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Government under FiveEyes
Written By: - Date published: 9:48 pm, June 7th, 2019 - 11 comments
Australian Federal Police chief Neil Gaughan told media after raiding the ABC that “if police did not investigate the leaking of classified information, Australia would no longer be entrusted by FiveEyes partners with intelligence that saves lives.” FiveEyes didn’t save Muslim lives in Christchurch.
Auf Wiedersehen Iraq
Written By: - Date published: 12:49 pm, May 16th, 2019 - 30 comments
The Germans and the Dutch have suspended training Iraqi soldiers citing increased tensions in the area. What do they know that Ron Mark doesn’t? Cabinet is due to make a decision shortly on our long-planned decision to withdraw, and he seems to want us to stay. Labour’s policy at the election was to withdraw, it should prevail.
The Brady Papers
Written By: - Date published: 3:03 pm, May 10th, 2019 - 54 comments
Anne-Marie Brady submitted to yesterday’s Select Committee Inquiry into foreign interference in our elections, making copious reference to her “Magic Weapons” paper of 2017. She didn’t mention another paper which casts a much different light on her independence and purpose
Watch out Iran
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, May 7th, 2019 - 57 comments
National Security Advisor John Bolton has announced that the US is sending an aircraft carrier and a bomber task force to the Middle East.
This Is Who We Really Are
Written By: - Date published: 1:05 pm, April 5th, 2019 - 146 comments
As we prepare for ANZAC Day, the Kapiti RSA has been viciously attacked for wanting to show solidarity with NZ’s Muslim community. Maggie writes about what that means and suggests who we really are.
More political interference on Huawei
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, March 13th, 2019 - 24 comments
Here’s another one for the select committee reviewing foreign interference. Visitor from Britain Charlie Parton of the Royal United Services Institute was on Morning Report this morning telling us to avoid Huawei because they are Chinese and different from us. At least he does us a favour by making it clear the matter is political not technical.
Magicked-Up Weapons
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 pm, March 11th, 2019 - 116 comments
I’m glad Anne-Marie Brady will get the chance to present her “Magic Weapons” paper to the select committee examining the last election. At long last it might get given some proper critical examination, of its content as well as it provenance. In my opinion it reads like a long list of the blindingly obvious, mixed with a large dose of conspiracy theory. It certainly doesn’t show much sign of the sort of critical thinking one might expect from an academic.
Jihadi Justice
Written By: - Date published: 1:31 pm, March 6th, 2019 - 87 comments
Should we let the ‘Bumbling Jihadi’ Mark Taylor back into NZ? What message do we send the world if we don’t?
Trump restarts Nuclear Arms race
Written By: - Date published: 7:55 am, February 8th, 2019 - 58 comments
Donald Trump has announced that the US will be withdrawing from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and Russia has also given notice. Stand by as the nuclear arms race restarts.
Trump’s brilliant strategy to dismantle US dollar hegemony
Written By: - Date published: 5:05 pm, February 3rd, 2019 - 56 comments
Polymath economist Professor Michael Hudson’s latest article is a geopolitical panoramic masterpiece, sparked by outrage at a series of concurrent events on January 31 which he predicts means that 2019 will be the “year of global fracture.” Definitely worth a read.
Spooked!
Written By: - Date published: 2:52 pm, November 29th, 2018 - 29 comments
The GCSB ban on Spark’s use of Huawei technology means this government has gone from “honest broker” to poodle in a very short time. Pressure has been applied by the US and others, apparently fearing we are the “soft underbelly” of the Five Eyes spy network. Maybe its time we got out of that too – it was designed for war.
Political interference
Written By: - Date published: 10:35 pm, November 20th, 2018 - 82 comments
China certainly has interfered in New Zealand politics, most notably by the offer of a free trade deal which delivered huge benefits to our economy. Party and government officials all stressed to us that they were grateful for New Zealand’s support for their accession to the World Trade Organisation, the rule-based trade body. The US and Australia in contrast want to build a military base on Manus Island north of Papua.
My civics – the New Zealand civil war
Written By: - Date published: 5:19 pm, November 18th, 2018 - 67 comments
While looking at a missing post on Briefing Papers, I ran across some material on deficiencies in our current education regime looking at our civil war in the 19th century. So I wrote this post about why I personally think that it matters.
Saudi Arabia and the United States
Written By: - Date published: 10:17 am, October 17th, 2018 - 21 comments
Saudi Arabia is preparing to admit that the U.S. resident and investigative reporter did indeed die in their embassy in Turkey.
Second Kremlin Killer Unmasked, Putin Untroubled
Written By: - Date published: 12:57 pm, October 9th, 2018 - 185 comments
We know the real names of the Russian spies who bungled the Salisbury novichok poisoning. Will it make a difference to the Kremlin’s plans?
