Australia needs a national strategy that explicitly prioritises the integration of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into its defence industrial base to strengthen sovereign capability and ...

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 ...

Labour: "After nine years of National, working people’s share of the economy is falling. Less than 40 per cent of economic growth under National has gone into working people’s wages. If working people ...

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.

Fixing the election date By: r0b - 7:23 am, July 17th, 2010 - 10 comments Pundit writer and legal academic Andrew Geddis has been doing some important work on electoral law, including contributions to ...

I wonder if the recent announcement that National wants to take away voting rights from all prisoners is nothing more than a distraction from its real intent, screwing the electoral scrum by making it ...

In the spirit of John F. Kennedy seeking peace deals by humanising your enemy, and trading what you know the other side wants, a reprise to my prior post on peacemaking deals for Ukraine. The United ...

This is a Labor landslide. Australia is by a long, long way the most important country to New Zealand. Nearly a million of us live there. So this election really matters to us. Dutton lost his seat.

The point is that the Congress has abrogated its duty as a co-branch of government. They haven’t removed the damn ‘gun’ that Trump has been waving around. The ‘gun’ in this case is that Trump is that ...

Right wing twitter thought it was onto something big yesterday after there were revelations that Human Rights Commissioner Meng Foon had donated funds and cheap premises to Kiri Allan's election ...