No Mining In New Zealand's National Parks!

I have just finished watching a programme about the immense lengths to which dedicated people have gone to protect vulnerable populations of native birds in New Zealand. That effort is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

It's also a painful contrast with the National-led Government's plans to open up New Zealand's National Parks and other high-value conservation lands to mining.

The very fact that National launched these plans - as parts of their efforts to turn us into a tiny, ersatz Australia - ...