Quite a day or two then!
Written By: - Date published: 6:17 pm, September 18th, 2018 - 83 comments
A quick smorgasbord of reported news from Syria, to China and Sweden, to antisemitism and (hidden behind the links) an interview with (hopefully) the first woman who will serve as President of the USA.
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“That day” in September.
Written By: - Date published: 6:14 pm, September 12th, 2018 - 6 comments
Towers bore me.
Zionism and Anti-Semitism Both Suck
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 pm, September 3rd, 2018 - 86 comments
Jeremy Corbyn has a problem. His supporters are struggling to seperate anti-Zionism from anti-racism and the Tories can’t believe their luck. UK Labour desperately need to turn around the narrative that they’re tolerant of bigotry. And in just two days, a definition is going to define Corbyn.
Propaganda Wars.
Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, August 10th, 2018 - 30 comments
No-one reading this blog would willfully offer support to an ideology that’s killing people, right?
World peace may be needed to deal with climate change
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, August 5th, 2018 - 55 comments
Imagine what we could do about climate change if there were no wars.
Trump meets Putin
Written By: - Date published: 9:03 am, July 16th, 2018 - 116 comments
Some things that President Trump won’t do as when meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
Petrol is going up, and up
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, June 30th, 2018 - 57 comments
Not all the current government’s fault, but the arrival of the fuel tax this weekend heralds a number of very sharp rises in what we have to pay in order to run a car.
And then there was….
Written By: - Date published: 12:08 pm, June 29th, 2018 - 38 comments
The aftermath of Douma chemical attacks and Skripal poisonings…
The Iraq War
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, June 25th, 2018 - 43 comments
Over the next week or two I will be doing blog posts about student politics and my time at university. Here is the first one…
The War on Carbon
Written By: - Date published: 6:02 am, June 22nd, 2018 - 50 comments
Or a conscientious objection to any War on Climate Change, or War on Global Warming.
This is a China Play
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 13th, 2018 - 36 comments
What was the game plan behind the Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting in Singapore yesterday?
Trump was right … and then …
Written By: - Date published: 7:53 am, May 17th, 2018 - 17 comments
Donald Trump has had a few months of being lucky with some luck Foreign Affairs wins and good economic news. But his wreckage-trail of his consequences is becoming longer and clearer.
No Iran Israeli War.
Written By: - Date published: 10:58 am, May 12th, 2018 - 11 comments
In spite of all the sharp intakes of breathe going on across media outlets, there will be no war between Iran and Israel. Here’s why.
Grotesque.
Written By: - Date published: 12:26 pm, April 27th, 2018 - 92 comments
People from Douma have been to The Hague and spoken of their experiences on the night of a supposed chemical attack by Syrian forces.
Anzac Day 2018
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, April 25th, 2018 - 29 comments
A post to commemorate Anzac day.
North Korea
Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, April 22nd, 2018 - 17 comments
When enemies are all around…
- NZ’s greatest ever polyethylene geomembrane installation technician author
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- The urgency to increase immunisation against whooping cough in pregnancy
Analysis: A whooping cough epidemic was declared in Aotearoa New Zealand on November 22 – only the fourth time since the disease was made notifiable in 1996 – based on reported cases (263) being higher than any previous four-week period in 2024.But what is whooping cough, what do these numbers ...2 days ago
- Public sector job losses lower than suggested – Willis
Impartiality and the impact of budget cuts dominated parliamentary discussions about the public service The post Public sector job losses lower than suggested – Willis appeared first on Newsroom. ...2 days ago
- The niggle that could trip up an India trade deal
The Prime Minister’s goal of getting a free trade deal signed with India in his first term is still looking shaky, but progress is being made.Business links in both countries are being forged, but we are still a long way from any agreement.Our Indian High Commissioner, Neeta Bhushan, appeared to ...2 days ago
- Historical revisionism on Covid threatens NZ’s pandemic preparedness
Comment: There are many important lessons to be learned from the Covid-19 response to better deal with the next pandemic, but we are unlikely to learn them if our memories of the pandemic are distorted by a refusal to acknowledge what we did well.The release of the report of the ...2 days ago
- Trump Presidency will do more harm than good to NZ – bar one tech-nicality
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- Newsroom daily quiz, Tuesday 3 December
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- ‘If this was a road accident, police would be involved’
A former colleague of a worker killed at Lyttelton Port says someone needs to be held accountable for possible negligence.Don Grant, a stevedore at the port company, died after being knocked from a ship’s observation point by a stream of coal on Anzac Day in 2022. Lyttelton Port Company, which ...2 days ago
- NZ Super is a taonga, not a burden
Opinion: A growing number of over-65s are reliant on NZ Super. In fact, 40 percent have virtually no other income and 20 percent have only a little more. Even with NZ Super as it stands, only 43 percent of New Zealanders are confident they will have a financially comfortable retirement.NZ Super ...2 days ago
