1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) is approved and labelled as a “deadly poison”. In 2007 its re-approval by ERMA was limited to targeting possums. Rats, mast years and mega masts were not identified as a problem until recently. ERMA approved 1080 use but only where there was social licence, after consultation with affected communities, and only in…
Month: October 2019

Let’s Have an URGENT Moratorium and NZ Inquiry into 5G
Let’s have a moratorium until we can have an inquiry into 5G, and let’s have it now, before yet another public resource, microwave spectrum bandwidths, is allocated to multinationals. The Australian public and the great work by Ray Broomhall and others, plus a few public interest focused MPs have forced an inquiry into 5G there….
Concerned voices on 5G
https://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/sue-grey-robin-kelly-nzers-awakening-to-the-implications-of-5g-as-grandparents-become-involved Thank you Tim Lynch, Dr Robin Kelly and the Green Planet team for helping share our voices and concerns about the way 5G is being imposed on us, …. There is a quickening across New Zealand that is quite unprecedented as ordinary citizens become aware of the problematic health effects of 5G. It is…

Stop Poisoning our Wildlife
The long awaited Shark Cage Diving decision was released by the NZ Supreme Court last week. This was great news for Bluff and it’s shark cage divers Shark Experience Ltd as they are back in business when the Great Whites arrive in December as part of their annual migration. The court clarified the meaning of…
Shark Cage Diving. Supreme Court Decision.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND
I TE KŌTI MANA NUI
SC 86/2018
[2019] NZSC 111
BETWEEN
SHARK EXPERIENCE LIMITED
Appellant
AND
PAUAMAC5 INCORPORATED
First Respondent ATTORNEY-GENERAL Second Respondent SHARK DIVE NEW ZEALAND LIMITED Third Respondent
Hearing:
26 March 2019
Court:
Winkelmann CJ, William Young, Glazebrook, O’Regan and Ellen France JJ
Counsel:
S J Grey and S P H Elliott for Appellant B A Scott and S R Roberts for First Respondent J M Prebble and D J Watson for Second Respondent
Judgment:
11 October 2019

What do guns, poisons, medicinal cannabis and 5G all have in common
I’ve only recently become interested in the gun law reforms. I used to think that guns were dangerous and the less the better. However after witnessing the positive energy at the Sika show, acting for diverse interests promoting public good law reform and undertaking some research on gun related issues, I’ve realised that the government’s…