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On NRT: Schools belong in the OIA - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/schools-belong-in-oia.html

Schools belong in the OIA

For the past decade, successive governments have been chipping away at the Official Information Act, exempting agencies and passing secrecy ...

Idiot/Savant 2d ago

On NRT: Climate Change: Madness - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/climate-change-madness.html

Climate Change: Madness

Over the last few days Wellington has been hammered by torrential rain and floods, and one person is still missing dead. So naturally its t...

Idiot/Savant 4d ago

On NRT: Climate Change: The new normal - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/climate-change-new-normal.html

Climate Change: The new normal

I'm sitting here in Palmerston North (where it is raining), watching the reports of the rain and flooding from Wellington . Water flooding d...

Idiot/Savant 4d ago

On NRT: More racism from National - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/more-racism-from-national.html

More racism from National

When National voted down its own Treaty Principles Bill last year , they claimed it was because they understood that "seek[ing] to impose a ...

Idiot/Savant Apr 16

On NRT: Climate Change: The latest inventory - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/climate-change-latest-inventory.html

Climate Change: The latest inventory

Ministry for the Environment has released New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2024 , which has updated emissions figures. The bad ne...

Idiot/Savant Apr 15

On NRT: Strengthening proactive release - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/strengthening-proactive-release.html

Strengthening proactive release

Newsroom has an opinion piece by Marcus Ganley, on the problems of proactive release of official information . The government releases vast...

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Idiot/Savant Apr 14

Weird things: no-one's advancement triggers activated, so no-one got XP (which doesn't really matter). And things went smoothly because they generally succeeded: no-one rolled a miss, and there were only two partials. And yet, it was naratively satisfying: the team demonstrated competence.

Idiot/Savant Apr 14

Tonight, on #UnchartedWorlds : having made their way to the ruined alien archive in the restricted military training area, the team carefully extracts the alien "books" they were looking for (containing engineering diagrams of the Precursor artefacts recovered by an ancient civlisation), and then escapes. There was nearly a hitch, with running into a patrol on the way out, but they successfully distracted them and made their escape. Success!

Idiot/Savant Apr 13

On NRT: A victory for democracy in Hungary - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-victory-for-democracy-in-hungary.html

A victory for democracy in Hungary

Hungarians went to the polls yesterday in parliamentary elections, and responded with a resounding "Ruszkik Haza!" , telling Putin (and Tru...

Idiot/Savant Apr 9

On NRT: Crown solicitors deserve scrutiny - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/crown-solicitors-deserve-scrutiny.html

Crown solicitors deserve scrutiny

Graeme Edgeler had an interesting piece the other day advocating for crown solicitors to be subject to the Official Information Act . Unique...

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