- The government’s response to the royal commission into veteran suicide gets a lot right – but ma...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Heward, Lecturer, Clinical Psychology, James Cook University An average of 78 serving or ex-serving members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have died by suicide every year for the past decade. In 2021, the government announced the formal establishment of ...3 days ago - Wenda calls for West Papuan unity in the face of Jakarta’s renewed ‘colonial grip’
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- ‘Lone Soldiers’ – new Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January
Despite it being illegal in Australia to recruit soldiers for foreign armies, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) recruiters are hard at work enticing young Australians to join Israel’s army. Michael West Media investigates. INVESTIGATION: By Yaakov Aharon The Israeli war machine is in hyperdrive, and it needs new bodies to ...3 days ago
- Honeymoon Over For National, Poll Suggests
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- Only 865 redundancies across public sector – Public Service Commission
Deputy Commissioner Heather Baggot says there has been a "rapid shift" in the Commission's operating environment. ...3 days ago
- Indigenous women are dying violent, preventable deaths. Endless inquiries won’t help unless we act
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kyllie Cripps, Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University Bobbi Lockyer/Getty Recently, ...3 days ago
- Booking a summer holiday deal? Beware ‘drip pricing’ and other tactics to make you pay more than...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeannie Marie Paterson, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne wichayada suwanachun/Shutterstock Have you ever spotted what looked like a great deal on a website, added it to your “basket” and proceeded to checkout – only to find extra fees added ...3 days ago
- The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art brings us the most exciting and original art of our r...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of Art History, Griffith University Installation of Haus Yuriyal’s artwork including (front to back) Bopa, 2024, Kalabus, 2024, Kamkau Ike (Haus Toktok) 2024 with Yuriyal Bridgeman’s Yuri Alai Eagles (ceiling shield paintings) 2024 and Kuman (shield) paintings 2024. ...3 days ago
- Many people don’t measure their blood pressure properly at home – here’s how to get accurate r...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niamh Chapman, Senior Research Fellow, Hypertension and Patient Engagement, University of Sydney PhoMiljan Zivkovic/Shutterstock Measuring your blood pressure at home means you can take readings over several days to get a better picture of your health, instead of one-off measurements at ...3 days ago
- PODCAST: Conflict Expansion and Opportunism Within a Lame-Duck Window
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- All poultry exports on hold until NZ free of highly pathogenic bird flu
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- ICJ to begin hearings in landmark Pacific climate change case started by students
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- Watch: Government’s new approach for getting job seekers on benefits into work
The PM and the Social Development Minister have faced media as they reveal new plans for beneficiaries on Jobseeker support. ...3 days ago
- How can Australia actually keep young people off social media and porn sites? A new trial will test ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne DC Studio/Shutterstock When federal parliament passed legislation last week which will ban under 16s from social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese celebrated. Posting on X, ...3 days ago
- Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space
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- Cheaper housing and better transport? What you need to know about Australia’s new National Urban P...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Imagine a city where everyone can afford a safe home, reach work or school without long, stressful commutes, and enjoy green parks and clean air. This is Anthony Albanese’s decade-long vision ...3 days ago
- Watch live: Christopher Luxon speaks after this week’s Cabinet meeting
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- Privatisation by stealth: changes to education in NZ opening the door to private interests
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Nairn, Professor, College of Education, University of Otago Since taking power last year, the New Zealand government has made rapid changes to the country’s education system including the introduction of structured approaches to literacy and maths and the promotion of charter ...3 days ago
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- Six hours and 10 acts at The Others Way
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- Ministry of Defence signs $100m deal with Spanish army vehicle maker Urovesa
The NZDF has signed up for a Spanish manufacturer, Urovesa, to deliver 60 new small- and medium-sized unarmoured utility vehicles from the end of 2027. ...3 days ago
- CRL: Greater Transparency Needed For Our Largest Infrastructure Project
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- Under-16 social media ban supported by 77% as economic sentiment lifts
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A national YouGov poll, conducted November 15–21 from a sample of 1,515, had a 50–50 tie, unchanged from the previous YouGov poll ...3 days ago
- Civil society groups call on Pacific leaders to ‘take responsibility’ over Papua injustices
Asia Pacific Report Twenty five Pacific civil society organisations and solidarity movements have called on Pacific leaders of their “longstanding responsibility” to West Papua, and to urgently address the “ongoing gross human rights abuses” by Indonesia. The organisations — including the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), Fiji Council of Social ...3 days ago
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