Written By: - Date published: 9:38 am, May 24th, 2025 - 2 comments
We don’t know where this country is going and it’s getting worse.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, May 12th, 2025 - 45 comments
New Zealand was once in a sustained Australasian partnership. Now, with New Zealand tracking further and further into policy extremes, Australia – and our children – are leaving New Zealand behind.
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, May 4th, 2025 - 13 comments
In a bargain of the damned the United States and Ukraine have signed a peace agreement to share revenues from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.
Written By: - Date published: 8:18 am, May 4th, 2025 - 39 comments
In yesterday’s election there was lot to cheer about. Labor won a landslide election. And Coalition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat.
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 29th, 2025 - 29 comments
ANZAC Day 2025 is just so dark in the face of a hot war in the Ukraine, and the real lack of commanding peacemakers left on this earth.
Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, April 22nd, 2025 - 10 comments
“Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change. The system has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”
Written By: - Date published: 8:05 am, April 6th, 2025 - 68 comments
All the fools supporting hard right political leadership will now be reminded of what they signed up for.
Written By: - Date published: 1:43 pm, April 3rd, 2025 - 52 comments
While 10% is at the lower end of this unjustified tax, it is very serious for our whole NZ economy.
Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, March 22nd, 2025 - 14 comments
We’re good, but we know we want better leadership.
Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, March 14th, 2025 - 46 comments
Luxon’s team have delivered zero deals out of the multibillionaire conference on infrastructure. This is a fail.
Written By: - Date published: 12:23 pm, March 9th, 2025 - 17 comments
The United States of America is in full territorial expansion mode and there is little that anyone can do about it.
Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, February 20th, 2025 - 68 comments
Trump’s opening bid for peace towards Ukraine was that the United States would gain access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals.
Written By: - Date published: 1:05 pm, January 26th, 2025 - 56 comments
It’s time to highlight what a Labour plan for the New Zealand economy under a 2026 government would look like. And ask questions.
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, January 24th, 2025 - 22 comments
The PM’s ‘State of the Nation’ speech about the New Zealand economy titled “economic growth the key to better days ahead” was a bag of words with no plan.
Written By: - Date published: 8:38 am, January 14th, 2025 - 37 comments
In the past two decades, election results in western Europe, Australasia, and North America have been framed as a crisis of the left. But in reality are things that bad?
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, January 11th, 2025 - 33 comments
It’s common these days to see the rapid 2024 exit of multiple global social democrat leaders as just a post-COVID symptom of democratic impatience. But Biden achieved far more than his age-related decline obscures.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, January 10th, 2025 - 18 comments
While he scoops up behind Minister Willis’s Cook Strait ferry disaster, he’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and our primary lead on the rise of President Trump and boy does he have a job ahead of him.
Written By: - Date published: 6:04 pm, January 5th, 2025 - 23 comments
U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump makes more things possible in the Middle East than the Biden administration.
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, December 2nd, 2024 - 29 comments
New Zealand is one of the slowest countries in the developed world to transition from combustion to electric vehicles. The shocks we are seeing in Europe to car makers and car buyers herald more trouble ahead.
Written By: - Date published: 8:53 pm, November 20th, 2024 - 14 comments
2024 is the worst-ever year for our forest export industry as a whole, with most of our largest sawmills closing and the loss of hundreds of jobs.
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, September 23rd, 2024 - 68 comments
New Zealand has the most right wing government it’s had since Governor George Grey determined to eradicate all Maori power by systematic war and then systematic legislative theft in 1863. But the left shows no sign of unifying.
Written By: - Date published: 10:19 am, September 9th, 2024 - 70 comments
Proposed policy for the Labour Party. New Zealand’s power system should empower the people in their lives and systems, secure electricity use and production for New Zealand in perpetuity, and make the electricity system serve New Zealand not the other way round. How do we achieve this?
Written By: - Date published: 4:08 pm, September 2nd, 2024 - 44 comments
Yes, Labour can restore its woeful tax position.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, August 27th, 2024 - 17 comments
We are in a power crisis and the government has had to respond, but will their response make any difference?
Written By: - Date published: 9:01 am, August 26th, 2024 - 48 comments
It won’t come from the working class. But we know where it will come from.
Written By: - Date published: 9:29 am, August 18th, 2024 - 21 comments
It is well time the Prime Minister set out how it is in our interests to move against China by buying into AUKUS.
Written By: - Date published: 9:53 am, August 10th, 2024 - 157 comments
The Olympics are a real persistent problem for gender essentialists.
Written By: - Date published: 8:36 am, August 7th, 2024 - 18 comments
Israel’s failure to solve its own problems, its weakening democratic institutions, fraying civil patience, massive wastage of global patience and U.S. aid, and inability to plan for civic success following military conflict, point to a country in very serious trouble with no apparent way out.
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, August 4th, 2024 - 26 comments
In 2024 we ought to ask if the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s has delivered on what was promised.
Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, June 25th, 2024 - 27 comments
Last week Northland had a power pylon simply fall down on a still day. 100,000 properties lost power. Quickly restored, it underscored how vulnerable the Far North is.
Written By: - Date published: 4:24 pm, June 22nd, 2024 - 67 comments
The grounding of the ferry Aratere is potentially a political gift to National.
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