satpa.pe/TJ9TbXc
satpa.pe/TJ9TbXc