Senior Political Reporter at newsroom.co.nz covering climate change, health, energy and violent extremism | He/him ✡️
Marc Daalder
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We need to think deeper: why is this unacceptable for a 17 year old but acceptable for an 18 year old - or a 57 year old?
Age controls are not the real problem.
Insulation and heat pump installers say they’re seeing more energy hardship than ever before, even as the Government claims $8.5 million on savings from the Warmer Kiwi Homes programme in last month’s Budget.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/08/g...
A long read but a good one:
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
The Government has dismantled a New Plymouth research and development centre set up by Labour to investigate new energy sources and help Taranaki transition away from oil and gas.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/02/t...
Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud
I was in Tiananmen Square in 1988, a year before the democracy movement, as a 10yo diaspora tourist with my family. What happened the following year hit very very deep for us, 10,000km away. Sometimes I feel completely pinned by the Shi Tao line - 'My whole life will never get past June'.
Marc Daalder
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Paul Bernal
The Ara Ake energy centre was set up to assist Taranaki with transitioning away from oil and gas, but funding was cut last week
Government lawyers told Winston Peters that NZ would still make its own decisions under updated WHO rules, but he insisted the changes put sovereignty at stake and rejected them.
My report:
newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/03/f...
Couldn’t quite squeeze this observation into the piece, but there’s something odd and maybe revealing about this phrasing. “Your elections in this country…. Your elections are crooked.” Like at some level Trump views himself as an occupier. www.offmessage.net/p/confront-t...
Marc Daalder
Let's not just roll our eyes and hope for the best again.
This is unacceptable.
Is a 17 year old boy being pushed to watch antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish people after just 11 minutes what Meta considers to be age-appropriate?
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Melanie Ward MP
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
Paywall now lifted: The Government has dismantled a New Plymouth research and development centre set up by Labour to investigate new energy sources and help Taranaki transition away from oil and gas.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/02/t...
Breaking: The Ministry of Social Development will receive broad powers to let computers make decisions as part of a bill being rushed through Parliament.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/29/5...
The Ara Ake energy centre was set up to assist Taranaki with transitioning away from oil and gas, but funding was cut last week
