Here in New Zealand, the government cut RNZ’s budget by $18m over four years in the last budget – that’s almost $5m a year. Now RNZ is starting to ask for voluntary redundancies when we already have ...

Australia's national broadcaster is called Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It's regularly attacked by Rupert Murdoch's Sky News & Australian broadsheet - as well as Atlas Network think ...

Iran is the weakest. If Iran falls, war in our region – intended or unintended – becomes vastly more likely. Mainstream New Zealanders and Australians suffer from an understandable complacency: war is ...

Te Pāti Māori condemns the Israeli navy’s armed interception of the Madleen, a civilian aid vessel carrying food, medical supplies, and international activists to Gaza, including Greta Thunberg.

In the absence of any political party stating clearly that public ownership of major infrastructure is a very good idea, here’s 10 good things public ownership of infrastructure does that private ...

Vicki Robin: Welcome to “What Could Possibly Go Right?”, a project of the Post Carbon Institute. We interview cultural scouts, people who see far and serve others, so that they can help us see more ...

National has engaged in more performative and calculated cruelty designed to make some poor people's lives worse and all so that the Government can feed its base.

National’s short list of candidates for the Tauranga seat has been released. And it is clear that its gender and ethnic representation problems will be made worse after the selection process is ...

The traditional mantra that the right are better economic managers than the left is in tatters following the latest half yearly Economic and Fiscal Update. As noted yesterday by Grant Robertson in ...

This debate started, back on the 5th January with the comment "It's hard to escape the conclusion that Trump intends to crash the US economy (and, as the saying goes, when the US sneezes, the world ...

Yesterday National announced its alternative to Labour’s Three Waters policy. The policy is a deep analysis of a complex problem and provides a free market alternative to an issue that will challenge ...

Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries on earth. Zelensky an ex comic/actor is playing the biggest role in his life….the Pandora papers show his pockets are…bulging. There is no democracy in ...