I was ten years old when the captain of the rainbow warrior called and said ‘the fuckers have blown up my ship, the fuckers have blown up my ship. I said ‘I’ll get Dad’. That is one of my clearest memories. Dad was meant to be on board that night but wasn’t well so stayed home.

40 years ago!

Tomororw evening some lucky person will Own this double set of “politician”lyrics kindly donated by Kora to try and stop Gold Mining on the Coromandel. Check it out here: https://t.co/vzpied1yNv

Later today this amazing musical artwork will have a new home again :) Which home will it be: https://t.co/KmV50DHEvX

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First post this year! Sorry been a bit sick. We are launching phase two of Musicans Against Mines. @David_Cormack and I have our court of appeal date for late May. Humbled to have Jon Toogood do the lyrics to Shihad’s Aotearoa Anthem Home again. It will be up on Trademe tonight.

Two years today since we lost Dad. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of him and miss him greatly. He managed to fit more than a lifetime of work for conservation and the protection of whales, dolphins and marine mammals. Off to Coro to raise a toast to him tonight.

The Golden Pohutakawa is out early this year and there looks like there are heaps of them :)

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Looking forward to seeing Coldplay again tonight. When they arrived in NZ the first time Chris asked me to organise a secret gig at Galatos for them as they were unknown and had sold 156 CD’s. Here’s a few pictures from the following few years as they grew in to a stadium band.

So miners take money from their own company ….what is to stop them doing it from every New Zealander and leaving us with nothing but toxic tailings dams that last forever?

‘Ben died because he was working in a mine that was unsafe. It was known to be unsafe, but the people that ran it saw health and safety as “red tape” that impeded their plans for profit and interfered with their control of their business’

Seven Sharp with Ben Hurley presented the Waihi gold mine story as if there is no toxic waste left over no blasting and vibration under houses/ forest and no Oceana company taking the Fast Track instead of consent with public scrutiny/ very poor effort

The problem of conflict of interest with the fast track process is fundamental. The Minister of Infrastructure is @cjsbishop. He alone gives companies access to the fast track process, which is virtually a guaranteed consent and hence worth a lot to the applicants. But he also

Good to see! The whole thing reeks. The Auditor-General is launching an inquiry into how ministers handled conflicts of interest when it came to fast-tracked projects. https://t.co/KDgtIsUt1f #nzpol

Thatcher sold the North Sea oil fields & in return we got a broken Britain & 171 billionaires. Norway kept their much smaller oil fields & today have the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world $1.4 trillion. But yeah, it's socialists that run out of other people's money.

I’ve been sorting through the attic in the garage over the long weekend. Found some beauties:

Tailings dams near Waihi could fail in a climate change supercharged cyclone or an earthquake. The devastation like that in Brazil to the Ohinemuri and Waihou rivers and the Firth of Thames/Hauraki Gulf would be catastrophic. Our worst ever environmental disaster.

Meanwhile our coalition Govt of utter chaos is inviting overseas mining companies in to our fragile spaces in Aotearoa, New Zealand!

After killing people, destroying towns and putting heavy metals everywhere the mining company today has a US$30B bill. Mining is still not safe and in mountainous areas with high rainfall like the Coromandel it is just one storm away from destruction.

Almost every problem we ausis face stems back to giving foreign corporations control over the resouces we all own and rely on in socity. Not every country makes this mistake #auspol