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 ...

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.

All sectors of our economy are affected. But some are more likely to be changing faster and deeper than others. It’s devastating. To lives, families, workers, children. A further support package from ...

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Even Mike Hosking thinks that a National-Act-NZ First coalition would be an absolute disaster By: mickysavage - 10:22 am, September 26th, 2023 - 63 comments Categories: Christopher Luxon, election ...

It has been good to see some pushback in the media questioning the wisdom of Mahuta’s FiveEyes alignment as the first public act of her tenure as our Foreign Minister. Chris Trotter writes in interest ...

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 ...

The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill is due to have its second reading in Parliament soon. It was introduced by the last Labour Government and referred to the select committee ...