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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The waka of the ACT Party is an AI hallucination. It is a piece of driftwood, also known as woke-wood, which people cling on to for dear life, and which must be dragged out of the water, chopped up ...

I was writing a long involved post about the recent budget that I may put up in the next few days. But in writing it up what struck me was the weird similarities between this Government’s budget which ...

The Coalition is treating the economy as an amateur bodybuilder. There’s a lot of pump & grunt with artificial diets and supplements trying to achieve some kind of success embodied by a dehydrated ...

I disagree..firstly 1 million people (incl the wealthy)getting a free 500 = 500million. So I applaud the cut I'm getting there. The employee contribution going up 1% then a further 1% is a tax hike in ...

Judith Collins was at her insufferable worst yesterday when she announced the Privileges Committee recommendation that Te Pati Maori MPs Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, and Rawiri ...

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 ...